How '70s Cryptography Could Improve Bitcoin in 2016 and Beyond
As long as a system requires technical expertise for operation, it will be relegated to use by a small group of technologists. If every person who walked onto an elevator was presented with a keyboard and DOS-style command line terminal, most of us would be looking for the stairs. The nerds among us may eagerly seek out the proverbial programmable elevators, but the average person just wants to push a button to get from one floor to the next, not master gravity-defying vehicles. Bitcoin addresses have long been a point of confusion for new users introduced to the technology. It's difficult....
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If you thought that the University of Nicosia's free bitcoin introductory course was a deal, you might be happy to learn that Stanford University is offering a free course on Cryptography, as pointed out on Reddit. The course, Cryptography I, is taught by computer science professor Dan Boneh - who leads the applied cryptography group within the computer science division at Stanford. According to the course description, the course will cover " the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to correctly use them". The course is composed of video lectures, quizzes, and programming....
University College London (UCL) is seeking submissions about Bitcoin and blockchain technology for its 2016 Thesis/Paper Competition. What UCL Wants. Located in central London, UCL is the largest postgraduate institution in the country by enrollment. Its Center for Blockchain Technologies made the announcement looking for “research thesis and research....
Using the latest cryptography, Blockstream has created Confidential Transactions designed to improve Bitcoin’s user security by keeping the amounts sent visible only to participants in the transaction, or other specified parties. Many have tried to improve on Bitcoin transactional security, with Darkcoin/Dash being the most notable example through their own altcoin. With the innovations inside chain technology, Blockstream has created Confidential Transactions (CT). Using the latest cryptography, Confidential Transactions is designed to improve Bitcoin’s user security by keeping the....
A quantum‑computing collective known as Project Eleven has thrown down a public gauntlet to the global cryptography community, offering a reward of one Bitcoin to the first team that can break a deliberately down‑scaled version of Bitcoin’s elliptic‑curve cryptography using a genuine quantum computer before 5 April 2026. Announcing what it calls the “Q‑Day Prize” […]
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....