Blockchain Technology - Fall 2021

Lecture slides and assigned reading (assignments, announcements, etc., can be found on HuskyCT).

Week	Material
Week 15	Term project presentations
Week 14	Slides: rest of Lecture 16 Class Discussion: Interplay of blockchain, privacy, and regulations
Week 13	Thanksgiving recess (no classes)
Week 12	Slides: rest of Lecture 16 and Zero Knowledge Proofs
Week 11	Slides: Lecture 15, Lecture 16, Zero Knowledge Proofs Assigned reading:   - Blockchain Privacy: Equal Parts Theory, Practice, a blog post by Ian Miers.   - Henry et al. Blockchain Access Privacy: Challenges and Directions, in IEEE S&P Magazine, 2018.   - A high level overview of ZKPs, Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer, a blog post by Matthew Green.
Week 10	Slides: rest of Lecture 14
Week 9	Slides: rest of Lecture 12, Lecture 13, Lecture 14 Assigned reading:   - Almashaqbeh et al. ABC: A Cryptocurrency-Focused Threat Modeling Framework, in CryBlock 2019.   - Ali et al. The Nuts and Bolts of Micropayments: a Survey.
Week 8	Slides: Lecture 11, Lecture 12 Assigned reading:   - Chapter 4 in Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies book.   - Almashaqbeh et al. Rethinking Service Systems, in USENIX ;login: Magazine, 2021.
Week 7	Slides: rest of lecture 9, Lecture 10
Week 6	Slides: Lecture 8, Lecture 9 Assigned reading:   - Chapter 9 from Mastering Ethereum book.   - Bano et al. SoK: Consensus in the Age of Blockchains, in AFT 2019.
Week 5	Slides: rest of Lecture 6, Lecture 7 Assigned reading:   - Topics covered in class from Chapters 1 - 6, Mastering Ethereum book.   - Smart contracts, Chapter 7 from Mastering Ethereum book.
Week 4	Slides: rest of Lecture 5, Lecture 6 Assigned reading:   - Ethereum Whitepaper.
Week 3	Slides: Lecture 4, Lecture 5 Assigned reading:   - Sections covering the topics we studied in class from the Mastering Bitcoin book.   - Bitcoin scripting can be found in Chapter 5 of the Mastering Bitcoin book.   - List of Bitcoin opcodes.   - Segwit.   - A simplified overview of Lightning Networks.   - Bitcoin security issues, check Bonneau et al. “Sok: Research perspectives and challenges for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies,” in IEEE S&P, 2015.
Week 2	Slides: rest of Lecture 2, Lecture 3 Assigned reading:   - Sections covering the topics we studied in class from the Mastering Bitcoin book.
Week 1	Slides: Lecture 1, Lecture 2 Assigned reading:   - Chapter 1 in Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies book.   - Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.