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MIT Blockchain and Money - Prof. Gary Gensler 

ln this lecture, Prof. Gary Gensler provides an introduction to the course and to blockchain technology.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler 

In this lecture, Prof. Gensler discusses the history of money, ledgers, fiat currency, central banking, early digital money, and mobile payments.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler 

In this lecture, Prof. Gensler, explains the basics of blockchain and covers  Bitcoin design features, hash functions, blocker headers, Merkle trees, among other related topics.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

This lecture covers blockchain consensus protocols. Because of the decentralized nature of blockchain technology, it is crucial that consensus protocols are used to require that the nodes on the network agree on the same state of a blockchain.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

This session covers design featues of blockchain, like hash functions, append-only timestamped logs, and proof-of-work.  The professor also covers unspent transcation output (UTXO).

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

This session covers smart contracts, blockchain design, DApps, and tokens. Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig explains the legal issues of smart contracts.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

This lecture covers technical challenges to blockchain technology, such as scalability, privacy, security, and interoperability.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

In this session, Prof. Gensler discusses how public policy relates to blockchain technology and crypto finance. The public policy framework guards against illicit activity, provides financial stability, and protects the investing public.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

In this lecture, Prof. Gensler discusses permissioned or private distributed ledger technology.  

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

This lecture describes three aspects of finance: financial institutions, regulation, and technology. Also covered is risk management and opportunities in the blockchain field.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

In this video, Prof. Gary Gensler discusses the economics of blockchain, blockchain vs. the Internet, blockchain minimalists, and costs and trade-offs.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

In this lecture, Prof. Gensler talks about how to assess the costs and benefits of any potential use cases.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

In this video, Prof. Gensler discusses the lessons that can be drawn from the challenges of blockchain-related payment applications.  Other topics include cross-border payments, and permissioned vs. permissionless applications.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

In this video, Prof. Gensler discusses the lessons that can be drawn from the challenges of blockchain-related payment applications.  Other topics include cross-border payments, and permissioned vs. permissionless applications.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

Prof. Gary Gensler continues the discussion about central banks and commercial banking by talking about private banknotes and stable value tokens, and central bank digital currency.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

Prof. Gary Gensler continues the discussion about central banks and commercial banking by talking about private banknotes and stable value tokens, and central bank digital currency.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

Prof. Gensler talks about crypto-exchange, while not directly an application of blockchain technology, is a major part of the crypto-finance ecosystem.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

Prof. Gensler talks about crowdfunding with Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) as well as the characterstics and evaluation of ICOs.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

Prof. Gensler gives a second talk about Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), focusing on the markets and regulations for ICOs.

MIT Blockchain and Money - Gary Gensler

Prof. Gensler gives an overview of the class, touching on money and ledgers, the economics of blockchain technology, financial sector opportunities, crypto finance, and public policy.