Patrick McCorry's Cryptocurrency Class 2022
Patrick McCorry, from Infura1, is lecturing a cryptocurrency class. Start date is 15th March 2022.
"All lecture and teaching material is developed by Patrick McCorry. All material is open-source and it is free to access, use modify or share.
The field of cryptocurrency is trust engineering. It applies cryptography, distributed systems and mechanism design as the foundation for a global and self-sustaining peer-to-peer network.
This course is taught in the style of an MSc module. We'll study how something like Bitcoin can work, the implications and beauty of self-enforcing smart contracts, and focus on bringing all students up to date with state-of-the-art research in this emerging area. There is a special focus for off-chain protocols. This includes the history of payment channels (the lightning network) and validating bridges (rollups)."
Announcement: https://mirror.xyz/0xaFaBa30769374EA0F971300dE79c62Bf94B464d5/oGqGP2NOK9g7QPl1sMKkzql_Fh0P6hKbpYLZ-EkQTXU
Details & sign up: https://cryptocurrencyclass.github.io/
(1) Infura provides the tools and infrastructure that allow developers to easily take their blockchain application from testing to scaled deployment - with simple, reliable access to Ethereum and IPFS.
Cartoon by Peter Steiner.
