Blockchain and Money

Calendar

Session #	Topic	key dates
1	Introduction
Act 1: Blockchain and Money Fundamentals
2	Money, Ledgers, and Bitcoin
3	Blockchain Basics and Cryptography
4	Blockchain Basics and Consensus
5	Blockchain Basics and Transactions, UTXO, and Script Code
6	Smart Contracts and DApps Guest Lecturer: Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
7	Technical Challenges
8	Public Policy
9	Permissioned Systems
10	Financial System Challenges and Opportunities	First business write-up due by this class
Act 2: Blockchain and Use Case Economic
11	Blockchain Economics Guest Lecturer: Rob Gensler, Investor and Financial Analyst
12	Assessing Use Cases
Act 3: Financial Sector Use Cases
13	Payments, Part 1 Guest Lecturer: Alin Dragos, MIT Digital Currency Initiatve
14	Payments, Part 2
15	Central Banks and Commercial Banking, Part 1 Guest Lecturer: Robleh Ali, MIT Digital Currency Initiative
16	Central Banks and Commercial Banking, Part 2
17	Secondary Markets and Crypto-Exchanges
18	A New Approach to Crypto-Exchanges and Payments
19	Primary Markets, ICOs, and Venture Capital, Part 1
20	Primary Markets, ICOs, and Venture Capital, Part 2
21	Post Trade Clearing, Settlement, and Processing
22	Trade Finance and Supply Chain
23	Digital ID	Second business write-up due by this class
24	Conclusion	Group Research Paper due by end of the semster