Blockchain and digital currencies

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	460-4153/02
Abbreviation	BDM
Course title	Blockchain and digital currencies
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Computer Science
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Radim Bača, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. History of money, ledger, bitcoin introduction.
2. Field, elliptic curves.
3. Cryptographic hash functions. Private and public keys. Digital signature. WIF and BTC addresses.
4. Wallet. Transactions.
5. Bitcoin network. Blockchain and Merkel tree. Proof-of-work and mining.
6. Ethereum blockchain basics.
7. Ethereum clients, wallets, and transactions.
8. Smart contracts and Solidity programming language.
9. Token a Oracle
10. Second layer applications
11. Decentralized applications

E-learning

E-learning support can be found here:
- https://dbedu.cs.vsb.cz
- https://www.youtube.com/@radimbaca564

Literature

A. Antonopoulos. Mastering Bitcoin.
A. Antonopoulos. Mastering Ethereum.

Advised literature

A. Narayanan, J. Bonneau, E. Felten, A. Miller, S. Goldfeder. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies. 2016
A. Antonopoulos, O. Osuntokun, R- Pickhardt. Mastering Lightning Network.

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