BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCIES
ANISH MOHAMMED
Combinatorics and graph theory lay at the heart of discrete mathematics and computer science. In the course, we begin with a brief review of the fundamentals of combinatorics---counting, permutations, binomial coefficients, and the pigeonhole principle---and then devote most of the course to the fundamentals of graph theory. We cover the most common definitions and ideas of graph theory, proving important theorems and introducing important algorithms, but mostly aiming to simply establish the common language of discrete mathematics and computer science.
Anish has been working in the field of security and cryptography for the last two decades, both as a researcher and a consultant.
Over the past seven years he has become more involved in the Blockchain ecosystem as one of the founding members of the United Kingdom Digital Currency Association (UKDCA). He has advised and worked for various banks and financial institutions including AIB, HSBC, Lloyds and Zurich. He was also an early advisor to Ripple and spends his spare time on the Ethereum Swarm project.
His main focus is currently to work on projects involving security, scalability and consensus of blockchains, using smart contracts for AI safety, crypto economics, and token engineering, including the design of over a dozen blockchain protocols. Anish is a regular speaker who has given more than a hundred talks in the areas of AI, cybersecurity, fintech and blockchain and contributor to Venturebeat and CNN. He regularly gives lectures at graduate courses on topics including Blockchain, AI and Cybersecurity at CMU, UCL, Imperial and SRH Berlin. Anish is the co-founder of Ethicnet, CEO of Ztrade and the head of research at the Information Sciences Institute at SRH Berlin.
This module introduces and demystifies cryptocurrency and blockchain, its core characteristics and limitations, and more importantly helps frame the key questions to ask in order to get the most out of this powerful technology, namely when it can provide an efficient solution and when it becomes overkill!
SKILLS:
- Cryptography
- Blockchain
- Token Economics
- Crypto Economics
- Cyber Security
ABOUT ANISH
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
DATE: 06 Apr - 24 Apr, 2020
DURATION: 3 Weeks
LECTURES: 2 Hours per day
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus
COURSE TYPE: Offline
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DATE: 06 Apr - 24 Apr, 2020
DURATION: 2 Weeks
LECTURES: 2 Hours per day
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus
COURSE TYPE: Offline
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BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCIES
Although Bitcoin has made a lot of headlines since its mysterious appearance on the international stage in 2009, it is really the blockchain technology behind it which has the potential to transform the financial industry. From developing blockchain-based digital assets and financial instruments to keeping track of ownership of property through secure private ledgers, the underlying “distributed trustless consensus” structure opens the doors to a more secure, cost-effective and market-transparent alternative to just relying on the trust and services traditionally provided by large financial institutions.
Although Bitcoin has made a lot of headlines since its mysterious appearance on the international stage in 2009, it is really the blockchain technology behind it which has the potential to transform the financial industry. From developing blockchain-based digital assets and financial instruments to keeping track of ownership of property through secure private ledgers, the underlying “distributed trustless consensus” structure opens the doors to a more secure, cost-effective and market-transparent alternative to just relying on the trust and services traditionally provided by large financial institutions.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, and Steven Goldfeder
COURSE OUTLINESession 1
Cryptocurrency/Blockchain History
Session 4
Bitcoin: Rubber hits the road
Session 3
Bitcoin Technical Overview
Session 2
Bitcoin High Level Overview
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