Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Technology Foundation Course

Bright Solutions Global PLC

Short course

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    7h

  • Duration

    1 Day

For those who have heard about Bitcoin and Blockchain, and need to understand …

… where blockchain could or will have a major strategic impact on their business, as a threat or as an opportunity.
… where blockchain offers a tactical opportunity to improve, diversify or optimise current business activities.
… where data and transaction immutability is key.
… the disruptive opportunities blockchain ( shared ledger ) technology will offer.

This course provides a concise introduction with hands on exercise to provide a solid introduction. The day focuses on terminology and basic concepts of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, build a simple blockchain and appreciate its possible use cases, associated issues, opportunities and possibilities.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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78 Cannon Street, EC4N 6AG

Start date

On request

About this course

This course is suitable for a wide range of people – from business managers to general IT workers, who need both an overview of blockchain capabilities and a technical view inside blockchain processing.

No prior knowledge required.

This course provides much more content than most courses that are currently available. We have worked hard to develop a series of hands on exercises that are user friendly and highly interactive.

We also provide a concise post course study pack with numerous information and data to provide post code study.

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2018

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Subjects

  • Private
  • Public
  • Technology
  • Architecture
  • Foundation
  • Bitcoin
  • Blockchain
  • Mining
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Hashing
  • The Blockchain Process
  • BAAS

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Bright Solutions

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Course programme

Session 1 – Blockchain

● Blockchain – the history
● Purpose – why is it, what is it? ( + examples )
● Blockchain – advantages and disadvantages
● Hashing – tamper proof transaction histories and SHA-256
● Digital Signatures: Public Keys – Private Keys
● Architecture – Centralised vs. Decentralised, Public vs. Private, Permissioned vs. Permissionless
● The Chain – Blocks and Records and Querying
● Consensus and immutability (Mining) – Proof of work (Stake), The 51% attack
● Double Spend issues
● The Blockchain Process
● Summary

Session 2 – Cryptocurrency

● Bitcoin – value, trust. A digital asset (2009)
● Buying and Selling – wallets, exchanges and price movements
● Bitcoin Transactions
● Bitcoin Storage options – wallets
● Bitcoin Payment – options and services
● Bitcoin Mining and Transaction fees
● Anonymity
● Altcoins – create your own
● Etherium and Smart Contracts – DAO, DAC
● Summary

Session 3 – Blockchain Workshop

● Ledgers – Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) : public and private
● The commercial players and BAAS ( Blockchain As A Service )
● Practical – Blockchain simple application: definition, creation and use ( And API’s )
● Summary

Session 4 – Extras and Summary

● Blockchain Use Cases
● ICO’s ( Initial Coin Offerings )
● Soft Forks and Hard Forks, SegWit
● Compliance, Security and Risks – Government, FCA, SEC, Tax, AML, KYC, BitLicense ● Next Steps and the future – barriers and opportunities – when to use, when to not.
● Summary

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