201Course · Practitioner
History of Bitcoin
From the whitepaper to the present.
One protocol, read as institutional history. The whitepaper, Silk Road, Mt. Gox, the block-size war, SegWit, Taproot — each event is a chapter in a governance experiment that has now run longer than most sovereign currencies.
- 01
Trace the major forks and their reasons.
- 02
Name the actors who shaped the protocol.
- 03
Read the block chain as a historical document.
Prerequisites
- — Program I.
Pacing
~4 hours.
- IModule
The early years
Genesis to the first exchanges.
- IIModule
The block-size war
The fight that defined the culture.
A Note from the Faculty
You cannot understand Bitcoin's technical decisions without its politics.