I thought I would share the course outline and initial readings for anyone interested in this subject. I'm wondering how and if this might turn into a course, but I haven't gotten that far yet - so ignore the non-teacher-y parts of these data dumps.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Technical Governance v. Meta Governance
- Blockchain Basics
- What is Consensus?
- Proof of Work
- Proof of Stake
- Hashgraph
- What is a Fork and why do they happen?
- Ethereum Forks
- Kogut Article - What can Open Source Development teach us about decentralized governance?
- What is the Role of Government
- Anarchy: State-to-State Negotiation and Accountability
- International Organizations
- Decentralized/Network Governance
- Technological Issues
- Interoperability
- Scalability
- Decentralization
- Institutional Legitimacy
- Security
- Blockchain Security Issues(Upper Tier Attacks)
- Lack of Governance: Who determines what happens with the chain when something goes wrong and what are their motivations? Transparent democracy or closed dictatorship?
- Bad Contract Code (Middle Tier Attacks)
- Replay (51%) Attack: duplicate transaction on each node in chain
- DDoS Attacks: Forks 2 and 3
- Lack of Quality Control and Certification (The DAO Attack)
- Wallet Security Issues (User Attacks)
- Phishing, Spoofing (wallet, address), etc.
- Case Studies
- Case Studies: Decred and Hashgraph (Governance)
- Case Studies: Z-Cash (Privacy)
- Case Studies: Ripple (Blockchain in Banking)
- Case Studies: Cicero/Accord (Blockchain in Law)
- Case Studies: Estonia (Blockchain in Government)
Reading List (so far, this is very incomplete - the outline is pretty set, particularly the first half of it, but I'm still working on the reading list; if you (is there a you out there??) have any thoughts, let me know.
- Hashgraph White Paper (see Readings)
- https://qz.com/730004/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ethereum-hard-fork/
- SEC DAO Report (see Readings)
- https://www.etherchain.org/hardForks
- Kogut & Metiu - Open-Source Software Development and Distributed Innovation (see Readings)
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