- What is Blockchain?
- What are the central goals of Blockchain?
- Blockchain is a type of Distributed Ledger Technology
- Distributed Ledger Technology explained
- Why Blockchain is needed
- Why this technology is important
- Important terms and trends
- Technology Drivers
- Save time
- Lower costs
- Reduce risks
- Enables new business models
- Enabling Technologies
- Modern networks
- Cryptography and digital signatures
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- New protocols
- Blockchain: The Technology that Underlies Bitcoin and Ethereum
- How Bitcoin works
- How Bitcoin appears to the user
- Operation at network level: Blocks (of data) and chain, synchronization
- Alternative Blockchains (Alt-chains)
- How the Technology Works in General
- No central clearinghouse: Cut out the middleman (including the Government)
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks
- Distributed but synchronized data base: The shared ledger
- Public Key (PK) cryptography and digital signatures
- Special protocols
- “Mining” and consensus
- Architecture
- Key architectural principles
- Permissionless and Permissioned architectures
- Implementation platforms
- Security issues
- Examples and Case Studies
- Cryptocurrencies
- Financial transactions
- Asset movement
- Securities trading and management
- Trade finance
- Retail banking
- Public records
- Interbank settlements
- Related Technologies
- Cloud
- Virtualization
- Smart Systems
- IoT
- Business Landscape
- Business models
- Commercial offerings
- Challenges and Opportunities
- Technology and standards issues
- Legal and regulatory framework
- Need for significant collaborations between incumbents, innovators and regulators
- Impact
- The way we live our lives
- Organization of the society
- Wrap-up: Course Recap, Discussion, and Evaluation
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