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Bitcoin Introduction is a Course

Bitcoin Introduction

Jan 11, 2018 - Nov 4, 2030

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Full course description

Course Introduction

What is Bitcoin? Learn what Bitcoin is as well as how it works.

Topics

In this course, you will learn about:

  • The definitive function of money
  • Pros and cons of proof of work
  • Bitcoin protocol, transaction, mining, security, and privacy

Meet the Creator

L. Jean Camp is a Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. She is a  Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  She joined Indiana after eight years at Harvard’s Kennedy School where her courses were also listed in Harvard Law, Harvard Business, and the Engineering Systems Division of MIT.  She spent the year after earning her doctorate from Carnegie Mellon as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. She began her career as an engineer at Catawba Nuclear Station with a MSEE at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  Her research focuses on the intersection of human and technical trust, leveraging economic models and human-centered design to create safe, secure systems. Her early contributions in the interdisciplines of economics of security, user-centered security, risk communication, and online trust underlie her applied research in the domains of IoT, authentication, secure networking, ecrime, public policy, ethics in computer science, and a few works on applied cryptography.  Full text and details on her publications can be found at their disciplinary homes, meaning that there is no complete overlap between Research GateDBLP , SSRN,  and Google Scholar. Works sorted by domain and discipline are also available at http://www.ljean.com/publications.php.

 

Length: ~3 hours

 

Department: 
School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

 

Credit: None

 

Audience: Public