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Beyond the Basics of Blockchain

This course moves away from focusing solely on blockchain to discuss how blockchain can be replaced, expanded or improved to meet the needs of a particular use case.

    Syllabus

  • Course Introduction Video — 00:01:59
    • This video introduces this course, providing an overview of topics to be covered.

  • Alternative Distributed Ledger Architectures Video — 00:19:06
    • This video introduces alternative distributed ledger architectures, such as directed acyclic graphs, block lattices and sidechains.

  • Second-Layer Protocols Video — 00:06:35
    • This video discusses protocols that can be built on top of a blockchain, such as state channels (like Bitcoin’s Lightning Network).

  • Advanced Cryptography in Blockchain Video — 00:25:02
    • This video describes how blockchain can go beyond public-key cryptography and hash functions to use more cryptographic algorithms in order to provide additional features.

  • Course Recap Video — 00:02:16
    • This video reviews the information covered in this course.

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Course description

So far, this learning path has been focused on blockchain-based distributed ledgers. This course goes beyond this view to discuss how the blockchain protocol can be replaced (using different underlying architectures), expanded (with second-layer protocols

Meet the author

Howard Poston is a cybersecurity researcher with a background in blockchain, cryptography and malware analysis. He has a master’s degree in Cyber Operations from the Air Force Institute of Technology and two years of experience in cybersecurity research and development at Sandia National Labs. He currently works as a freelance consultant providing training and content creation for cyber and blockchain security. He can be reached by email at howard.poston@gmail.com or via his website at https://www.howardposton.com.

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