Lectures

Lecture 1: Introduction and Course Overview

• Lecture 1 Notes

Lecture 2: Introduction to Bitcoin

• Reading material: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

• Lecture 2 Slides

• Lecture 2 Notes

Lecture 3: PoW Longest Chain Protocol: Attacks and Security Analysis

• Lecture will be on Zoom. The link and password can be found on Canvas.

• Lecture 3 Slides

• Lecture 3 Notes

Lecture 4: Bitcoin Transactions and Bitcoin Script

• Lecture 4 is by Robin Linus.

• Lecture 4 Slides

• Lecture 4 Notes

Lecture 5: Bitcoin Safety and Liveness

• Lecture 5 Notes

Lecture 6: Selfish Mining, Latency and Throughput

• Substitute Lecture 6 Notes

• Lecture 6 Notes

Lecture 7: Security Tradeoffs and from PoW to PoS

• Lecture 7 Notes

Lecture 8: Road to Tendermint

• Lecture 8 Notes

Lecture 9: Tendermint and Finality

• Lecture 9 Slides

• Lecture 9 Notes

Lecture 10: Proof-of-Stake Industry, Accountability, and Economic Security

• Lecture 10 Notes

Lecture 11: Tendermint Recap and Economic Security for PoS Consensus

• Lecture 11 Slides

• Lecture 11 Notes

Lecture 12: PoS Long Range Attacks and Light Clients

• Lecture 12 Slides

• Lecture 12 Notes

Lecture 13: Light Clients and Merkle Trees

• Lecture 13 Notes

Lecture 14: Validity and Fraud Proofs, and Rollups

• Suggested Reading

• Lecture 14 Notes

Lecture 15: Scaling Bitcoin

• Lecture 15 Notes

Lecture 17: Linear Horizontal Scaling via Data Availability - Part I

• Lecture 17 Slides

• Lecture 17 Notes

Lecture 18: Linear Horizontal Scaling via Data Availability - Part II

• Lecture 18 Slides (same as Lecture 17)

• Lecture 18 Notes