你将学到什么
Bitcoin Network
Blockchains
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin
课程概况
To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. We’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin, such as:
How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold?
After this course, you’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able to integrate ideas from Bitcoin in your own projects.
Course Lecturers:
Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.
课程大纲
周1
完成时间为 4 小时
Introduction to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
Learn about cryptographic building blocks ("primitives") and reason about their security. Work through how these primitives can be used to
construct simple cryptocurrencies.
6 个视频 （总计 59 分钟）, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个测验
周2
完成时间为 1 小时
How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
Learn Bitcoin's consensus mechanism and reason about its security. Appreciate how security comes from a combination of technical methods
and clever incentive engineering.
5 个视频 （总计 74 分钟）
周3
完成时间为 1 小时
Mechanics of Bitcoin
Learn how the individual components of the Bitcoin protocol make the whole system tick: transactions, script, blocks, and the peer-to-peer
network.
6 个视频 （总计 78 分钟）
周4
完成时间为 4 小时
How to Store and Use Bitcoins
This week we'll explore how using Bitcoins works in practice: different ways of storing Bitcoin keys, security measures, and various types of
services that allow you to trade and transact with bitcoins.
7 个视频 （总计 81 分钟）, 1 个测验
周5
完成时间为 1 小时
Bitcoin Mining
We already know that Bitcoin relies crucially on mining. But who are the miners? How did they get into this? How do they operate? What's the
business model like for miners? What impact do they have on the environment?
5 个视频 （总计 86 分钟）
周6
完成时间为 2 小时
Bitcoin and Anonymity
Is Bitcoin anonymous? What does that statement even mean—can we define it rigorously? We'll learn about the various ways to improve
Bitcoin's anonymity and privacy and learn about Bitcoin's role in Silk Road and other hidden marketplaces.
6 个视频 （总计 112 分钟）
周7
完成时间为 4 小时
Community, Politics, and Regulation
We'll look at all the ways that the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technology touches the world of people. We'll discuss the community,
politics within Bitcoin and the way that Bitcoin interacts with politics, and law enforcement and regulation issues.
8 个视频 （总计 75 分钟）, 1 个测验
周8
完成时间为 1 小时
Alternative Mining Puzzles
Not everyone is happy about how Bitcoin mining works: its energy consumption and the fact that it requires specialized hardware are major
sticking points. This week we'll look at how mining can be re-designed in alternative cryptocurrencies.
5 个视频 （总计 45 分钟）
周9
完成时间为 1 小时
Bitcoin as a Platform
One of the most exciting things about Bitcoin technology is its potential to support applications other than currency. We'll study several of these
and study the properties of Bitcoin that makes this possible.
5 个视频 （总计 85 分钟）
周10
完成时间为 1 小时
Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
Hundreds of altcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies, have been started, either to fix Bitcoin's perceived flaws or to pursue different goals and
properties. We'll look at everything that goes into an altcoin and how they interact with Bitcoin.
4 个视频 （总计 64 分钟）
周11
完成时间为 1 小时
The Future of Bitcoin?
The use of Bitcoin technology for decentralizing property, markets, and so on has been hailed as a recipe for economic and political disruption.
We'll look at the technological underpinnings of these proposals and the potential impact on society.
