23 Jan 2020
By Charles Stack

Bitcoin Lightning Network Online Courses

Lightning Network, Tutorials
There are not yet many online courses strictly focused on the lightning network. But here are a few Bitcoin courses that we recommend that provide an excellent background for understanding lightning. Payment Channels and Lightning Network, MIT, 2018, Lectures 13 and 14, Tadge Dryja (leading expert). Great graduate-level lectures. Part of a very good bitcoin course entitled Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design. Very technical (It is a graduate-level MIT course), but interesting and relevant. Really shows the deep complexity lurking behind the Lightning Network. Blockchain and Bitcoin Fundamentals, Udemy, $11.00. 3 hours of video instruction and a nice pdf glossary. Introduction…
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23 Jan 2020
By Charles Stack

Learning Crypto Online – Week 1

Lightning Network, Tutorials,
I just passed my first quiz with a score of 83.3%. Yay! I just concluded week one of a 12 week MOOC (massive open online course) offered by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. The title of the course is Introduction to Digital Currencies. The course is mostly self-study with a set of excellent bibliographies for each week, a one hour lecture Q&A, and a weekly quiz. I signed up for this course partly because one of the lecturers is Andreas Antonopoulos, one of the truly inspirational figures in the bitcoin space. I am also reviewing all the various crypto educational…
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