Stanford University Introduces Bitcoin Engineering course
Stanford has just introduced a brand new lab course focused on “Bitcoin Engineering,” meant to teach students more about bitcoin, and how to build Bitcoin-enabled applications. To get a background in the digital currency, those interested in the course will start off with a two-week introduction to Bitcoin, and Bitcoin computing. Once this is done, students will be taught how to build Bitcoin-enabled versions of various popular Internet services. The idea behind this is to advocate for, and preview a future where Internet services are powered by micropayments, rather than ads or other....
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Stanford University's Computer Science building. It's safe to assume that anyone reading this knows what Bitcoin is. But did you ever stop and wonder how Bitcoin's underlying technology really works? Bitcoin relies on cryptography to control the currency's creation and transfer. It uses a cryptographic hash function called SHA-256, widely considered to be very secure. But just what does that mean, and why is it important? How does cryptography even work? If you've ever asked yourself these questions, Stanford University has you covered. The California-based university, well-known for its....
Recognizing the need for advanced engineering to ensure privacy and protection of digital assets, the Stanford University School of Engineering in Stanford, Calif. will offer a new course on this subject in September. The course is called Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and Friends (CS251). The course will run from Sept. 21 to Dec. 9, 2015. "The technology behind Bitcoin and other crypto currencies can be an indispensable tool for protecting information," said Dan Boneh, a professor of computer science at the school who will be teaching the course. Boneh said virtual currency has the potential....
Stanford University is offering a lab course on building bitcoin-enabled applications. The course is scheduled to run from Jan. 4 to March 11 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays in building 420-041 at the Stanford campus. The introduction to bitcoin (Jan. 4) presented concepts like digital signatures, the blockchain, transactions and mining. Instructors are Balaji S. Srinivasan, co-founder and CEO of 21 Inc., and Dan Boneh, a Stanford professor of computer science and electrical engineering. Students will learn how to rewire Internet services based on bitcoin. The school....
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Dr. Balaji Srinivasan and Dr. Dan Boneh started their new course, “Bitcoin Engineering” at Stanford University on Monday, January 4th. The class is a companion to Stanford’s previous Bitcoin-related course, “Crypto Currencies, the Blockchain, and Smart Contracts.” About 85 percent of this quarter’s class will feature new material. The class gives you a sense of what Bitcoin can do. It's not Bitcoin as a financial instrument, not about buy low/sell high. It's about Bitcoin as a protocol.” —Balaji Srinivasan. The two courses differ in that the previous class focused on Bitcoin as a....