University courses usually rely on textbooks. In the case of Princeton's course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, the textbook is being based on the course and a complete first draft is now available, for free, online.
The Princeton Bitcoin course sets out to:
cut through the hype and get to the core of what makes Bitcoin unique
by addressing the following questions
How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold?
It came about in response to demand for structured educational materials from computer science students at Princeton University and was initially taught there by Arvind Narayanan and Joe Bonneau in 2014. Due to its popularity it was then opened up to a wider audience on the Pizza platform starting February 2015, with video lectures presented by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau and Edward Felten from Princeton University and Andrew Miller (University of Maryland) and then transferred to Coursera in September 2015.
According to Arvind Narayanan the Coursera course, which is the version on which the textbook is based, had 30,000 students. The book was also used by other classes, including Stanford’s CS 251 taught by Dan Boneh and Balaji S. Srinivasan .
Read more @ http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/9432-bitcoin-textbook-.html
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