Software Engineering

Bitcoin Theory covers the design of Bitcoin as a system as prescribed by Satoshi Nakamoto. This course is open to anyone who is interested in Bitcoin and is the beginner course in this series. Some technical experience would be helpful to complete the course, however it is open to anyone regardless of experience. Upon completion of this course, students will be awarded a certificate of completion.

Bitcoin Development focuses on the formative skills and crucial concepts to successfully build applications with Bitcoin. Upon completion of this course, students will be awarded a certificate of completion.

Introduction to Bitcoin Infrastructure is focused on providing students with a solid understanding of the role that nodes and node operators play in the construction of the network. In particular, it focuses on the incentives that drive enterprise operators to invest in scaling and infrastructure. Upon completion of this course, students will be awarded a certificate of completion.

A basic explanation of digital signature schemes - ECDSA, which are fundamental building blocks in the Bitcoin protocol.

This course will cover how in Bitcoin, Merkle trees serve to encode blockchain data more efficiently and securely.

In this course students will learn how hash functions are used in Bitcoin. The course will provide a basic overview of what hash functions are and ways they are used to secure Bitcoin.

This short course will cover the concepts that underpin Bitcoin script as a language that defines how transactions may be spent.