Annotation
The subject introduces students to the issues surrounding blockchain and its fundamental aspects, specifically community management, security, monetary systems, and ecology. The goal is to familiarize students with the historical development of this technology up to the present, enabling them to understand on their own the purpose and potential applications in various industries.
The completion requirements for the course
To fulfill the requirements of the course, it is necessary to attend and pass the final exam.
Week 1
- Cypherpunk
- Asymmetric cryptography
- Cryptoanarchy
- Surveillance
- Attempts at freedom money
Week 2
Money and its history from ancient times to the present.
Week 3
Bitcoin oriented
- Genesis block
- Transaction
- Merkle tree
- Sha256
- Byzantine General Problem
- Proof of Work
- Inflation
- Anonymity
Week 4
Bitcoin oriented
- Mining
- Hard Forks
- Soft Fork
- Bitcoin addresses
- Shnorr signatures
- Taproot
Week 5
Altcoin oriented
- Proof of Stake
- Vectors of attack
- Tokenomics
- Examples
Week 6
Bitcoin oriented
- Philosophy of abstraction layers
- Scaling
- Types of layers
- Lightning network
- Liquid
Week 7
Continuation
- RGB
- Smart contracts
- Storm
- Eltoo
Week 8
Trading and speculations
- Time preferences
- Volatility
- Crypto seasons
- Graphs
- Scams
- Strategies
- Staking
Week 9
Trends
- ICO
- Airdrops
- Tokenization
- Aidrops
- dApps
- DAO
- DEX
- DeFi
- NFT
- Memes
Week 10
DAOs indepth
- Decentralized communities
- Governance
- Examples
Week 11
Presentation of my project – Agora, a tool for building decentralized, modular and interoperable platforms for users to connect share and govern their communities collectively.
PS the lessons tend to take longer then 1,5h :).
Credits 3
Frequency every Monday