Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course

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Lecture 5 — Bitcoin Mining

Fifth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course. Course website: https://piazza.com/princeton/spring2015/btctech/home

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In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section):

* The task of Bitcoin miners 0:15

* Mining hardware 10:17

* Energy consumption & ecology 33:38

* Mining pools 50:16

* Mining incentives and strategies 1:04:29

Third lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course. Course website: https://piazza.com/princeton/spring2015/btctech/home

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In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section):

* Bitcoin transactions 1:44

* Bitcoin scripts 11:42

* Application of Bitcoin scripts 27:20

* Bitcoin blocks 42:09

* The Bitcoin network 47:58

* Limitations & improvements...

Fourth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course.

For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/

In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section):

* Simple Local Storage 0:27

* Hot and Cold Storage 6:28

* Splitting and Sharing Keys 19:52

* Online Wallets and Exchanges 30:54

* Payment Services 50:17

* Transaction Fees 58:30

* Currency Exchange Markets 1:04:09

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