{"id":3637,"date":"2022-01-13T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ee.iitb.ac.in\/web?post_type=course_lists&#038;p=3637"},"modified":"2022-02-11T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T06:42:15","slug":"ee-465-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-technologies","status":"publish","type":"course_lists","link":"https:\/\/www.ee.iitb.ac.in\/web\/course_lists\/ee-465-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"EE 465 &#8211; Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Prerequisites<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Any one of EE720 or CS406 or CS649<br><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Cryptocurrencies<\/strong><br><\/li><li>Bitcoin: Elliptic curve cryptography, ECDSA, cryptographic hash<br>functions, SHA-256, Bitcoin addresses, Bitcoin&#8217;s blockchain, block header,<br>Merkle trees, mining, proof of work (PoW) algorithms, difficulty<br>adjustment algorithm, mining pools, transactions, double spending attacks,<br>the 51% attacker, block format, pre-SegWit transaction formats, Bitcoin<br>script, transaction malleability, SegWit transaction formats, smart<br>contracts (escrow, micropayments, decentralized lotteries), payment<br>channels, Lightning network<br><br><\/li><li>Ethereum: Overview of differences between Ethereum and Bitcoin,<br>block format, mining algorithm, proof-of-stake (PoS) algorithm, account<br>management, contracts and transactions, Solidity language, decentralized<br>applications using Ethereum<br><br><\/li><li>Stellar: Overview of Stellar Network, Horizon and Core servers,<br>Stellar consensus protocol, accounts, assets, ledger format, ledger<br>operations, transactions, smart contracts<br><br><\/li><li>Monero: Overview of differences between Monero and Bitcoin,<br>Cryptonote protocol, ring signatures, confidential transactions,<br>Cryptonight mining algorithm<br><br><\/li><li>Zcash: Overview of differences between Zcash and Bitcoin, zero<br>knowledge proofs, zero knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of<br>knowledge (zkSNARKs), Equihash mining algorithm<br><br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Blockchain Technologies<\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Hyperledger Fabric: System architecture, ledger format, chaincode<br>execution, transaction flow and ordering, private channels, membership<br>service providers, case studies of applications<br><br><\/li><li>Hyperledger Sawtooth: System architecture, global state data<br>format, transactions, batches, journal, proof-of-elapsed time (PoET)<br>consensus algorithm, validator network, case studies of applications<br><br><\/li><li>Quorum: Overview of differences between Quorum and Ethereum,<br>system architecture, Constellation protocol, Raft-based consensus<br>protocol, Istanbul Byzantine fault tolerance (IBFT) protocol,<br>zero-knowledge security layer, case studies of applications<br><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EE 465 - Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies &ndash; 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