As always this crypto space moves fast 🚀 and so this is a work in progress 🚧
The course website is hosted on Canvas (https://canvas.aut.ac.nz/courses/17343), however you need to be an enrolled student to login. This site serves as the open-source version. (You will still need to login to Canvas to view the assessment criteria and particiapate in the course discussion.)
Lectures are Fridays 14:10-16:00 in WF702 beginning March 01, 2024. They may be recorded with links posted at the end of the notes.
This is the Graduate Level 🎓 version of COMP726, and as such has more detail, less in-class time (no tutorials), and overall adjusted expectations with respect to the quality and output of coursework. You may find some of the undergraduate tutorials helpful, although we won't be updating them.
- Money & Bitcoin
- Cryptography
- Consensus Part I: Proof of Work
- Consensus Part II: Proof of Stake & Alternatives
- Scaling
- Wallets & Tokens
- Ethereum
- Privacy & Presentation Check-point
- Security & Technical Check-point
- Digital Assets
- Web3
- The Return to Money
- Course Discussion forum (you also earn participation credit here)
- ChatGPT - Get an account!
(Open Source only, of course [and I hesitate to include Coursera links])
- Cryptocurrency Engineering And Design (MIT)
- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (Princeton)
- CS251: Blockchain Technologies (Stanford)
- EE374: Scaling Blockchains (Stanford)
- Foundations of Blockchains (Columbia)
- META511MC: NFTs and the Metaverse (Nicosia)
- Resistance Money (Wyoming)
- RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub (Melbourne)
- Decentralized Systems Lab (Illinois)
- digital currency initiative (MIT)
- UZH Blockchain Center (Zurich)
- ETH Blockchain Initiative (ETH Zurich)
- UNIC Blockchain (Nicosia)
Notice something that doesn't seem right? Could be explained better? Have an analogy that helps with your understanding? Want to include something new that I've missed? Feel free to fork and submit a pull-request.
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