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Media Arts and Sciences

As Taught In

Spring 2018

Level

Graduate

Topics

Engineering

Computer Science

Algorithms and Data Structures

Data Mining

Software Design and Engineering

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Lecture Videos

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Lecture Videos

Lecture 1: Signatures, Hashing, Hash Chains, e-cash, and Motivation

Lecture 2: Proof of Work and Mining

Lecture 3: Signatures

Lecture 4: Transactions and the UTXO Model

Lecture 5: Synchronization Process, Pruning

Lecture 6: SPV and Wallet Types

Lecture 7: OP_RETURN and Catena

Lecture 8: Forks

Lecture 10: PoW Recap, Other Fork Types

Lecture 11: Fees

Lecture 12: Transaction Malleability and Segregated Witness

Lecture 13: Payment Channels and Lightning Network

Lecture 14: Lightning Network and Cross-chain Swaps

Lecture 15: Discreet Log Contracts

Lecture 16: MAST, Taproot, Graftroot

Lecture 17: Anonymity, Coinjoin and Signature Aggregation

Lecture 18: Confidential Transactions

Lecture 22: Alternative Consensus Mechanisms

Lecture 23: New Directions in Crypto

Lecture 24: zkLedger

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