460-4153/02 – Blockchain and digital currencies (BDM)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Computer ScienceCredits4
Subject guarantordoc. Ing. Radim Bača, Ph.D.Subject version guarantordoc. Ing. Radim Bača, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementOptional
Year1Semestersummer
Study languageEnglish
Year of introduction2022/2023Year of cancellation
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Full-time Graded credit 2+2

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

The main goal is to learn basic knowledge about blockchain technology and learn the basic work. We start with a detailed explanation of the blockchain principles. We continue with blockchain programming using the most well-known blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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Summary

This subject is an introduction to the world of digital currencies and blockchain.

Compulsory literature:

A. Antonopoulos. Mastering Bitcoin. A. Antonopoulos. Mastering Ethereum.

Recommended literature:

A. Narayanan, J. Bonneau, E. Felten, A. Miller, S. Goldfeder. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies. 2016 A. Antonopoulos, O. Osuntokun, R- Pickhardt. Mastering Lightning Network.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

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E-learning

Other requirements

Basic Python knowledge is required.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. History of money, ledger, bitcoin introduction. 2. Field, elliptic curves. 3. Cryptographic hash functions. Private and public keys. Digital signature. WIF and BTC addresses. 4. Wallet. Transactions. 5. Bitcoin network. Blockchain and Merkel tree. Proof-of-work and mining. 6. Ethereum blockchain basics. 7. Ethereum clients, wallets, and transactions. 8. Smart contracts and Solidity programming language. 9. Token a Oracle 10. Second layer applications 11. Decentralized applications

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 2022/2023 Winter semester)
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Graded credit Graded credit 100  51 3
Mandatory attendence participation: Students have to attend the exercises, create a project and pass the test.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: Completion of all mandatory tasks within individually agreed deadlines.

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2023/2024 (N0688A140015) Industry 4.0 P English Ostrava 1 Optional study plan
2023/2024 (N0613A140035) Computer Science P English Ostrava 1 Optional study plan
2022/2023 (N0688A140015) Industry 4.0 P English Ostrava 1 Optional study plan
2022/2023 (N0613A140035) Computer Science P English Ostrava 1 Optional study plan

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