Welcome to the Blockchain-Technology-and-Application-Notes-2018! This repository contains notes, resources, and references for the course "Blockchain Technology and Application" taught by Professor Zhen Xiao in 2018.
This course focuses on the fundamental concepts and implementation principles of blockchain technology. It is designed for students with a basic understanding of computer science who are interested in blockchain technology and its applications. By the end of the course, students will have a solid grasp of the design principles behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchain technologies, as well as the ability to apply these principles to solve practical problems.
- Instructor: Professor Zhen Xiao
- Award: Professor Zhen Xiao received the 2018 Peking University Teaching Excellence Award for this course.
- Course Format: The course is primarily taught through lectures and blackboard notes. While slides are provided, they are supplementary and should be used in conjunction with the course videos for a complete understanding.
- Introduction
- Cryptographic Principles
- Data Structures
- Consensus Protocols
- Implementation
- Network
- Mining Difficulty
- Mining
- Scripting
- Forks
- Q&A
- Anonymity
- Reflections on Bitcoin
- Overview
- Accounts
- State Trees
- Transaction and Receipt Trees
- GHOST Protocol
- Mining Algorithms
- Difficulty Adjustment
- Proof of Stake (PoS)
- Smart Contracts
- The DAO Incident
- Reflections on Ethereum
- Ethereum Classic (ETC)
This repository includes the following:
- Detailed notes from the 2018 course lectures.
- References to the course videos.
- Supplementary slides for various topics covered in the course.
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