Blockchain and Money | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Gary Gensler

Departments

Sloan School of Management

As Taught In

Fall 2018

Level

Graduate

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Lecture Notes

Session 1: Introduction

Session 2: Money, Ledgers, and Bitcoin

Session 3: Blockchain Basics & Cryptography

Session 4: Blockchain Basics and Consensus

Session 5: Blockchain Basics and Transactions, UTXO, and Script Code

Lecture 6: Smart Contracts and DApps

Session 6: Smart Contracts and DApps

Session 7: Technical Challenges

Session 8: Public Policy

Session 9: Permissioned Systems

Session 10: Financial System Challenges and Opportunities

Session 11: Blockchain Economics

Session 12: Assessing Use Cases

Session 13: Payments Part 1

Session 14: Payments, Part 2

Session 15: Central Banks and Commercial Banking

Session 16: Central Banks and Commercial Banking, cont.

Session 17: Secondary Markets and Crypto-Exchanges

Session 19: Primary Markets, ICOs, and Venture Capital Part 1

Session 20: Primary Markets, ICOs, and Venture Capital Part 2

Session 21: Post Trade Clearing, Settlement, and Processing

Session 22: Trade Finance and Supply Chain

Session 23: Digital ID

Session 24: Conclusion

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Gary Gensler

Departments

Sloan School of Management

As Taught In

Fall 2018

Level

Graduate

Topics

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Videos

Written Assignments

Download Course

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