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Lecture 22: Alternative Consensus Mechanisms

Dr. Neha Narula and Tadge Dryja · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dr. Neha Narula, Tadge Dryja. Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design. Spring 2018. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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  1. Lecture 1: Signatures, Hashing, Hash Chains, e-cash, and Motivation 1 h 7 min · Video
  2. Lecture 2: Proof of Work and Mining 1 h 23 min · Video
  3. Lecture 3: Signatures 1 h 15 min · Video
  4. Lecture 4: Transactions and the UTXO Model 1 h 13 min · Video
  5. Lecture 5: Synchronization Process, Pruning 1 h 13 min · Video
  6. Lecture 6: SPV and Wallet Types 1 h 8 min · Video
  7. Lecture 7: OP_RETURN and Catena 1 h 22 min · Video
  8. Lecture 8: Forks 1 h 22 min · Video
  9. Lecture 10: PoW Recap, Other Fork Types 1 h 5 min · Video
  10. Lecture 11: Fees 1 h 18 min · Video
  11. Lecture 12: Transaction Malleability and Segregated Witness 1 h 16 min · Video
  12. Lecture 13: Payment Channels and Lightning Network 1 h 20 min · Video
  13. Lecture 14: Lightning Network and Cross-chain Swaps 1 h 1 min · Video
  14. Lecture 15: Discreet Log Contracts 1 h 16 min · Video
  15. Lecture 16: MAST, Taproot, Graftroot 1 h 17 min · Video
  16. Lecture 17: Anonymity, Coinjoin and Signature Aggregation 1 h 14 min · Video
  17. Lecture 18: Confidential Transactions 1 h 21 min · Video
  18. Lecture 22: Alternative Consensus Mechanisms 1 h 21 min · Video
  19. Lecture 23: New Directions in Crypto 1 h 12 min · Video
  20. Lecture 24: zkLedger 1 h 14 min · Video