Basics of distributed ledger technology. -Public Ledgers- distributed ledger technology as Public Ledgers-Types of distributed ledger technology- Pillars of Block chain- Government Initiatives of distributed ledger technology – Bitcoin – Smart Contracts.
Block in a Block chain-find Transactions-Distributed Consensus-Proof of work, Stake, Space-Attacks on POW-Ethereum-Pos/POW Hybrids-Crypto currency to block chain 2.0, Model of Blockchain- Algorand.
Hash Function and Merle Tree-Security Properties-Security Considerations for block chain Digital Signature-Public Key Cryptography-Bitcoin blockchain incentive structures- Nash Equilibriums- evolutionary stable strategies,-and Pareto efficiency (game theory) Weaknesses and news Points of Failure, Mitigation Methods, Redundancies and fall-back methods.
Mining-Pools-Impact of CPU and GPU-Transaction in Bit coin Network- Block Mining Block propagation and block relay.
Industry applications of Blockchain - Blockchain in Government-Government use cases-Preventing Cybercrime through block chain-Block Chain in defense, tax payments.
Reference Book:
William Stallings, “Cryptography and Network security Principles and Practices”, Pearson/PHI,2017. William Stallings, Network Security Essentials (Applications and Standards), Pearson Education, India,2017
Text Book:
.Imran Bashir, “Mastering Blockchain: Distributed Ledger Technology, decentralization, and smart contracts explained”, 2nd Edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, March 2018. Bellaj Badr, Richard Horrocks, Xun (Brian) Wu, “Blockchain By Example: A developer's guide to creating decentralized applications using Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hyperledger”, Packt Publishing Limited, 2018. 1. Brojo Kishore Mishra , Sanjay Kumar Kuanar “Handbook of IoT and Blockchain: Methods, Solutions,and Recent Advancements (Internet of Everything (IoE)) “, CRC Press; 1st edition , November 2020. Ganesh Prasad Kumble, “Practical Aritifical Intelligence and Blockchain”, First Edition. Packt Publishing Lts, July 2020.
