The best way to communicate with me for this class is by Piazza. I check it every weekday afternoon.
Office Hours: After lecture or by appointment
Class Info
The class meets Tuesday and Thursday, 2-3:15 on Zoom.
Piazza
I've set up a Piazza forum for discussions and emails in this class. I'll be making all class announcements through there
Also, for quick response, please send all of your questions to Piazza (you can post both public, private and anonymous questions). Directions for joining the Piazza forum for this class.
Text Book
Our textbook is Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by
Narayanan et al.
The following slides are from the textbook Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by
Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Steven Goldfeder, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller
A major deliverable for this class is the final project.
You're encouraged to do these in a group of no more than 3 people
Project proposals need to be approved by me (1/3 way through the semester), and there will also be a checkpoint (2/3 way through the semester)
The final project should be of a conference-quality research paper on a theoretical or empirical problem of general interest in blockchains and/or cryptocurrencies
