CS 4790
Cryptocurrency
Daily Announcements, Spring 2026
Blockchain
![]( "Blockchains are like grappling hooks, in that it's extremely cool when you encounter a problem for which they're the right solution, but it happens way too rarely in real life.")
Lecture 2: Thursday, January 15th
- BTC:
$94,583; ETH: $3,280; ETH gas: 0.09 gwei => $0.01 @ 2026-01-14 21:25:46
- Homeworks
- HW S1: course introduction survey is due next Thursday (Jan 22nd) by midnight
- HW P1: Cryptocurrency Introductory is due the following Tuesday (Jan 29th) by midnight
- It’s all ready to go, but you should wait until we finish the overview slide set
- Gradescope submission opens up 3 days before it is due
- HW S2 will be a reading (the Bitcoin whitepaper), due no earlier than Tue, Jan 27th
- Upcoming HWs (not yet ready!)
- HW P2 (due Tue, Feb 5th) will be on ECDSA
- HW P3 (due Tue, Feb 12th) will be on Bitcoin’s blockchain
- HW P4 (due Tue, Feb 19th) will be on Bitcoin scripting
- Office hours start next week
- All are currently TBA, and will be in Rice 442; the times will be posted this weekend
- This all will be on the Canvas landing page
- Today we will continue with the cryptocurrency overview slide set, and then start encryption
