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Blockchain and Money

Sloan School of Management MIT CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 23 lectures

This course is for students wishing to explore blockchain technology's potential use—by entrepreneurs and incumbents—to change the world of money and finance. The course begins with a review of Bitcoin and an understanding of the commercial, technical, and public policy fundamentals of blockchain technology, distributed ledgers, and smart contracts. The class then continues on to current and potential blockchain applications in the financial sector.

Syllabus

  1. 1 Session 1: Introduction
  2. 2 Session 2: Money, Ledgers, and Bitcoin
  3. 3 Session 3: Blockchain Basics & Cryptography
  4. 4 Session 4: Blockchain Basics and Consensus
  5. 5 Session 5: Blockchain Basics and Transactions, UTXO, and Script Code
  6. 6 Session 6: Smart Contracts and DApps
  7. 7 Session 7: Technical Challenges
  8. 8 Session 8: Public Policy
  9. 9 Session 9: Permissioned Systems
  10. 10 Session 10: Financial System Challenges and Opportunities
  11. 11 Session 11: Blockchain Economics
  12. 12 Session 12: Assessing Use Cases
  13. 13 Session 13: Payments, Part 1
  14. 14 Session 14: Payments, Part 2
  15. 15 Session 15: Central Banks & Commercial Banking, Part 1
  16. 16 Session 16: Central Banks & Commercial Banking, Part 2
  17. 17 Session 17: Secondary Markets and Crypto-Exchanges
  18. 18 Session 19: Primary Markets, ICOs, & Venture Capital, Part 1
  19. 19 Session 20: Primary Markets, ICOs, & Venture Capital, Part 2
  20. 20 Session 21: Post Trade Clearing, Settlement, & Processing
  21. 21 Session 22: Trade Finance & Supply Chain
  22. 22 Session 23: Digital ID
  23. 23 Session 24: Conclusion

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