Life in the clouds, Googie style (1962).

CSC 597: Blockchain and Ethereum

by: burt rosenberg
at: university of miami
section: G7, semester 251
time: Friday 2:30pm–3:20pm
place: Knight Physics 108 starting Aug 30, Ungar 330G

Calendar:

Dec 6, Friday:
Finals date 59x get-together!
Nov 22:
Final projects

Syllabus

• Is is a one credit, Friday only course.
• The course covers
  • Bitcoin
  • Ethereum
  • Solidity
  • DeFi (e.g. Flash Boys 2.0)
• The HardHat development environment will be used.
• You will need to install the Metamask extension on your browser.
• The Sepolia testnet will be used, with the API on Infura.
• There will be programming in Node.js
• Examples now on github.

Lectures

• Lesson 1: Bitcoin (all but signatures)
• Lesson 2: Bitcoin signatures.
• Additional Reading
  • DigSig notes and non-interactive proofs of knowledge
  • CSC 597 edition 231 on Bitcoin, exclusively.
• Lesson 3: An Ethereum contract.
• Lesson 4: Sepolia testnet deployment.
• Lesson 5: The notorious Boom, now in Solidity
• Reentrancy attacks
  • Solidity by Example
  • Repository of further examples.
  • Checks Effects Interaction pattern

Block chain explorers and development sites

• Mempool.space
• Etherscan
• Sepolia testnet on Etherscan.io.
• Bitcoin Core, reference implementation.
• ERC20 token implementation at Solidity by Example
• EVM Codes
• Uniswap

Final Projects

• Voting by kiruko1025
• An auction project ...

References

• Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox, Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer, ESORICS 2014.
• Flash Boys 2.0
• Why DAI is favored over USDT for crypto money laundering
• The Lightening Network, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja, Feb 28, 2015.

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author: burton rosenberg
created: 14 aug 2024
update: 28 nov 2024