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BSAN 355 - Blockchain and Digital Currency

Upper Division

Prerequisites
BSAN 205  OR CS 121 ; Minimum grade C-. 

In this course we cover the foundations, consensus algorithms, and fundamental architectures of various blockchain systems in use today.  This course will teach you to understand the differences between the blockchain technology of today and the former, less accessible and less transparent blockchains of decades past. You will dig into the mechanics of the [newer] Bitcoin blockchain protocol and how it ensures the longevity of a decentralized public ledger as well as how it gets consensus for approving transactions. With that knowledge you will then work to analyze what problem(s) blockchain technology aims to solve, how it solves them, and how to make sense of the promises that developers of new blockchain protocols make.

Repeatable
No

Course credits: 3


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