Andreas Park PRO
Professor of Finance at UofT
Blockchain Module 0: A 10-Minute Intro
by Andreas Park
Commerce requires TRUST
Premise of Blockchain
trust nothing except what you can verify
controlled by no one entity, person, or organization
anyone can participate
What do we get?
decentralized internet of value
Strongest feature
digital contracts
Gain control
Lose control
Transformations
Part 1: 30,000 ft overview
- Motivation and background
- Blockchain architecture
- basic functionality
- demo of workflow in a blockchain
Part 2: Drilling down
- components of blockchain transactions
- keys, signatures, and addresses
- hashing
- consensus protocols
- mining
Part 3: Moving along
- blockchain privacy & zero knowledge
- scaling solutions
- Private Blockchains: Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, Hyperledger, Corda
- Tokens and Coins
Part 4: Smart contracts
- introduction to smart contracts
- solidity demo
Schedule of Topics
Blockchain Module Part 0c: a 10-minute TED talk
By Andreas Park
Blockchain Module Part 0c: a 10-minute TED talk
This deck of slides is the foundation of a very quick 10-minute introduction to the ideas behind blockchain technology. I used versions of this talk in various events. A narrated version of one version of the talk is available here: https://youtu.be/URYLJeXg_6s
