Dan Boneh: Blockchain Primitives: Cryptography and Consensus

Stanford professor Dan Boneh teaches “Blockchain Primitives: Cryptography and Consensus,” providing an introduction to the cryptographic foundation of blockchains and how developers can use them to build new types of applications.

Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup School brought together 45 participants from around the U.S. and overseas in a seven-week course to learn how to build crypto companies. Andreessen Horowitz is partnering with TechCrunch to release the online version of the course over the next few weeks.

[vladusa]

Literally one of the best teachers in the field.

[evangelinewebster]

I'M NEW TO CRYPTO TRADING WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GET STARTED WITH TRADE COS I'VE BEEN MAKING MY PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR A WHILE NOW I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TRADE ON CRYPTOCURRENCY?

[cogitari]

Outstanding review of the state of the art for 2020. It's interesting to see how fast this area has changed since 2020 and is still changing in 2022. Professor Dan Boneh has a great perspective and I enjoy his fast paced review of the most relevant topics.

[joshtaylor]

Love the passion. Fantastic walk through. Very exciting! Thank you :)

[sanjibanichoudhury]

Are there any documentations, for these courses, plz share

[PippyPappyPatterson]

goes to show how valuable that "impossibility proof" was

[aromax]

Can you do a current state of SNARK in a full video series

[junmeng]

Love this talk. Thanks Professor Boneh!

[meggyfest]

REALLY REALLY, enjoyed it from Kenya 😊

[AlexReyes]

Really cool stuff. Thanks for putting this on youtube for everyone :)

[JohnDoe-wqcp]

Proof of Burn was mentioned in bitcoin wiki back in 2012 and has now been implemented by Koinos blockchain. I wonder if Dan is aware of this consensus algorithm.

[abhiorig]

7:52 info: there is a Blockchain where the miner order is randomly find & also the transactions are queued as the per the request....i.e. no alteration like in Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc...
The Blockchain is EOSIO.

13:33 the EOSIO has reached a max. of 4000 txns/sec.. with EOS being the highest used for < 40% of capability.

17:27 Solidity is not the best language for Blockchain. Moreover, newer the language is, higher is the risk of bugs. EOSIO uses C++, which is a God Language since 1986. C++ has been explored way more times than Solidity, be it in terms of security.

[kgll]

great insight.. my notes tell me to buy more Sia

[SimulationSeries]

This was awesome, thank you Dan, a16z, TC!

[frankly]

nice lecture except for the unwarranted bashing of PoW. There are many reasons why, despite all the bad press that BTC is getting from this professor and others, BTC is still king, and will stay king for a long long time.

[lqtube]

"students end up finding 10 bugs" LOL

[TheValerievampire]

I still didn't understand zero knowledge proof. I don't like being introduced to a concept without teaching how it works exactly.

[technologyandinnovation]

Ask any audience a question as to how many of the attendees have loans, credit, mortgage, securities etc. Everyone has one, in fact, everyone in United States has one, in fact, US economy runs on it. In the Blockchain world there is no concept of it ... "it's not about there is no application yet" but it's more like, in physicist language, there is no mechanism.
Unless this is addressed, its just a novel idea.

[srinathkunapareddy]

You can say someone is a great teacher if they start with the first principles and then build on top. I don't see that happening here. There is no follow on material shared too. These high level explanations just obfuscate true understanding,

[suelainedinucci]

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