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<h1
id="decrypting-crypto-course-leaders-tom-naps-and-brad-horn">Decrypting
Crypto – Course leaders Tom Naps and Brad Horn</h1>
<p>Welcome to the course home page for the winter 2024 OLLI course
“<em>Decrypting Crypto</em>”. The course will meet in Magrath Library
Room 8 for five Thursdays 12:30 - 2:00 starting January 18. Feel free to
contact Tom (<a href="mailto:thomas.naps@gmail.com"
class="uri">mailto:thomas.naps@gmail.com</a>) or Brad (<a
href="mailto:brad@saffroncapital.com"
class="uri">mailto:brad@saffroncapital.com</a>) anytime you have
questions or concerns about the course.</p>
<p><strong>Course description from OLLI catalog:</strong> Initially the
course will describe technical aspects of cryptocurrencies and, to a
lesser extent, NFTs. This will include the historical motivation behind
crypto and the roles played by public-key cryptography, blockchains,
consensus mechanisms, and mining methods in making crypto secure. The
course will also survey cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology
stocks available for investing, as well as their impact on portfolio
risk and return. Jeffrey Yost, Director of the Charles Babbage Institute
at UMN and author of the Blockchain and Society blog, will give a
concluding presentation.</p>
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<h2 id="course-outline">Course outline</h2>
<ul>
<li>Week 1 (Tom) - Historic motivation for cryptocurrency and the
cryptographic techniques they use. ( <a href="Jan18Rev1.pptx">Powerpoint
slides</a> ) ( <a href="Jan18Rev1.pdf">PDF version of slides</a> )</li>
<li>Week 2 (Tom) - Blockchains and the various consensus mechanisms that
are used to build trust in them. Also digital assets above and beyond
cryptocurrencies that use blockchain technology. ( <a
href="January25.pptx">Powerpoint</a> ) ( <a href="January25.pdf">PDF</a>
)</li>
<li>Weeks 3 and 4 (Brad) - The financial market context for
cryptocurrencies and blockchain equities, looking closely at risk-return
considerations and their potential role in a diversified portfolio ( <a
href="BradHornWeek3.pdf">Slides for Week 3</a> ) ( <a
href="Feb8Slides.pdf">Slides for Week 4</a> )</li>
<li>Week 5 - <a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/jeffrey-yost-phd">Jeffrey
Yost</a>, director of UMN’s <a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi">Charles
Babbage Institute</a> and author of the <a
href="https://blockchainandsociety.com/">Blockchain and Society
Blog</a>, will discuss societal implications of crypto and blockchain
technologies.</li>
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