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Thurs |
Jan 25 |
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Introduction |
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| 2 |
Tue |
Jan 30 |
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Bitcoin (paper) |
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| Thu |
Feb 1 |
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Selfish Mining (paper) |
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| 3 |
Tue |
Feb 6 |
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Ethereum (paper) |
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| Thu |
Feb 8 |
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Gnosis (paper) |
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Tue |
Feb 13 |
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| Thu |
Feb 15 |
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| 5 |
Tue |
Feb 20 |
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February Break |
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| Thu |
Feb 22 |
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Shelling Coin (writeup); Town Crier (paper) |
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Tue |
Feb 27 |
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| Thu |
Mar 1 |
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Tue |
Mar 6 |
Scalability |
Bitcoin-NG (paper) |
ByzCoin (paper) |
| Thu |
Mar 8 |
Sidechains (whitepaper); Aspen (paper) |
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| 8 |
Tue |
Mar 13 |
Duplex Payment Channels (paper); Lightning Network(whitepaper) |
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| Thu |
Mar 15 |
Teechan (paper) |
TeeChain (preprint) |
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Tue |
Mar 20 |
BFT Protocols |
Byzantine Generals (paper) |
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| Thu |
Mar 22 |
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (paper); FLP Result (paper) |
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| 10 |
Tue |
Mar 27 |
Ripple (whitepaper); Stellar (whitepaper) |
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| Thu |
Mar 29 |
Hashgraph (whitepaper); IOTA (whitepaper) |
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| 11 |
Tue |
Apr 3 |
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Spring Break |
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| Thu |
Apr 5 |
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Spring Break |
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| 12 |
Tue |
Apr 10 |
Decentralized Exchanges |
0x Decentralized Exchange (whitepaper) |
GasToken (website) |
| Thu |
Apr 12 |
Privacy and Fungibility |
CoinJoin (blog post); CoinShuffle (paper); TumbleBit (paper) |
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| 13 |
Tue |
Apr 17 |
ZCash (paper); Monero (whitepaper); Dash (whitepaper) |
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| Thu |
Apr 19 |
Potpourri |
DAO Hack; Call for a Moratorium (whitepaper) |
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Tue |
Apr 24 |
Governance |
Tezos (whitepaper) |
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Apr 26 |
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Tue |
May 1 |
Regulation |
Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and The Social Workings of Law (paper) |
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| Thu |
May 3 |
Measurement |
Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks(paper) |
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Tue |
May 8 |
Future Directions |
Enabling Strong Database Integrity using Trusted Execution Environments(paper) |
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