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MAS.S62 Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design

MAS.S62 Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design (Spring 2018, MIT OCW). Instructors: Neha Narula and Tadge Dryja. Bitcoin and other cryptographic currencies have gained attention over the years as the systems continue to evolve. This course looks at the design of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and how they function in practice, focusing on cryptography, game theory, and network architecture. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Lecture 22 - Alternative Consensus Mechanisms

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Lecture 01 - Signatures, Hashing, Hash Chains, e-Cash, and Motivation

Lecture 02 - Proof of Work and Mining

Lecture 03 - Signatures

Lecture 04 - Transactions and the UTXO Model

Lecture 05 - Synchronization Process and Pruning

Lecture 06 - SPV and Wallet Types

Lecture 07 - Catena: Efficient Non-equivocation via Bitcoin

Lecture 08 - Forks

Lecture 09

Lecture 10 - PoW Recap, Other Fork Types

Lecture 11 - Fees

Lecture 12 - Transaction Malleability and Segregated Witness

Lecture 13 - Payment Channels and Lightning Network

Lecture 14 - Lightning Network and Cross-chain Swaps

Lecture 15 - Discreet Log Contracts

Lecture 16 - MAST, Taproot, Graftroot

Lecture 17 - Anonymity, Coinjoin and Signature Aggregation

Lecture 18 - Confidential Transactions

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Lecture 21

Lecture 22 - Alternative Consensus Mechanisms

Lecture 23 - New Directions in Crypto

Lecture 24 - zkLedger