Web3

Can we really own our assets?

We will explore the basic concepts of Web3: blockchains, wallets, tokens, smart contracts, and decentralized organizations. We will also dig deeper into more advanced topics, like quadratic voting, zero-knowledge proofs, rollups, and more.

Dig deeper

The following are good sources where to learn more:

• Bitcoin.org

• Ethereum.org

• Investopedia

• Finematics

• Simply Explained

• Cripto (in Italian)

• The Crypto Gateway (in Italian)

• Binance Academy

• Crypto.com University

• Metamask Learn

• The rise and rise of Bitcoin

(Non essential) bibliography

• Saifedean Ammous. The Bitcoin Standard: the decentralized alternative to central banking. John Wiley & Sons Inc (2018)

• Gian Luca Comandini. L’uomo più ricco del mondo. Rizzoli (2022, in Italian)

Code

You will find some lines of code as well, implementing a rudimentary blockchain. Code chunks are written in R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. You can use R directly from the shell or with RStudio, an integrated development environment (IDE) for R (and Python).