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Course, academic year 2023/2024
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Blockchain and its world impact - AISV5956
Title: Blockchain and its world impact
Guaranteed by: Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship (21-UISK)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 28 (8)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Matěj Krejčiřík
Teacher(s): Mgr. Matěj Krejčiřík
Annotation -
Last update: Bc. Klára Foglarová (04.01.2024)
The subject introduces students to the issues surrounding blockchain and its fundamental aspects, specifically
community management, security, monetary systems, and ecology. The goal is to familiarize students with the
historical development of this technology up to the present, enabling them to understand on their own the purpose and
potential applications in various industries.
The completion requirements for the course
To fulfill the requirements of the course, it is necessary to attend and pass the final exam.
Week 1
- Cypherpunk
- Asymmetric cryptography
- Cryptoanarchy
- Surveillance
- Attempts at freedom money
Week 2
Money and its history from ancient times to the present.
Week 3
Bitcoin oriented
- Genesis block
- Transaction
- Merkle tree
- Sha256
- Byzantine General Problem
- Proof of Work
- Inflation
- Anonymity
Week 4
Bitcoin oriented
- Mining
- Hard Forks
- Soft Fork
- Bitcoin addresses
- Shnorr signatures
- Taproot
Week 5
Altcoin oriented
- Proof of Stake
- Vectors of attack
- Tokenomics
- Examples
Week 6
Bitcoin oriented
- Philosophy of abstraction layers
- Scaling
- Types of layers
- Lightning network
- Liquid
Week 7
Continuation
- RGB
- Smart contracts
- Storm
- Eltoo
Week 8
Trading and speculations
- Time preferences
- Volatility
- Crypto seasons
- Graphs
- Scams
- Strategies
- Staking
Week 9
Trends
- ICO
- Airdrops
- Tokenization
- Aidrops
- dApps
- DAO
- DEX
- DeFi
- NFT
- Memes
Week 10
DAOs indepth
- Decentralized communities
- Governance
- Examples
Week 11
Presentation of my project – Agora, a tool for building decentralized, modular and interoperable platforms for users to
connect share and govern their communities collectively.

PS the lessons tend to take longer then 1,5h :).

Credits 3
Frequency every Monday
 
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