Certificate of Completion for DFIN-511: Introduction to Digital Currencies MOOC offered by the University of Nicosia.

You can even cryptographically validate its authenticity in just 7 easy steps!

1. Download the pdf of my certificate of completion.
2. Run the file through a program which generates a SHA-256 hash. I used HashSlash for Windows, but you should find one you like or use your computer’s command line. The SHA-256 hash of my certificate should yield: 9810e6ff5d0dadf25d33e1150c9a45971d8826c2a27e517b4f822bb6289da8e9
3. Download the University of Nicosia’s index file for the Summer 2014 graduating class.
4. Verify that the hash of my certificate can be found in the index file. Mine is about 2/3 down the first page of hashes.
5. Now verify that the index document is authentic! After running it through your hash calculator, you should get: 71f8291827ae0806619cddbbd648d4b82ffb2115f5f0d0224e13ad3e7b06a32d
6. This hash was recorded into the Bitcoin blockchain on block 320803, transaction cb4f0cf471ac262096162484f51abcf1a0a6a2c9db21a4e2f5abbe41860d3ca0
7. If you examine the scripts and coinbase information for the selected transaction, you’ll note an OP_RETURN with the hash for our index document!