lectures.json

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  "lectures": [
    {
        "title": "Week 1: Introduction to blockchain",
        "description": "Motivation, Cryptocurrencies from a user’s perspective",
        "name": "introduction",
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                "title": "Introduction to blockchain science & engineering",
                "description": "What is money ?, The never-ending book parable, Cryptocurrencies from a user’s perspective",
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    {
        "title": "Week 2: Cryptographic primitives",
        "description": "Hash functions, Digital signatures, Proof-of-Work",
        "name": "cryptographic-primitives",
        "files": [
          {
                "title": "Cryptographic primitives",
                "description": "Introduction to hash functions, proof-of-work, commitment schemes and digital signatures",
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    },
    {
        "title": "Week 3: The Blockchain Network and Data Structures",
        "description": "Authenticated Data Structures, Merkle Trees, Blocks, Blockchains, Peer-to-peer networks",
        "name": "authenticated-data-structures",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "Authenticated Data Structures",
              "description": "Authenticated Data Structures, Merkle Trees, Blocks, Blockchains, Peer-to-peer networks",
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        ]
    },
    {
        "title": "Week 4: Consensus and Distributed Ledgers via Blockchain Data Structure",
        "description": "The Consensus Problem, Blockchain Properties, Ledger Properties, Honest Majority, Difficulty",
        "name": "consensus",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "Consensus and Distributed Ledgers via Blockchain Data Structure",
              "description": "The Consensus Problem, Blockchain Properties, \"Racing attacks\", Consensus and distributed ledger (what is the relation), Difficulty Adjustment, The Bahack attack",
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        ]
    },
    {
        "title": "Week 5: Transactions",
        "description": "Addresses, The UTXO model, Transactions, Double Spending, Confirmation, Bitcoin Script",
        "name": "bitcoin",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "UTXO and the Bitcoin application layer",
              "description": "Transactions, exchange, bitcoin graph, nodes,edges, values, owners, utxo, coinbase, mining, consensus,blockchain, genesis, Bitcoin script, p2pk, p2pkh, multisig",
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          }
        ]
    },
    {
        "title": "Week 6: Blockchain Economics and Incentives",
        "description": "Mining parameters, Mining, Mining Pools, Wallets, Mining Games",
        "name": "economics",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "Blockchain Economics and Incentives",
              "description": "Mining incentives, fees, rewards, coinbase transaction, money supply, market capitalization, target, difficulty, mining pools, ways to mine, full nodes, spv nodes, wallets, Bitcoin and Nash Equilibrium, selfish mining",
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          }
        ]
    },
    {
        "title": "Week 7: The Backbone Model",
        "description": "The Ledger Objective, Execution model, The environment, Basic Properties, Executions, Bahack attack",
        "name": "backbone",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "The Backbone Model",
              "description": "The Ledger Objective, Execution model, The environment, Basic Properties, Executions, Bahack attack",
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        ]
    },
    {
        "title": "Week 8: Ethereum",
        "description": "Accounts, Transactions, Smart contracts, Solidity",
        "name": "ethereum",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "Ethereum",
              "description": "Accounts, Transactions, Smart contracts, Solidity",
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          },
          {
              "title": "Ethereum Tutorial",
              "description": "Installing Metamask, Get ether from a faucet for Ropsten testnet, Interacting with Remix",
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          },
          {
              "title": "Introduction to Solidity",
              "description": "Types, data location, visibility, fallback function, send ether, interacting with other contracts",
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        ]
    },
    {
        "title": "Week 9: Secure Multiparty Computation and Applications",
        "description": "Secret Sharing, MPC, Fair swaps and MPC, Blockchain and MPC",
        "name": "smpc",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "Secure Multiparty Computation and Applications",
              "description": "Multi-sig transactions, Sharing Secret Keys, Finite Cyclic Groups, Secret-Sharing, Coin-flipping, PVSS, MPC, Using a blockchain",
              "hash": "4fa395d9505b7aabd7ebe6f25c6d4bf45c5146ae4dfa4ac8423ef961cd78c147",
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          }
        ]
    },
    {
        "title": "Week 10: Byzantine Fault Tolerance and PoS Blockchains",
        "description": "Byzantine Consensus, Exponential Information Gathering, Bitcoin Consensus, PoS Consensus",
        "name": "bft",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "BFT Protocols",
              "description": "Byzantine Consensus, EIG, Impossibility results, PoS, Common-Prefix Property and Agreement, Chain-Quality Property and Validity",
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          },
          {
              "title": "Blockchain Governance and safekeeping",
              "description": "The problem of upgrades, Hard forks, Soft forks, Velvet forks, Bitcoin block sizes, The bitcoin civil war, DAO hack, Bitcoin history, Wallets",
              "hash": "e0dde7ddd211137af9011b2df4224a83f43d049583f945a097fbde54c36a0eab",
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    },
    {
        "title": "Week 11: Solidity",
        "description": "Smart Contract Best Practices",
        "name": "solidity",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "Solidity",
              "description": "Storage layout, Security of smart contracts, Reentrancy, Integer overflows and underflows, DoS, Forcibly Sending Ether to a Contract, Delegate call, tx.origin, Design patterns, front-running, Randomness",
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    },
    {
        "title": "Week 12: The Backbone Model",
        "description": "Liveness, Persistence, Network model, Execution, Enviroment, Assumptions, Backbone Protocol, Security Properties",
        "name": "backbone-model",
        "files": [
          {
              "title": "The Backbone Model",
              "description": "Liveness, Persistence, Network model, Execution, Enviroment, Assumptions, Backbone Protocol, Security Properties",
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