Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design

Course Curriculum

Start Next Lesson Signatures, Hashing, Hash Chains, e-cash, and Motivation

1. Signatures, Hashing, Hash Chains, e-cash, and Motivation

2. Proof of Work and Mining

3. Signatures

4. Transactions and the UTXO model

5. Synchronization Process and Pruning

6. Wallets and SPV

7. Catena: Efficient Non-equivocation via Bitcoin

8. Forks

9. PoW Recap, Other Fork Types

10. Fees

11. Transaction Malleability and Segregated Witness

12. Payment Channels and Lightning Network

13. Lightning Network and Cross-chain Swaps

14. Discreet Log Contracts

15. MAST, Taproot, Graftroot

16. Anonymity, Coinjoin and Signature Aggregation

17. Confidential Transactions

18. Alternative Consensus Mechanisms

19. New Directions in Crypto

20. zkLedger