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Dan Boneh: Blockchain Primitives: Cryptography and Consensus

Stanford professor Dan Boneh teaches “Blockchain Primitives: Cryptography and Consensus,” providing an introduction to the cryptographic foundation of blockchains and how developers can use them to build new types of applications. Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup School brought together 45 participants from around the U.S. and overseas in a seven-week course to learn how to build…

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Stanford professor Dan Boneh teaches “Blockchain Primitives: Cryptography and Consensus,” providing an introduction to the cryptographic foundation of blockchains and how developers can use them to build new types of applications.

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55 Comments

  1. Alex Reyes

    May 14, 2020 at 12:36 am

    Really cool stuff. Thanks for putting this on youtube for everyone 🙂

  2. Sanjibani Choudhury

    May 14, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    Are there any documentations, for these courses , plz share

    • a16z

      May 19, 2020 at 5:52 am

      All of the sessions can be found here:

  3. Nicolas Marshall

    May 14, 2020 at 8:17 pm

    Great presentation !

  4. Eric Bohn

    May 15, 2020 at 1:49 pm

    Besides GitCoin (), are there any other opportunities for developers and product people to get involved with blockchain hackathons?

  5. Prasad Khake

    May 16, 2020 at 7:18 am

    18:26 Shouldn’t it be Layer 3?

  6. Technology and Innovation

    May 22, 2020 at 11:42 am

    Ask any audience a question as to how many of the attendees have loans, credit, mortgage, securities etc. Everyone has one, in fact, everyone in United States has one, in fact, US economy runs on it. In the Blockchain world there is no concept of it … “it’s not about there is no application yet” but it’s more like, in physicist language, there is no mechanism.
    Unless this is addressed, its just a novel idea.

  7. KG ll

    June 3, 2020 at 12:31 am

    great insight.. my notes tell me to buy more Sia

  8. Tom Mathews

    June 7, 2020 at 7:50 am

    No masks? Any followup studies of Covid on the participants?

  9. Carlos Baeza

    June 24, 2020 at 4:36 am

    Amazing, thank you very much.

  10. Kenny Meyer

    July 1, 2020 at 3:53 pm

    This guy is a genius.

    • Nash Nixon

      March 8, 2021 at 6:57 am

      not sure if anyone cares at all but yesterday I hacked my girl friends Instagram password by using Instaportal. Just google for it xD

    • Abdullah Jesse

      March 8, 2021 at 7:08 am

      @Nash Nixon Trying it out right now. Looks promising.

  11. Mike

    July 1, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    Lol I made the Carbon Logo 🙂

  12. Greesha Mikhalkin

    July 11, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    Dan Boneh is great lecturer. There’s fantastic Crypto I course from him on Coursera. And, of course, legendary Crypto II, which i’ve been waiting for 8 years now)

  13. Grigoriy Mikhalkin

    July 11, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    Dan Boneh is great lecturer. There’s fantastic Crypto I course from him on Coursera. And, of course, legendary Crypto II, which i’ve been waiting for 8 years now)

  14. Carlos Missirian

    August 22, 2020 at 12:33 pm

    ????????

  15. Simulation

    September 9, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    This was awesome, thank you Dan, a16z, TC!

  16. Suelaine Dinucci

    September 27, 2020 at 2:12 am

    ????????????♒️????????????????????????????????????♒️SUEL A EVOLUÇÃO (tá YouTube)

  17. Abhijit Roy

    October 3, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    7:52 info: there is a Blockchain where the miner order is randomly find & also the transactions are queued as the per the request….i.e. no alteration like in Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc…
    The Blockchain is EOSIO.

    13:33 the EOSIO has reached a max. of 4000 txns/sec.. with EOS being the highest used for < 40% of capability. 17:27 Solidity is not the best language for Blockchain. Moreover, newer the language is, higher is the risk of bugs. EOSIO uses C++, which is a God Language since 1986. C++ has been explored way more times than Solidity, be it in terms of security.

  18. Panda w

    January 8, 2021 at 8:53 am

    Amazing teacher, thanks so much!

  19. Maryam Sheikhi

    February 3, 2021 at 2:51 pm

    genius and amazing professor

  20. Quy Tu

    March 2, 2021 at 6:07 pm

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  21. Kathleen o'donoghue

    March 12, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    It is crystal clear. Thank you!

  22. meggy fest

    March 19, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    REALLY REALLY, enjoyed it from Kenya ????

