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Dates and topics are subject to change. Reading is assigned on the day specified, and will be discussed in the following class. All assignments are submitted via Gradescope. There is a late day policy of 4 days which you can spread across assignments (this doesn’t count for the project, nor the exams).

8/31/2020: Introduction

9/2/2020: Crypto background

9/7/2020: Labor day, no class

9/9/2020: Crypto background II / Consensus protocols, Towards Bitcoin

9/14/2020: Consensus, towards Bitcoin

9/16/2020: Bitcoin intro

9/21/2020: Bitcoin: transaction format and key management

9/23/2020: Bitcoin: transaction format II

9/28/2020: Ethereum

9/30/2020: Ethereum 1 & Smart Contracts

10/5/2020: Ethereum 2 & Smart Contracts

10/7/2020: Ethereum 3 & Smart Contracts

  • Project groups & Topics due Friday 10/8 11:59pm (one page proposal)

10/12/2020: Ethereum Internals

10/14/2020: Mining and Attacks

10/19/2020: Alternative Mining Puzzles

10/21/2020: Anonymity & Privacy I

10/26/2020: Guest lecture: Ted Yin, Avalanche Labs

10/28/2020: Scaling cryptocurrencies I (payment channels, state channels) (AJ)

11/2/2020: Scaling cryptocurrencies II (sharding, alternative blockchains)

11/4/2020: Guest lecture: Dr Jing Chen, Algorand

  • Cloud recording on Piazza

11/9/2020: Privacy and Anonymity II

11/11/2020: Proof of stake

11/16/2020: Blockchains applications I

11/18/2020:

11/23/2020: Thanksgiving break, no class

  • ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE TODAY AT 11:590

11/25/2020: Thanksgiving break, no class

11/30/2020: Ethereum / Scaling

12/2/2020: Project presentations

12/7/2020: Project presentations II

12/9/2020: No class (JHU is on a Thursday schedule)

FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES DUE 11:59pm ET DECEMBER 14 VIA GRADESCOPE

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