Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design

Lecture Notes

SES #	TOPICS	ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
1	Lecture 1: Signatures, Hashing, Hash Chains, e-cash, and Motivation (PDF)
2	Lecture 2: Proof of Work (PoW) and Mining (PDF)	Nakamoto, Satoshi. “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.”
3	Lecture 3: Signatures (PDF)	Maxwell, Gregory, Andrew Poelstra, Yannick Seurin and Pieter Wuille. “Simple Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Applications to Bitcoin.”
4	Lecture 4: Transactions and the UTXO Model (PDF)	Bitcoin Transactions
5	Lecture 5: Synchronization Process, Pruning (PDF)
6	Lecture 6: Simplified Payment Verification and Wallet Types (PDF)
7	Lecture 7: OP_RETURN and Catena (PDF) Guest Lecturer: Alin Tomescu	Tomescu, Alin, and Srini Devadas. “Catena: Efficient Non-equivocation via Bitcoin.” MIT CSAIL. Catena code on GitHub
8	Lecture 8: Forks (PDF)
9	Lecture 9: Peer-to-peer Networks Guest Lecturer: Sharon Goldberg Lecture not available
10	Lecture 10: PoW Recap, Other Fork Types (PDF)
11	Lecture 11: Fees (PDF)
12	Lecture 12: Transaction Malleability and Segregated Witness (PDF)
13	Lecture 13: Payment Channels and Lightning Network (PDF)
14	Lecture 14: Lightning Network and Cross-chain Swaps (PDF)
15	Lecture 15: Discreet Log Contracts (PDF)
16	Lecture 16: MAST, Taproot, Graftroot (PDF)
17	Lecture 17: Anonymity, Coinjoin and Signature Aggregation (PDF)
18	Lecture 18: Confidential Transactions (PDF)
19	Lecture 19: Ethereum and Smart Contracts Guest Lecturer: Joseph Bonneau Lecture not available
20	Lecture 20: More about Ethereum Lecture not available
21	Lecture 21: Proof of Work at Industrial Scales Guest Lecturer: David Vorick Lecture not available
22	Lecture 22: Alternative Consensus Mechanisms (PDF)
23	Lecture 23: New Directions in Crypto (PDF)
24	Lecture 24: zkLedger (PDF)