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Bitcoin Script

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies-Week 3

Bitcoin Script is using to transfer coins instead of just signature and public key address, which allows more flexibilities for Bitcoin transactions

Posted by "赵化冰" Sunday, June 3, 2018

Distributed Consensus

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies-Week 2

How the nodes in the bitcoin network reach consensus on the transactions?

Posted by "赵化冰" Sunday, May 27, 2018

Incentives and Proof of Work

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies-Week 2

How bitcoin system implements the mechanism to motivate the participants and how the participants prove their work?

Posted by "赵化冰" Saturday, May 26, 2018

Programming Assignment: Scrooge Coin

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies-Week 1

Finally, I got to the most exciting part of week 1 lectures-the programming assignment!

Posted by赵化冰 Sunday, May 20, 2018

Digital Signature and Public Key as Identities

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies-Week 1

Some fundamental cryptographic technologies in Bitcoin: Asymmetic encryption(Public/Private key), Digital Signature, Digital Identity(Public key and Digital Certificate).

Posted by赵化冰 Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Hash Pointers and Data Structures

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies-Week 1

Hash pointer is used to bulid some key data structures in cryptocurrency, such as Block chain and Merkel tree.

Posted by赵化冰 Saturday, May 12, 2018

Cryptographic Hash Function

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies-Week 1

Hash function can produce a fixed lenght digest of any size of data, and the original data can not be found out if it's properly used.

Posted by赵化冰 Wednesday, May 9, 2018