Introduction to Blockchain: concept and technologies
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Course Overview
Who should attend?
The seminar is build for technically oriented participants, Engineers, architects, IT professionals, IT leaders & Managers, R&D managers, CIOs who are interested in a functional/technical snapshot into the Blockchain and cryptographic currency world.Course Outline:
Part 1 – The history of Bitcoin
• The Cypherpunks movement
• Satoshi Nakamoto, The white paper, Bitcoin v0.1 release
• The double-spend problem
• Centralization vs Decentralization
• Blockchain vs Bitcoin
• Applications of Blockchain Technology
Part 2 – Bitcoin building blocks
• Cryptographic hash functions
• Digital Signatures (public-key cryptography)
• Transactions, The Script Language
• Merkle-trees
• Coinbase transaction (block reward)
• The chain of blocks (aka blockchain)
• The P2P protocol
Part 3 – Distributed Consensus
• Incentives and Proof-of-Work
• Mining
• Block time / Difficulty level
• Soft forks, Hard forks
• Immutability, number of confirmations
Part 4 – Power Struggles
• 51% attack
• Who controls Bitcoin
• What sets the price of bitcoin
• Geopolitics and state-sponsored attacks
• Government intervention, Regulation
• The block size debate
• The War Against ASICs
• Permissioned vs Permissionless Blockchain
• Wallet technology overview
• Hot vs Cold storage
• Transaction Fees
• Online Wallets and Exchanges
• Centralized vs Decentralized ExchangesPart 6 – Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystems
• Side Chains
• 2nd-Layer Solutions
• Intrinsic vs Extrinsic assets
• Litecoin
• Ethereum
• ERC20 Tokens
• Ethereum Classic
• Monero
• Ripple
• Stable coins
• DAG coins
