Frontier · Module 14
A live experiment in rebuilding finance from cryptographic primitives. Assessed here the same way as everything else: what problem does the mechanism solve, and at what cost?
By the end of this module
You can evaluate a crypto system on its mechanism rather than its narrative.
What problem did Bitcoin actually solve?
Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008
Nine pages. Read it before any commentary on it.
Princeton University
Free textbook and lecture videos.
What becomes possible when money is programmable?
Which risks were removed, and which were merely renamed?
Bank for International Settlements, 2021
Quiz
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