This is the archived Spring 2015 version of the course. For the most recent version, see http://bitcoin-class.org.

Classes

Class 2: Cryptography
Symmetric Cryptosystems
Asymmetric Cryptosystems

Class 3: Elliptic Curves
Crash Course on Group Theory
Elliptic Curves

Class 4: Verifiably Random?
Signing with Elliptic Curves
Kolmogorov Complexity
Dual-EC NSA Backdoor

Class 5: DigiCash
Cryptographic Hash Functions
Message Digests
Chaum's Untraceable Electornic Cash

Class 6: Proofs of Work
Trust and Distributed Consensus
Proof-of-Work
Introduction to Bitcoin Mining

Class 7: Merkle Trees
Recording Transactions Efficiently

Class 9: Mining
Cost of Computation

Class 10: More Mining
Forking a Blockchain
Asymptotic Analysis
Mining Cost and Energy

Class 11: Pools and Profits
Modeling Mining
Mining Pools

Class 12: Mostly about Superfish
Mining Difficulty
Superfish
SSL Warnings

Class 14: Selfish Mining
The Last Bitcoin
Selfish Mining Attack and Analysis

Class 15: Script
Bitcoin Transactions
Script Interpreter

Class 16: Alternate Cryptocurrencies
Dogecoin!
Key Derivation Functions

Class 23: Blooming Sidechains
Bloom Filters
Merged Mining
Side Chains

Class 24: Silk Road
Legality of Bitcoin
Tor
Silk Road Anonymous Marketplace

Class 25: Proof of Reserve
Multiplicative Magic of Reserve Banking
Proof of Reserve (Jack Doerner)

(Note: classes that are reviews or student presentations without slides/notes are not included here. See the archives for a full list.)