Public syllabus

Curriculum

This page answers what Blockchain Mastery contains. BCM follows its own pedagogical order: each chapter exists to remove one specific misunderstanding, in the order an engineer actually needs it. Learning itself is entered through My BCM → Course → Chapter.

BCM-M · BCM Mentee

Learner can explain foundational Blockchain mechanisms and use basic Blockchain tools safely.

3DCmandatory

3 Day Challenge

Mentee on-ramp: what BCM is, how the Track works, MIRACLE progression, the DEVISE learning flow, assessments, evidence and support. Content is in preparation.

Identity and learning access are owned by One Great Mentor.

CRYbonus

Cryptography

Generic cryptography foundations, deliberately independent of any single chain. Structural placeholders only — content is authored separately.

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C01coming soon

Cryptography-I

Generic cryptography foundations — content in preparation

Cryptography is usually learned as chain-specific trivia instead of as reusable foundations.

C02coming soon

Cryptography-II

Generic cryptography foundations, part two — content in preparation

Chain-agnostic cryptographic reasoning has to exist before chain-specific application makes sense.

BCM-I · BCM Implementer

Learner can implement, test, deploy and explain practical Blockchain applications and diagnose common failures.

BCFmandatory

Blockchain Fundamentals

The Implementer-level foundation course: why Blockchain exists, real public transactions, the engineering problems Bitcoin had to solve, and applied cryptography.

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C01live

Why Blockchain Exists

The double-spend and shared-truth problem

A group of strangers who do not trust each other, and have no shared clock and no referee, must agree on one history of who paid whom — permanently.

Explain why a digital coin cannot simply be a file
State the double-spend problem precisely, in terms of conflicting spends of the same resource
Explain why ordering — not cryptography — is the core difficulty

Chapters in preparation

Declared in the BCM sequence and not yet placed into a published Course.

BCM-C06

planned

Agreement Among Untrusted Nodes

Byzantine agreement, proof-of-work and chain selection

BCM-C07

planned

Merkle Trees and Efficient Verification

From leaves to root, and Merkle proofs to SPV

BCM-C08

planned

Bitcoin Mechanics

UTXO, script, fees, subsidy and confirmations

BCM-C09

planned

Ethereum Architecture

Accounts, state, gas, EVM, proof-of-stake

BCM-C10

planned

Solidity and the EVM

Write, compile, reason about state

BCM-C11

planned

Test, Deploy, Verify

Local VM → tests → Sepolia → verification

BCM-C12

planned

dApp Interaction

Web3 libraries, RPC, transfers and contract calls

BCM-C13

planned

Permissioned Blockchain

Hyperledger Fabric: peers, orderers, channels, chaincode, MSP

BCM-C14

planned

Attack Labs

Reentrancy, access control, randomness, oracles, key compromise

BCM-C15

planned

Implementer Capstone

End-to-end: problem → design → contract → tests → Sepolia → evidence

The Satoshi Problem units

Bitcoin taught as a sequence of engineering problems and the answers the design chose.

Digital cash copies perfectly

Spend outputs, not files

live

Participants cannot be trusted

Independent rule verification by every node

live

Identities are cheap to fake

Weight influence by costly work, not by names

live

No shared clock for ordering

Order by chained, work-backed blocks

coming soon

Competing histories appear

Follow the chain with most cumulative work

coming soon

Why would anyone produce blocks?

Block subsidy plus transaction fees

coming soon

How is supply issued without a central bank?

Scheduled subsidy, halving over time

coming soon

Where do unconfirmed transactions live?

Per-node pending transaction pool

coming soon

How much confidence does inclusion give?

Confirmation depth as probability, not proof

coming soon

Must every user store everything?

Merkle proofs and SPV, with stated trade-offs

coming soon

Hardware speed keeps rising

Difficulty retarget every 2016 blocks

coming soon

Participants join and leave freely

No permanent membership; work is the entry ticket

coming soon