# COMP726

**Repository Path**: lujeff/COMP726

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: COMP726
- **Description**: COMP726 - Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technology at Auckland University of Technology
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-08-12
- **Last Updated**: 2021-08-12

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## README

## COMP726
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technology at Auckland University of Technology

As always this crypto space moves fast and so this is a work in progress...

Lecture 1 - Motivation for & history of computing leading to Bitcoin\
Lecture 2 - Hash functions, merkle trees, block structure\
Lecture 3 - Consensus: centralized & decentralized, double-spend attack\
Lecture 4 - Mining: proof of work\
Lecture 5 - Public key cryptography\
Lecture 6 - Systems architecture\
Lecture 7 - Security\
Lecture 8 - Decentralized Finance\
Lecture 9 - Privacy & Data Sovereignty\
Lecture 10 - IPFS\
Lecture 11 - Scaling\
Lecture 12 - wrap up

Tutorial 1 - Search for a blockchain or platform to investigate\
Tutorial 2 - [Block structure, hashing & merkle trees with Python and Jupyter](https://github.com/millecodex/COMP726/blob/master/Tutorial_2_block_creation.ipynb)\
Tutorial 3 - [Proof-of-Work: mining, difficulty, probability](https://github.com/millecodex/COMP726/blob/master/Tutorial_3_PoW.ipynb)\
Tutorial 4 - [Elliptic curve cryptography: Turn a public-private key pair into an address](https://github.com/millecodex/COMP726/blob/master/Tutorial_4_ECC.ipynb)\
Tutorial 5 - [Remix Part I](Tutorial_5.md)\
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