Lecture 8 — Alternative Mining Puzzles
Channel: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course
Date: 2015-04-06

Eighth 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:
* Essential Puzzle Requirements
* ASIC Resistant Puzzles
* Proof-of-useful-work
* Nonoutsourceable Puzzles
* Proof-of-Stake