15.S12
Special Seminar in Management
Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum.
Fall 2018 · Blockchain and Money
Topics
- Introduction
- Money, Ledgers, and Bitcoin
- Blockchain Basics and Cryptography
- Blockchain Basics and Consensus
- Blockchain Basics and Transactions, UTXO, and Script Code
- Technical Challenges
- Public Policy
- Permissioned Systems
- Financial System Challenges and Opportunities
- Assessing Use Cases
- Payments, Part 2
- Central Banks and Commercial Banking, Part 2
- Secondary Markets and Crypto-Exchanges
- A New Approach to Crypto-Exchanges and Payments
- Primary Markets, ICOs, and Venture Capital, Part 1
- Primary Markets, ICOs, and Venture Capital, Part 2
- Post Trade Clearing, Settlement, and Processing
- Trade Finance and Supply Chain
- Digital ID
- Conclusion
Readings
- ‘IMF World Bank Comment’ Gensler, The Banker (September 2018).
- ‘Smart Contracts: 12 Use Cases for Business & Beyond’ Chamber of Digital Commerce’ (December 2016)
- ‘J. R. Willett: How I Invented the First ICO’ RadarZero (March 20, 2018)
- ‘A Letter to Jamie Dimon’ (PDF - 1.1MB) Chain (October 16, 2017)
- ‘The Payment Industry is About to Be Struck by Lightning: Expert Take’ Coin Telegraph (March 21, 2018)
- ‘Stable Coins Analysis: Is There A Viable Solution for The Future?’ Coin Telegraph (May 14, 2018)
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Spring) Units arranged Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2018
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.