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    Blockchain and Ethereum resources

From the Coursera Specialization
Course 1 - Blockchain Basics

Week 1

Bitcoin and Blockchain

Paper: Bitcoin Whitepaper

Paper: Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree

Website: What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners

Website: Blockchain: The Invisible Technology That's Changing the World
Blockchain Structure

Website: Unspent Transaction Output, UTXO

Website: Unspent Transaction Output, UTXO (different source)

Website: How the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto
Basic Operations

Website: How does the Blockchain Work? (Part 1)

Website: How Does the Blockchain Work?
Beyond Bitcoin

Website: A Gentle Introduction to Blockchain Technology

Website: On Public and Private Blockchains

Website: What is Cryptocurrency. Guide for Beginners

Website: 2017 Was Bitcoin's Year. 2018 Will Be Ethereum's

Website: What is Cryptocurrency: Everything You Need To Know

Website: What is the Difference Between Public and Permissioned Blockchains?
Week 2

Smart Contracts

Website: Smart Contracts: The Blockchain Technology That Will Replace Lawyers

Website: Introduction to Smart Contracts

Website: What is Ethereum?
Ethereum Structure

Paper: Smart Contracts: A White Paper

Website: Account Management

Website: Native: Account management
Ethereum Operations

Website: How Ethereum Works

Website: What Is Meant By The Term “Gas”?
Incentive Model

Website: Vitalik Buterin Doubles Down on Ethereum Incentive Strategy

Website: Ether

Website: Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake: Basic Mining Guide
Week 3

Algorithms and Techniques

Website: What Is Public-Key Cryptography?

Website: Asymmetric Cryptography (Public-Key Cryptography)

Video: Public Key Cryptography - Computerphile
Hashing

Website: What Is Hashing? Under The Hood of Blockchain

Video: SHA: Secure Hashing Algorithm - Computerphile

Website: Hash Functions

Website: Blockchain Demo
Transaction Integrity

Website: How Safe Are Blockchains? It Depends.
Website: Blockchains: Embedding Integrity
Securing Blockchain

Website: Securing the Blockchain

Website: Is It Chain of Headers Rather Than a Chain of Blocks?

Website: What is a Block Header in Bitcoin?
Week 4

Decentralized Systems

Website: Blockchain Based Trust & Authentication For Decentralized Sensor Networks

Video: How the Blockchain will Radically Transform the Economy
Consensus Protocol

Website: A (Short) Guide to Blockchain Consensus Protocols

Website: Review of blockchain consensus mechanisms

Video: Blockchain Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
Robustness

Website: How The Blockchain Is Redefining Trust
Forks

Website: Have Blockchain Forks Shown Hayek to be Right or Wrong?

Website: Split on Forks? Blockchain Leaders Learn Tough Lessons from Bitcoin Scaling

Video: Bitcoin, Blockchain Forks & Lightning
Course 2 - Smart Contracts

Week 1

Why Smart Contracts?

Paper: Smart Contract: Building blocks for digital markets

Website: How to Learn Solidity: The Ultimate Ethereum Coding Guide

Website: Remix- Solidity IDE
Smart Contracts Defined

Website: Structure of a Contract

Website: Camel Case

Website: Introduction to Smart Contracts
Processing Smart Contracts

Website: Account Types, Gas, and Transactions
Deploying Smart Contracts

Website: Ethereum, Tokens, and Smart Contracts

Website: Decoding the Enigma of Bitcoin Mining
Week 2

Solidity Structure

Website: What is Solidity? Our Guide to the Language of Ethereum Smart Contracts

Video: Intro to Solidity 2017 Edition

Video: Ethereum Smart Contracts In Solidity 1 - State, Functions, Modifiers and Events
Basic Data Types & Statements

Website: Solidity Frequently Asked Questions

Website: Types
Specific Data Types

Video: Learning Solidity : Tutorial 6 Data Types (Array, Mapping, Struct)

Website: Units and Globally Available Variables

Website: Solidity Tutorials
Data Structures

Website: Types

Website: Enums

Website: Liquid Democracy uses Blockchain to Fix Politics, and Now You Can Vote for It
Access Modifiers & Applications

