Motivation of Blockchain

In this session we will be going over the following topics:

• Financial Crisis 2008 / Monetary Policy 2020-now
• Impact of poor monetary policy (Turkey/ Argentina)
• Bitcoin Whitepaper and History
• What is Money

Session 1 Slides

Assignments

Complete the following readings:

• Blockchain And Distributed Ledgers: Mathematics, Technology, And Economics Chapters 1 & 2