The course is primarily about the cyber security and covers security, privacy related techniques implemented in any blockchain. Learners will be introduced to, among other topics, main principles of hashing algorithms, digital signatures, mining, onion routing and Chaum's Blinding protocol.

For blockchain professionals the course is a great opportunity to learn security related aspects that are relevant for every organization running IT systems. This knowledge may become very valuable once public and business organizations will start massively embracing and managing blockchain based IT solutions.

The learning material is primarily presented as video lessons containing built-in short quizzes testing the newly introduced main concepts. In addition, the learners have a possibility to connect and discuss new concepts, ideas in the online discussion forums. All the lessons have external references (even though some Internet links are outdated) that are briefly reviewed by the instructor at the beginning of each week. Each learning chapters contain short interviews with the leading company representatives or experts in the field.