Description

Prerequisites

Target Audience

This One-Day (8 Hours) workshop offers the following:

What is Blockchain?

1. Significance
2. Disruption
   1. Distinction between Blockchain vs Cryptocurrency
3. Definition – diagram
   1. Pillars of Blockchain
   2. Industry Applications of Blockchain
4. History of Centralized Services, trusted third party
   1. Shift from gold standard to flat currency like Bitcoin
   2. Trustless system
5. Immutability, Security, Privacy, Anti-fragility, etc.
6. Why Blockchain?

Cryptocurrency and Markets

1. Cryptocurrencies
2. Where is the value – what are people investing in?
3. How to Set up a Wallet
4. Security
5. Tokens and ICO

How Blockchain Work

1. Peer to Peer network, what is a block?
2. What was the “revolutionary” technology that actually drove towards the blockchain
3. Distributed consensus
4. Cryptography – mention what proof of work is.
   1. Hashing
   2. Data Integrity, Merkle Trees
   3. Public vs Private Key Cryptography
   4. Bitcoin and block sizes

Mining and Cryptocurrencies

1. Mining
   1. Proof of Work vs Stake
   2. What this does, how miners make money
   3. What this meant as an impact to the world
   4. Motivations, incentives, strategy
2. Pools
3. CPUS and GPUs, and what the impact is
4. What miners do – business model, overview, the purpose e. Revenue at a Protocol Level – Block Rewards/Fees/ETC

Types of Blockchain and Enterprise

1. Public and Private Blockchains
2. Use Cases:
   1. Digital Rights – ownership and accessibility, education
   2. Industry – healthcare, identity, finance
   3. Elections and Voting: Auto execution of contracts, escrow, etc.

Consensus Building

1. Proof of Work
   1. What is it
   2. Security Implications
   3. 1 PC 1 vote
   4. Environmental

1. Proof of Stake

Regulation and Anonymity

1. ICO and SEC ruling
2. Why people use blockchain and bitcoin in the first place – its anonymity
3. Governments (not just US) regulating bitcoin, ETFs
4. Anti-Money Laundering
5. Political Implications on blockchain
   1. Government’s current position and how this affects blockchain.

Problems with Blockchain

1. Security and Safeguards
2. Protection from attackers
3. Hacks on exchanges
4. What is stopping adoption?
5. Scalability problems
6. Network attacks to destroy bitcoin
7. Case Study on Blockchain failures

Introduction to Hyperledger

Important Note:

The Date is tentative. We’ll confirm the date once we reach a minimum threshold number of participants. The venue will also be communicated later.

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