Course 1
Der Sarntaler - eine digitale Währung für die Ferienakademie

 

Helmut Seidl, Technische Universität München

Dominique Schroeder, FA Universität Erlangen

Michael Petter, Technische Universität München

Course details

 

• The Course will take pace in Sarntal September 23th to October 05th 2018
• Course Language is German or English, by demand
  
• The deadline for applications is May
  

Short Description

In the progress of the course we will extend a basic open source blockchain-based coin system, labchain, by advanced features. This may or may not include, depending on participants preferences and skil level:

• A script language for labchain
  
• Proof-of-Stake consensus for labchain
• Redactable blockchain functionality for Labchain
• Certified coins functionality
• Sharding technique for scalability
• Mining pools (Pool Manager + distribute shares)
•  ...

We will work on this project in the form of a code camp, students programming together with advisors. The project is written in Python.

Prior to the course in Sarntal, we will probably give an introduction to python, with a few exercises for those of you, who do not yet program Python, while You will prepare a short topic in the vicinity of blockchain technology.