Week #	Dates	Topic
1	8/23, 8/25 (HW1 Out)	Distributed Systems (W.Ch14) and Crash Failures (W.Ch15-16)
2	8/30, 9/1 (HW1 Due)	Byzantine Agreement (W.Ch17) and Broadcast & Shared Coins (W.Ch18)
3	9/6, 9/8 (HW2 Out)	Eventual Consistency (W.Ch23), Finite Fields (S.Ch1), and Elliptical Curves (S.Ch2)
4	9/13, 9/15 (HW2 Due)	Elliptical Curve Cryptography (S.Ch3) and Serialization (S.Ch4)
5	9/20, 9/22 (HW3 Out)	Transactions/Locktime (S.Ch5) and Smart Contracts (W.Ch23)
6	9/27, 9/29 (HW3 Due)	Script (S.Ch6) and Transaction Creation, Validation (S.Ch7)
7	10/4, 10/6	Review for Exam I and Exam I
8	10/11, 10/13	Fall Break (Tuesday) and Multisig (S.Ch8)
9	10/18, 10/20 (HW4 Out)	Proof of Stake (W.Ch24) and Blocks, Proof of Work (S.Ch9, A.Ch10)
10	10/25, 10/27 (HW4 Due)	Networking (A.Ch8,S.Ch10) and Guest Speaker: Dr. Dhiren Patel (Blockchain in Food Security)
11	11/1, 11/3 (HW5 Out)	Power Outage (11/1) and Simplified Payment Verification (S.Ch11)
12	11/8, 11/10 (HW5 Due)	Bloom Filters (S.Ch12) and Segregated Witness (S.Ch13)
13	11/15, 11/17	Project Proposals (time permitting: Review for Exam II)
14	11/22, 11/24	Exam II and Thanksgiving
15	11/29, 12/1	Project Work and Meetings with Dr. Camp
16	12/9 8-11am	Project Presentations (Embrey 129)

The content for each lecture is drawn from the following resources (ordered from most used to least used):
S: Jimmy Song, Programming Bitcoin: Learn How to Program Bitcoin from Scratch, 1st Edition, O'Reilly, 2019, ISBN 1492031496.
W: Updated version of notes from Roger Wattenhofer, Blockchain Science: Distributed Ledger Technology, 3rd Edition. These notes are available online: here.
A: Andreas Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly, 2017, ISBN 1491954388.

*This is a best-effort schedule as of the beginning of the semester and subject to change according to the time available in the semester.