Skills you'll gain

There are 11 modules in this course

How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold? After this course, you’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able to integrate ideas from Bitcoin in your own projects. Course Lecturers: Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.

How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization

Mechanics of Bitcoin

How to Store and Use Bitcoins

Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin and Anonymity

Community, Politics, and Regulation

Alternative Mining Puzzles

Bitcoin as a Platform

Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

The Future of Bitcoin?

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