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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Blockchain and Money

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare

Overview

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. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018.
2. Money, Ledgers & Bitcoin.
3. Blockchain Basics & Cryptography.
4. Blockchain Basics & Consensus.
5. Blockchain Basics & Transactions, UTXO and Script Code.
6. Smart Contracts and DApps.
7. Technical Challenges.
8. Public Policy.
9. Permissioned Systems.
10. Financial System Challenges & Opportunities.
11. Blockchain Economics.
12. Assessing Use Cases.
13. Payments, Part 1.
14. Payments, Part 2.
15. Central Banks & Commercial Banking, Part 1.
16. Central Banks & Commercial Banking, Part 2.
17. Secondary Markets & Crypto-Exchanges.
19. Primary Markets, ICOs & Venture Capital, Part 1.
20. Primary Markets, ICOs & Venture Capital, Part 2.
21. Post Trade Clearing, Settlement & Processing.
22. Trade Finance & Supply Chain.
23. Digital ID.
24. Conclusion.

Taught by

Prof. Gary Gensler

Reviews

4.6 rating, based on 11 Class Central reviews

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  • Cette présentation de formation est bonne et merveilleuse, car je comprends bien le sujet de la technologie financière et la relation de cette technologie avec l'argent. Le conférencier a expliqué les différents aspects de la blockchain et ses utili…
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    Muhammad Ahmed Amjad
    Extremely useful in understanding the digital technological landscape involving financial management.
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    Parthib Ghosh
    Good course to learn. A valuable lesson I received from this course.I want more lecture about Block chain
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    Sereyvath San
    "Informative and insightful exploration of the intersection between blockchain technology and finance. Highly recommended. #MIT #Blockchain"

  • Suhail Mohamed Al Ali
    Block chain and money course was really helpful. It takes you through various stages/subjects/places, in order to understand the idea clearly.
  • Aadil Zamir
    One of the best course I have ever done in the segment of finance specifically in blockchain and money via MIT
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    Alexei Bondarenko
    Great course to build overall picture of blockchain technology, it's challenges and implementations.
  • Benyam Aragaw
    The lecture are well presented in such a way that people that are interested in fintech but have little or no exposure with it can undertand what it is all about.Currently digitalisation is transforming finance to a new level,even may be engulfing it to a whole new level.And people that are proactive will find the course and the lecture videos benefitial.
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    Robert M. Carden
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  • Kamekin
    good , the following course , is all , amazing with good masters that will teach you alone bull and bear writing a reveier .

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