A lecture series from MIT on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies, covering how the underlying systems work, including hashing, consensus, and proof-of-work mining. It is distributed as a YouTube playlist.

One commenter calls it an incredible MIT course that explains how proof-of-work and consensus fit together, and says it inspired their site.

What commenters said (1)

1. Strongly recommendsquirino2024in “Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash”

   The hashing is about consensus. It's related how a low hash stands as proof of computational power, you can't just fake it.

   The "adding more zeros" is done automatically, according to an algorithm, so that the time between blocks is more or less the same.

   There's this incredible MIT course about all of this, it's where I got the idea for the site from: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61KHzhg3JIJdK08...

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