Lecture 10 — Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
Channel: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course
Date: 2015-04-20

Tenth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course. 

For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/

In this lecture:
* Short History of Altcoins
* Interaction between Bitcoin and Altcoins
* Lifecycle of an Altcoin
* Bitcoin-Backed Altcoins, “Side Chains”