Website: Contracts
Week 3

Developing Smart Contracts

Website: Voting
Time Elements

Website: Enum

Website: Time Units
Validation & Test

Website: Solidity Learning: Revert(), Assert(), and Require() in Solidity, and the New REVERT Opcode in the EVM
Client Applications

Website: Technical Introduction to Events and Logs in Ethereum

Video: Capturing Smart Contract Events in our User Interface (Solidity)
Week 4

Course 3

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Course 4 - Blockchain Platforms

Week 1

Linux's Hyperledger

Website: About hyperledger

Website: Hyperledger tutorial

Video: What is Hyperledger? Brian Behlendorf Explains the Linux Foundation's Blockchain Initiative

Website: Hyperledger Fabric

Video: An introduction to Hyperledger Fabric from The Linux Foundation

Website: Microsoft And The Blockchain: MSFT's Big Projects

Website: Blockchain as a Service (Baas)
Fabric Services

Video: Main three components of Hyperledger Fabric

Website: Peer channel-based event services

Website: Architecture Explained

Website: APIs - CLI, REST, and Node.js

Video: Blockchain Development on Hyperledger Fabric using Composer : What is Hyperledger?
Fabric Model and Functions

Website: Hyperledger Fabric Model

Article: Hyperledger Fabricdocs Documentation

Article: Hyperledger Architecture, Volume 1

Video: How to Write a Model (.cto) File For Hyperledger Fabric
Composer

Video/Website: Hyperledger Composer

Video: What is Hyperledger Composer from The Linux Foundation with Dan Selman

Website: Hyperledger Composer Modeling Language

Article: Model and test your blockchain network
Microsoft Azure

Website: What is Microsoft Azure, Anyway?

Video: Tour of Microsoft Azure

Website: Simplifying blockchain app development with Azure Blockchain Workbench
Week 2

Augur

Website: What Is Augur?

Paper: Augur white paper

Website: Augur: The World’s Most Undervalued Crypto Project

Video: Augur in 2 Minutes
Grid+

Website: ConsenSys Introduces Grid-Based Solution For Energy Inefficiency

Video: GridPlus - What is Grid+?

Paper: GRID+ white paper
Week 3

Consensus

Website: Basic Primer: Blockchain Consensus Protocol

Website: Consensus Achieved Using Proof-of-Work

Video: Consensus and Mining on the Blockchain

Video: How nodes reach a consensus on a blockchain
Scalability

Website: Blockchain Scalability: When, Where, How?

Website: Scalability Tradeoffs: Why “The Ethereum Killer” Hasn’t Arrived Yet

Video: Can Blockchain Solve Its Scalability Problem?

Video: Brock Pierce from Blockchain Capital explains the scalability problems for Bitcoin
Privacy & Confidentiality

Website: SOLVING BLOCKCHAIN'S PRIVACY PROBLEM

Website: Smart Contracts: Privacy vs Confidentiality

Website and video: Can This Man Build a Better Bitcoin?
Escrow & Multi-sig

Website: Two party contracts

Website: How A Smart Contract replaced An Escrow Company in a $60k deal

Video: Ultimate Intro to Ethereum Ðapp Development [Part 8] - Smart Contracts - Escrow

Video: BURST Decentralize Escrow Service Smart Contracts

Website: Toward an Ethereum Multisig Standard
Week 4

Interplanetary File System (IPFS)

Website: What is the InterPlanetary File System?

Video: IPFS Alpha Demo

Paper: IPFS white paper

Website: An Introduction to IPFS

Video: An Introduction to The Interplanetary File System

Video: The next Internet Revolution | Juan Benet | TEDxSanFrancisco

Website: What's Yeoman?
Hashgraph

Article: Hashgraph Consensus: Detailed Examples

Video: What Is Hedera Hashgraph?

Website: Hashgraph wants to give you the benefits of blockchain without the limitations

Website: Demystifying Hashgraph: Benefits and Challenges

Website: Hedera Hashgraph Thinks It Can One-Up Bitcoin And Ethereum With Faster Transactions

Video: What is Hashgraph and how will it replace the Blockchain?!
Blockchain: Social Imperative

Website: Commentary: How Blockchain Could Replace Social Security Numbers

Website: Blockchain and U.S. state governments: An initial assessment