(01716430): Blockchian(Tech, Fall 2021)

Time: Tuesday 14:00-17:00

Location: 3201, Teaching Building, Daxing

Class web site: https://huipingsun.github.io/bc202109

Class live: No

Instructor: Huiping Sun (sunhp(at)ss.pku.edu.cn)

TA: Kangjian Wei, Meilin Lv

Date

Topics

Readings

Septempter 14

00. Course Overview [Slides]

No

Septempter 14

01. Blockchain Overview [Slides]

• Textbook. Preface - The Long Road to Bitcoin.
• Textbook. Charpter 1: Introduction to Cryptography & Cryptocurrencies.
• Textbook. Charpter 2: How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization.
• Mastering Blockchain (2nd Edition). Charpter 1: Blockchain 101.
• Mastering Blockchain (2nd Edition). Charpter 2: Decentralization.
• Manav Gupta. IBM Blockchain Dummies . John Wiley & Sons. 2017
• 100 Questions of Blockchain
• Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. 2008. [Homework]

Septempter 28

02. Bitcoin I [Slides]

• Textbook. Charpter 3: Mechanics of Bitcoin.
• Textbook. Charpter 4: How to Store and Use Bitcoins.
• Daniel Drescher. Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps . APRESS. 2017
• Andreas M.Antonopoulos. Mastering Bitcoin. O'Reily. 2014.
• Bitcoin Developer Guide . Bitcoin.org. 2021. [Homework]

October 12

03. Bitcoin II [Slides]

• Textbook. Charpter 5: Bitcoin Mining.
• Textbook. Charpter 7: Community, Politics, and Regulation.
• Bitcoin Developer Guide . Bitcoin.org. 2021.
• Lab-01: Biuld Your Demo Blockchain. [Homework]

October 19

04. Bitcoin III [Slides]

• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 8: The Bitcoin Network.
• Textbook. Charpter 6: Bitcoin and Anonymity.
• Textbook. Charpter 9: Bitcoin as a Platform.
• Scott Ruoti, etc.Blockchain Technology: What is it Good For? . Communication of ACM. 2020. [Homework]

October 26

05. Blockchain Scalability [Slides]

• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 7: Advanced Transaction and Scripting.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 12: Blockchain Applications.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Appendix D: Segregated Witness.
• Zhilai Mao, etc.Research on Blockchain Performance Scalability and Security . Netinfo Security,(2020,20(3):56-64,Chinese).
• Abdelatif Hafid, etc.Scaling Blockchains: A Comprehensive Survey . IEEE ACCESS 2020.
• Zicong Hong, etc.Pyramid: A Layered Sharding Blockchain System . IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'2021). [Homework]
• Yanan Liu, etc.OverlapShard: Overlap-based Sharding Mechanism . 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'2021). [Homework]

November 02

06. Blockchain Application[Slides]

• Textbook. Charpter 8: Alternative Mining Puzzles.
• Textbook. Charpter 10: Altcoin and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem.
• Textbook. Charpter 11: Decentralized Institutions: The Future of Bitcoin?
• Friedhelm Victor, etc.A Taxonomy for Distributed Ledger Analytics . IEEE Computer Magezine. 2021. [Homework]

November 09

07. Ethereum I [Slides]

• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 1: What is Ethereum?
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 2: Ethereum Basics.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 3: Ethereum Clients.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 4: Cryptography.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 5: Wallets.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 6: Transcations.

November 16

08. AntChain [Slides]

No

November 23

09. IPFS & Consensus [Slides]

No

November 30

10. Ethereum II [Slides]

• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 10: Token.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 12: Decentralized applications (DApp).
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 13: The Ethereum Virtual Machine.

January 15

11. Project Presentations [Slides]

No