This is course aims to fulfill a necessity of teaching blockchain from introductory to developing advanced level applications, depending on the area, either as a deployable product or a well defined proposal. We hope to develop skilled students that are aware of the current and future technologies related to bitcoin architecture such as P2P networking, consensus protocols, wallets implementations, smart contracts, privacy and security requirements solved by the deployment of cryptography will be extensively discussed.

This course aims to teach the participants the crypto currencies, the history and the reasons resulted in crypto currencies invention, the technology as well as how the blockchain operates and the existing use cases. The current legislation will be investigated in worldwide and in some major countries. During the semester, the participants will evaluate and prepare presentations about crypto currency issuing or blockchain projects as the multidisipliner term project.

The objective of this course is to understand the blockchain technology, person-to-person (P2P) financial technologies, and the digital currency ecosystem, which are among the most important innovations of the past few years, and to learnthese topics in an applied manner.