In dieser Lehrveranstaltung werden wir uns mit den Technologien, der Geschichte und den Anwendungen von Kryptowährungen und Blockchain beschäftigen.
Literatur
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction, by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder
Syllabus:
17.10.2019: Introduction, history, ledger, Satoshi Nakamoto
24.10.2019: Cryptographic basics: cryptographic hashing
07.11.2019: Cryptographic basics: digital signatures
Simple cryptocurrency coins: GoofyCoin and ScroogeCoin
Ledger vs. Blockchain (Chap. 3.1), Bitcoin and Ethereum P2P network, distributed consensus
14.11.2019 Consensus, operation of mining, probabilistics of mining, difficulty (Chap. 2),
numbers in today's systems, mining pools (5.4)
21.11.2019 Bitcoin mechanics, types of transactions (Chap. 3)
05.12.2019 Bitcoin mining, mining pools (Chap. 5)
12.12.2019 Bitcoin anonymity, mixing services, zero coin, zero cash (Chap. 6)
10.01.2020 Bitcoin community, legal aspects (Chap. 7)
17.01.2019 Alternative mining, Altcoins (Chap. 8, 9)