  23. Dennis

    February 5, 2022 at 4:11 pm

    Its sad this is considered “education” these days. Proof of stake is almost entirely centrally controlled. Defeats the entire purpose. Proof of work is agreeably horrible, but then calling proof of space “beautiful” is so irresponsibly dumb, its sad. Proof of space just takes the destructive energy of proof of work and instead uses sweatshop labor and manufactured physical computer parts namely hard drives. Sure rich Stanford snobs can ignore that proof of space is just as bad as proof of work for awhile as they avoid public realities. But it’s irresponsible to “educate” people with such problematic and incomplete systems as if they don’t have these issues.
    The uses of Blockchain are seen to be lame, insignificant but still have these real problems. Your just selling convuluted scientology tech, that’s this class ????

  24. Ron Beck

    March 3, 2022 at 1:59 pm

    DUH Blockchain architecture, dat will b chosen, will b da 1, Google buyz up.

    SMH

  25. Zorro. NQN

    March 4, 2022 at 9:14 pm

    Hola ,has un aporte a la paz en ucrania en dirección. Dios sabrá como recompensarte. Es creer que todo puede pasar.gracias por su aporte.

    34RQ2zzuNtyY25FamLh6CC2Q6YW5aWGzij

  26. Ryan

    March 16, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    Libra is not a consensual blockchain

  27. Ryan

    March 16, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    Dfinity is an obvious rug pull fraud anyone learning their joke of a language ought to do something better w their time

  28. Wyatt OrangeBlock

    April 2, 2022 at 4:56 am

    I don’t think this guy is genius. He has well understanding but the comments about proof of work. No.

    • Tao Paille-Paille

      April 27, 2022 at 1:48 am

      He is probably working on Proof of Stake projects

  29. Crypto-Lex

    April 7, 2022 at 11:16 pm

    Awesome! Thank you 🙂

  30. fakerman kumar

    April 16, 2022 at 6:24 am

    liked it

  31. Jun Meng

    April 30, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    Love this talk. Thanks Professor Boneh!

  32. Для просмотра

    May 20, 2022 at 6:12 am

    Thank you!

  33. Nimrod B

    June 24, 2022 at 11:40 am

    Amazing lecture

  34. Vlad

    June 26, 2022 at 10:51 pm

    Literally one of the best teachers in the field.

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    June 27, 2022 at 6:53 am

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  36. Dima Danylevych

    June 30, 2022 at 7:23 pm

    super garbage lecture. I learned a lot of mistakes and misconceptions. thank for the laugh

  37. MajorasMaskMailman

    July 10, 2022 at 6:07 pm

    16:52

  38. Frank Ly

    July 20, 2022 at 4:08 am

    nice lecture except for the unwarranted bashing of PoW. There are many reasons why, despite all the bad press that BTC is getting from this professor and others, BTC is still king, and will stay king for a long long time.

  39. Kryptstar Crypto

    August 9, 2022 at 6:45 am

    Luna to the MOON

  40. Nothing else matters

    August 10, 2022 at 6:53 am

    Dankeschön

  41. Zack Schmidt

    August 14, 2022 at 12:30 am

    Outstanding review of the state of the art for 2020. It’s interesting to see how fast this area has changed since 2020 and is still changing in 2022. Professor Dan Boneh has a great perspective and I enjoy his fast paced review of the most relevant topics.

  42. Kryptstar Crypto

    August 24, 2022 at 2:21 am

    Terra anchor was an amazing idea

  43. Kryptstar Crypto

    August 27, 2022 at 1:25 am

    Awesome! Thank you 🙂 LUNAMOONA

  44. John Doe

    September 21, 2022 at 7:15 am

    Proof of Burn was mentioned in bitcoin wiki back in 2012 and has now been implemented by Koinos blockchain. I wonder if Dan is aware of this consensus algorithm.

  45. Ram Das

    March 20, 2023 at 4:29 am

    He shills a lot of problematic VC pushed projects, which is obviously not apparent to the inexperienced audience. The best part is where they dress one of the symbolic users in a niqab, because why not add some misogyny to a talk about blockchains for no good reason. Women in Iran will love the symbolism.

  46. Srinath Kunapareddy

    March 23, 2023 at 1:21 pm

    You can say someone is a great teacher if they start with the first principles and then build on top. I don’t see that happening here. There is no follow on material shared too. These high level explanations just obfuscate true understanding,

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