A Course about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

[ofeliawitty]

If you are new to bitcoin and blockchain and you are curious about its technical aspect, there is a course about it. It's also free.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

About this course: To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. We’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin, such as:

How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold?

After this course, you’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able to integrate ideas from Bitcoin in your own projects.

Course Lecturers:
Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University

It's supposed to start this month, September. I am already registered. I will leave my impressions later about it later and if it's really worth your time.

[Raimon]

This one is a very interesting course. Its for users with some knowlegment about bitcoins. To complete the corse you need some coding skills.

Also for users that didn't know anything about bitcoin and want to start learning there is another course from Unimooc (for now its only on spanish language) http://unimooc.com/bitcoin/

[ofeliawitty]

Checking this one, too. i hope there will be english version though. The princeton course hasn't started yet.

[coin@coin]

I'll check out the Coursera course. Thanks for sharing!

[Rmcdermott927]

It's a nice course but I would like to know what level of depth they are going to get to.

Learning about the blockchain, regulation, and the main functions is one thing. But are they truly going to get into some of the science behind it?

[BitcoinGuides]

Very good course, I took it last year.