Princeton University and Coursera Launch Free Online Course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

World renowned Princeton University has started an online course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies. The course will be available on Coursera, which is a leading education platform that aims to partner with "leading universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free." Earlier, we had reported that Cryptocurrency was also going to be added to the Stanford's cyber security program. Princeton's cryptocurrency course will be available only in the English language and will need 6-weeks of study with minimum 3-5 dedicated hours per week. In the....

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....

Early last year NYU became the first major institution to invite its students to take part in a bitcoin related course. Now it looks as though other major institutions are ready to follow suit - the latest being the world renowned Princeton University. Starting in April 2015, Princeton will commence teaching of a course called "TC-Tech: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies." Strangely, the course is listed as not being an official Princeton course on the University's website - but from what we can tell this is due to the fact that the course will be taught online (via webinars), and is....

The first complete draft of an upcoming Princeton University textbook on bitcoin is now available. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies takes comprehensive look at the technology behind bitcoin. The free download is the first complete draft of the book, with an official version expected to be published this summer. Citing its “conversational style”, co-author Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, wrote in an introductory blog post: “If you’re looking to truly understand how bitcoin works at a technical level and have a basic familiarity with computer....

Princeton University’s first complete draft of the Princeton Bitcoin textbook, all 308 pages of it, is now available ahead of the book that is due to be published by the Princeton University Press in 2016. The first draft of the Princeton Bitcoin textbook, is now freely available. The book is aimed at computer science students, both undergraduate and graduate, as well as advanced students and researchers, software developers, entrepreneurs and technology hobbyists alike. The book is authored by: Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, Joseph Bonneau, a....