Blockchain Technology I - Fall 2023

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

Week	Material
Week 15	Term project presentations
Week 14	Slides: rest of Lecture 15, recitation.
Week 13	Thanksgiving recess (no classes)
Week 12	Slides: rest of Lecture 14, Lecture 15
Week 11	Slides: Lecture 13, Lecture 14 Assigned reading:   - Almashaqbeh et al. ABC: A Cryptocurrency-Focused Threat Modeling Framework, in CryBlock 2019 (Sections 4 and 5 are optional).   - Ali et al. The Nuts and Bolts of Micropayments: a Survey.
Week 10	Slides: rest of Lecture 11, Lecture 12, Blockchain simulator tutorial Assigned reading:   - Almashaqbeh et al. Rethinking Service Systems, in USENIX ;login: Magazine, 2021.
Week 9	Slides: Lecture 10, Lecture 11 Assigned reading:   - (Optional) Amiri et al. Permissioned Blockchains: Properties, Techniques and Applications.   - Chapter 5 in Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies book.
Week 8	Slides: rest of Lecture 9, Smart contract tutorial
Week 7	Slides: rest of Lecture 8, Lecture 9 Assigned reading:   - Chapter 9 from Mastering Ethereum book.   - Sections 5 and 6 from Bano et al. SoK: Consensus in the Age of Blockchains, in AFT 2019.
Week 6	Slides: rest of lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8 Assigned reading:   - Smart contracts, Chapter 7 from Mastering Ethereum book.
Week 5	Slides: rest of Lecture 5, Lecture 6 Assigned reading:   - (Optional reading) Ethereum Whitepaper.   - Topics covered in class from Chapters 1 - 6, Mastering Ethereum book.
Week 4	Slides: rest of lecture 4, Lecture 5 Assigned reading:   - Segwit.   - A simplified overview of Lightning Networks.   - (Optional reading) If you are interested to know more about Bitcoin security issues, check the following paper: Bonneau et al. “Sok: Research perspectives and challenges for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies,” in IEEE S&P, 2015. Can be found at this link
Week 3	Slides: rest of lecture 3, Lecture 4 Assigned reading:   - Sections on the topics covered in class from Mastering Bitcoin book.   - Bitcoin scripting can be found in Chapters 6 and 7 of the Mastering Bitcoin book.   - List of Bitcoin opcodes.
Week 2	Slides: rest of Lecture 2, Lecture 3 Assigned reading:   - Sections covering the topics we studied in class from the Mastering Bitcoin textbook.
Week 1	Slides: Lecture 1, Lecture 2 Assigned reading:   - Chapter 1 in Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies textbook.   - Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.