Cryptocurrency and the Smileycoin¶
- Introduction to cryptocurrencies
- Bitcoin and Smileycoin basics
- Picking up a wallet
- Compiling the wallet
- Introduction to the SMLY command line
- Basic cryptocurrency economics
- The transaction
- The block and the blockchain
- Cryptocurrency mining
- Cryptography and cryptocurrencies
- Hash function introduction
- Elliptic curves
- The trilogy: tutor-web, Smileycoin and Education in a Suitcase
- The SmileyCoin Fund
- Splitting the coinbase: No longer just a miner’s fee
- Staking and proof-of-stake
- The tutor-web as a faucet
- The command line from a Linux script
- Building slightly more complex transactions on the command line
- Cryptocurrency exchanges
- API access to exchanges
- Automation on the blockchain (stores, ATM, gambling etc)
- The Bitcoin programming language
- Fun and games with Bitcoin
- The SmileyCoin Fund revisited
- Atomic swaps
- More on atomic swaps and smart contracts
Copyright¶
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