Complex full-fledged University-grade course for Computer Science classes focused on in-depth understanding of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology lectured at Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies at Slovak University of Technology by David Stancel, MSc. of CoinStory and Kristian Kostal,Phd.
The creation of this course has been supported by Ernst&Young - Thank you!
Feel free to use anything for whatever purpose as long as you attribute credits appopriately. Everyone is also welcomed to send comments, inquires and proposals of topics, and resources to include into the course at david@coinstory.tech.
Updated slides will be linked here throughout 2021.
Inspired by Courses:
1.Introduction to Digital Currencies at University of Nicosia as well as the whole MSc. Program
2.Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies at Princeton University
Based on Books:
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A. Antonopoulos - Mastering Bitcoin available for free on Github or at Amazon
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A. Antonopoulos - Mastering Ethereum (available for free on Github), or at Amazon
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A. Narayanan, J. Bonneau, E. Felten, A. Miller, S. Goldfeder - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (available for free) or at Amazon
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P. Kravchenko - Blockchain and Decentralized Systems
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SerHack & Monero Community - Mastering Monero (available for free) or at Amazon
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Darren Lau, Daryl Lau, T. Sze Jin, K. Kho, E. Azmi, TM Lee, B. Ong -- How to DeFi (available for free)
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Kurt M. Alonso, Sarang Noether, Koe - Zero to Monero (available for free)
Further Recommedned Reading:
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A. Antonopoulos, O. Osuntokun, R- Pickhardt - Mastering Lightning Network (available for free on Github)
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J. Song - Programming Bitcoin (avaialble fore free on Github) or at Amazon
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D. Boneh, V.Shoup - Applied Cryptography (available for free)
- History and emergence of digital currencies - Digicash, Bitgold, B-money,Hashcash, RPOW, E-gold ..
- Fundamental technology stack
- Emergence of Bitcoin
- Main principles and definitions
A. Back - Hashcash
N. Szabo - Bitgold
W. Dai - B-money
S. Nakamoto - Bitcoin Whitepaper
H. Finney - RPOW
Lamport, Shostak, Peace - The Byzantine General Problem
Optional:
Diffie, Hellman - New Directions in Cryptogprahy
D. Chaum - Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payment
S. Haber, S. Stornetta - How to Timestamp a Digital Document
D. Chaum - Dinning Cryptographers Problem
Live Examples: - http://www.datnos.com/bc-demos/public-private-keys/keys.html - https://gugger.guru/blockchain-demo/#!/blockchain - https://blockchaindemo.io
- Bitcoin protocol specifications
- Transactions - UTXO model, data structures
- Proof-of-Work Consensus Mechanism
- Bitcoin Script
Mastering Bitcoin - Chapters 2 and 6
Bitcoin Script Guide by Blockgeeks
Bitcoin Resources by Jameson Lopp
3D Blockchain Explorer Symphony by IOHK
- Mining & Consensus Mechanisms,
- Bitcoin Core
- Nodes
Reading & Resources:
Mastering Bitcoin - Chapters 3 and 10
- Ethereum protocol specifications
- Smart contracts (ERC standards)
- Alternative smart contract platforms
- UTXO vs Account Based Model
Mastering Ethereum - Chapters 5,6,7 and 12
Ethereum 2.0. Overview by ChainSafe
All writings of Vitalik Buterin at one place
- Syntax, Tools
- Programming decentralized applicatins
Building Ethereum Dapps - Roberto Infante - Chapters 4,5,6, and 8
Comparison ERC20 vs ERC223 vs ERC777
CryptoZombies - learning Solidity
- Introduction to Altcoins
- Basic Differences
- Comparison of selected altcoins in terms of technology - Monero, Zcash, Decred, Pivx ...
- Smart Contract Platforms: Cardano, Cosmos, Avalanche, Polkadot, Near
- Tokenisation as a phenomenom
Mastering Blockchain - Imran Bashir - Chapter 15
Mastering Monero - Chapter 3
- Bitcoin and Ethereum scaling techniques
- Lightning Network - main principles, and overview of implementations
- Plasma, State Channels - main principles, and overview of implementations
Beginners Guide to Lightning Network: https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-lightning-network
History of Lightning Network by Bitcoin Magazine
Making Sense of Ethereum Layer 2 (Medium)
The State of Optimistic Rollups (Medium)
FYI
Running LN on Raspberry Pi - Guide
- Types of Wallets, Seeds and archiving
- Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Tools
- Attack vectors - 51% attack, Selfish Mining, Time Jacking, Eclipse attack, Flood attack, Sybil attacks ...
- Anonymity and privacy techniques
Hypotehtical Cryptocurrency Attacks
Application of Zeroknowledge proofs in Blockchain (Medium)
Staying Anonymous on Ethereum - Tornado Cash)
Breaking MimbleWimble Privacy Model
Zeroknowledge-proofs - Intro, comparisons
Zeroknowledge Starter Pack by Eth Research
How to Run BTC node over TOR - Guide
- Blockchain Consortia - overview adn technologies
- Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, Hyperledger, Qorum
- EY - Nightfall, Baseline
Enterprise Blockchain Protocols Overview
Enterprise Blockchain Resources by ConsenSys
Baseline Protocol by EY, Microsoft & ConsenSys
- Overview of different blockchain usecases and applicaitons
- Public sector usecases, Supply Chain, Finance, Timestamping
- NOnf-ungible tokens
- DeFi - MakerDAO & DAI, Decentralized Exchanges, Lending, Derivatives, Insurance, Aggregators
How to DeFi Book chapters 6 and 7
- Cosmos, Polkadot
- Homogenous vs. heterogenous
- different categorization of blockchain interoperability
Blockchian Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends
- Legal Challenges of Smart Contracts & Dapps & DAOs
- Legal and Economic Aspects of Cryptocurrencies - KYC, AML, MiCA
- ICOs, STOs, IEOs, Airdrops, CBDCs
University of Cambridge - 2nd Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study
- Introduciton to DeFi
- MakerDAO & DAI
- Decentralized Exchanges, Lending, Derivatives, Insurance, Fund Management, Lottery
- Uniswap, Compound, Synthetix, Opyn, TokenSets, PoolTogether