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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

    The Syllabus

    • Introduction – basic ideas behind blockchain, how it is changing the landscape of digitalization, introduction to cryptographic concepts required

    • Hashing, public key cryptosystems, private vs public blockchain and use cases, Hash Puzzles, Introduction to Bitcoin Blockchain

    • Bitcoin Blockchain and scripts, Use cases of Bitcoin Blockchain scripting language in micropayment, escrow etc Downside of Bitcoin – mining .

    • Alternative coins – Ethereum and Smart contracts

    • Alternative coins – Ethereum continued, IOTA

    • The real need for mining – consensus – Byzantine Generals Problem, and Consensus as a distributed coordination problem – Coming to private or permissioned blockchains – Introduction to Hyperledger

    • Permissioned Blockchain and use cases – Hyperledger, Corda

    • Uses of Blockchain in E-Governance, Land Registration, Medical Information Systems, and others

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