Blockchain Technologies and Applications

Catalog description

Blockchain is a technology platform that is intended to overcome trust barriers among different parties over the Internet. Blockchain is attracting significant flows of capital and talent. The course focuses on the components of blockchain technologies, and surveys the competing platforms available. The course examines potential applications of blockchain technologies in domains as wide ranging as finance to logistics to healthcare in light of various societal, legal, and monetary implications. This course also traces the history of cryptocurrencies and the relationship between ryptocurrencies and blockchain.