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    • Announcements Forum
    • Final Term/Project Questions Forum

    • Peer to peer systems and blockchains 20/21

      Teacher : Laura Ricci
      Support : Andrea Lisi

      Lecture Timetable:

      Wednesday 11.00  - 13.00  VIRTUAL ROOM
      Thursday       9.00  - 11.00  VIRTUAL ROOM 

      LINK TEAM: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3af43c96b4aabc4d9c91b1925f1c95465e%40thread.tacv2/Generale?groupId=4498b374-ee66-4cf7-a624-2eb3ab282035&tenantId=c7456b31-a220-47f5-be52-473828670aa1

      Exam rules:
      • project (mandatory)
      • oral test which can be replaced by  MidTerm AND FinalTerm
      • MidTerm and FinalTerm: implementing a simple piece of code OR writing a report on some course topic (scientific papers, blog, ...)
      You can enroll in the course, I have activated Self Enrollment, so I can send you messages by the Announcement Forum. 
      Question time is on Thursday, 15.00 - 18.00, in the Team Virtual Room of the Course.  Please e-mail me to fix a meeting in the virtual room.  

    • PROPOSALS OF MASTER THESIS


    • Master Thesis Proposals File

    • GRADES FOR MID, FINAL AND PROJECT


      A+ 30 with honors

      A    28-30

      B    25-27

      C    22-24

      D    18-21

      E    not passed


    • MID TERM

      Deadline 18 April, 12 PM

    • Sharing content in IPFS: monitoring the bitswap protocol Assignment
    • Analysis of CAN, a Content Addressable Network Assignment


    • FINAL TERM

      Deadline 1 June 2021, 12 PM

    • Sayonara, my Major! / Bitcoin's scams Assignment

    • FINAL PROJECTS 
      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.

    • The attempt of a democratic election system Assignment
    • Bitcoin Transactions: Analysis and De-Anonimyzation Assignment


    • EXAM RULES:

      During June-July 2021, the exams will be held by appointment, the dates published on the University site are only relative to the registration for the exam.  The student submits her/his project and, after about a week, we will fix a date for the discussion of the midterm, of the final term and of the project. Contextually, the student must pass the oral exam if his/her mid/final has not been positively evaluated (rating < D).

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      The weight of the different parts of the course is the following:
      25% Mid Term 
      25% Final Term 
      50% Final Project 

      Mid and Final Term and the Final Project are valid till April 2022
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  • 17 February

    • Introduction

    • Didactic Material

    • Do you need a blockchain? File

  • 18 February

    • Unstructured Overlays

  • 24 February

    • Distributed Hash Tables: Introduction

  • 25 February

    • Chord

  • 3 March

    • The Kademlia DHT

  • 4 March

    • Bittorrent Protocol

  • 10 March

    • A Crypthographic Toolbox for DHT and Blockchain

  • 11 March

    • NAT Transversal


  • 17 March

    • Attacks to P2P Protcol

  • 18 March

    • Interplanetary File System: Linked Data

  • 24 March

    • IPFS: IPNS, Bitswap, the DHT

  • 25 March

    • Data Structures for Blockchain

  • 31 March

    • Blockchain: introduction

  • 1 April

    • Bitcoin: Addresses, Transactions and Scripts

  • 14 April

    • The Bitcoin Blockchain: consensus

  • 15 April

    • Bitcoin: attacks, mining pools, P2P network

  • 21 April

    • Ethereum: smart contracts, transactions, gas

  • 28 April

    • Programming smart contracts: Solidity

  • 29 April

    • Andrea Lisi guest lecture: Ethereum Smart Contract development (part 1)

    • Andrea Lisi guest lecture: Ethereum Smart Contract Development (part 2)

  • 5 May

    • Smart Contract Vulnerabilities, the Ethereum Blockchain

  • 6 May

    • Dapp Tutorial File

    • Scaling Blockchain

    • Andrea's Lisi Lab: Ethereum DAPP development

  • 12 May

    • Off-chain payments: the Lightning Network

  • 13 May

    • Alternative Consensus: Quorum Based Systems, PBFT

  • 20 May

    • Pure Proof of Stake: Algorand

    • Blockchain Applications