Blockchain Fundamentals

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Audience: Technical practitioners & technical leaders

Duration: 2 days

Format: Lectures (introductory) with optional labs

Overview

Blockchain has redefined how we think about distributed applications. This high-level course introduces Blockchain concepts, architecture, cryptocurrencies, mining, smart-contract use cases and includes optional hands-on labs.

Objective

Objective coming soon.

What You Will Learn

Blockchain ecosystem & architecture
Cryptocurrencies & wallets
Mining process & consensus models
Smart-contract use cases (finance, energy, contracts)
Hashing, public/private keys, Merkle trees
Public vs private networks, forks, double-spend prevention

Course Details

Audience: Technical practitioners & technical leaders

Duration: 2 days

Format: Lectures (introductory) with optional labs

Prerequisites:

Open to all (Java IDE needed for labs)

Setup: Optional local Java dev environment for labs

Detailed Outline

History, exploration

Economy, creation, trends

P2P, ledger, consensus, scale

Keys, hashing, encryption

Wallets, addresses, recording

Hashing, proof-of-work/stake

Blocks, schema, forks, double-spend

Nodes, SPV, transaction pools

Process, rewards, fees

Group discussion of use cases