Corso: Peer to Peer and Blockchains 2020

Attività settimanale

Introduzione
- Announcements Forum
- Student Forum
- Peer to Peer Systems and Blockchains A.A. 2019-20
  Code: ---AA, Credits (ECTS): 6, Semester: 2, Official Language: English
  Instructor: Laura Ricci
  Didactic Support: Andrea Lisi
  Contact: email laura.ricci@unipi.it - phone 050 2212768
  Skype: lauraemiliaricci
  Office: Room 348, Dipartimento di Informatica, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, Pisa
  Question Time: Thursday, 15-18
  Timetable:
  Day
  
  Time
  
     Room
  
  Wednesday
     11-13
  N1
  Friday 14-16    L1
  
  I have enabled self enrollment, please enroll, otherwise you cannot receive the messages from the forum
  From March 8th 2020, the question time will be held online, on our Meet Room. Students can send me an e-mail to fix a call.
- ASSIGNMENTS
  The students must choose and resolve ONLY ONE of the two following Mid-Terms. The deadline for the submission is April 17th 2020.
  GRADES
  A+ 30 with honours
  A 29-30
  B 26-28
  C 23-25
  D 18-22
  E not passed
  MID TERM
- Mid Term 1: Monitoring the InterPlanetary File System Compito
- Mid Term 2: Distributed Hash Tables Compito
- FINAL TERM
  THe Deadline for the Submission of this assignment is June 5th, 2020
- Bitcoin, Ethereum and Complex Networks Compito
- FINAL PROJECTS
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  The exam will be scheduled in the week following each date. The contribution of the assignments to the final rank is defined as follows:
  
  25% MidTerm
  25% Final Term
  50% Final Project
  
  Mid Term, Final Term and Final Project are valid till April 2021
  
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  The student must submit ONLY ONE of the following final projects. The text of each project contains the instructions for the submission of the project.
- Pandemic Mobile Flu: Virus Diffusion in Mobile Environments Compito
- BitCollect: a decentralized crowdfunding platform Compito
- THESIS PROPOSALS
- Thesis on blockchain and complex network analysis File
- COURSE EVALUATION
  We invite the students to fill the following *form*, which will allow us to improve the quality of the course for the next years. The form is completely anonymous and requires only 5 minutes to compile.
- CLASS NOTES
19 February
- Course Introduction File
- Didactic Material
- Do you really need a blockchain? File
21 February
- Unstructured Overlays, CDN File
26 February
- Consistent Hashing, Introdution to DHTs File
28 February
- Distributed Hash Tables: Chord File
4 March
- Distributed Hash Tables: Kademlia File
11 March
- DHT Applications, DHT Attacks File
13 March
- Cryptographic Tools for DHTs and Blockchains File
18 March
- Data Structure for IPFS and Blockchains File
20 March
- IPFS: The Interplanetary File System, the DHT Level
- Didactic Material
- The Sloppy DHT File
- S/Kademlia File
25 March
- NAT Transversal. IPFS: Bitswap, IPLD, IPNS File
- Didactic Material
- Techniques for NAT transversal File
27 March
- Blockchain: basic concepts File
1 April
- Bitcoin: Transaction and Scripts File
3 April
- Bitcoin: transactions and Scripts File
- Didactic Material
- Bitcon's notes of Prof. Saravanan Vijayakumara, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay File
- A very nice book on Bitcoin is "Grokking Bitcoin", Kalle Resenbaum, Manning, 2019, just published. I have a copy of the book, who is interested can send me an e-mail.
8 April
- Nakamoto Consensus: Mining File
17 April
- Mining Pools, Attacks, SPV File
22 April
- Ethereum:accounts, transactions, gas File
24 April
- Programming Smart Contracts in Solidity File
- Didactic Material
  Solidity 0.6.6 Documentation
29 April
- Development Environments for Smart Contracts: introduction. Andrea Lisi's guest lecture File
- Development Environments for Smart Contracts: Truffle. Andrea Lisi's guest lecture File
6 May
8 May
- Complex Networks Models and Applications File
13 May
- Off Chain Channels: the Lightning Network File
- Didactic Material
- Lightning Network paper File
15 May
20 May
- Byzantine Consensus and Hyperledger File
22 May
- Blockchains use cases: Enterprises and Government File
- Industrial Applications: presentation of Links foundation File

Day	Time	Room
Wednesday	11-13	N1
Friday	14-16	L1

Attività settimanale

Introduzione

Peer to Peer Systems and Blockchains A.A. 2019-20

I have enabled self enrollment, please enroll, otherwise you cannot receive the messages from the forum

From March 8th 2020, the question time will be held online, on our Meet Room. Students can send me an e-mail to fix a call.

ASSIGNMENTS

GRADES

MID TERM

FINAL TERM

FINAL PROJECTS

***********************************************************************************************************************The exam will be scheduled in the week following each date. The contribution of the assignments to the final rank is defined as follows:

25% MidTerm 25% Final Term 50% Final Project

Mid Term, Final Term and Final Project are valid till April 2021

*************************************************************************************************************************

THESIS PROPOSALS

COURSE EVALUATION

We invite the students to fill the following *form*, which will allow us to improve the quality of the course for the next years. The form is completely anonymous and requires only 5 minutes to compile.

CLASS NOTES

19 February

Didactic Material

21 February

26 February

28 February

4 March

11 March

13 March

18 March

20 March

Didactic Material

25 March

Didactic Material

27 March

1 April

3 April

Didactic Material

A very nice book on Bitcoin is "Grokking Bitcoin", Kalle Resenbaum, Manning, 2019, just published. I have a copy of the book, who is interested can send me an e-mail.

8 April

17 April

22 April

24 April

Didactic Material

29 April

6 May

Code Examples

8 May

13 May

Didactic Material

15 May

Didactic Material

20 May

22 May

***********************************************************************************************************************
The exam will be scheduled in the week following each date. The contribution of the assignments to the final rank is defined as follows:

25% MidTerm
25% Final Term
50% Final Project

We invite the students to fill the following form, which will allow us to improve the quality of the course for the next years. The form is completely anonymous and requires only 5 minutes to compile.