Bitcoin Beginner Course - Johannesburg
Tue Jul 5, 09:00 - Tue Jul 5, 14:30
Bandwidth Barn
ABOUT
There is a lot of excitement lately on the opportunities that bitcoin as a digital currency and its underlying technology, the blockchain offers. From trading, mining or using the technology to streamline existing systems and processes, the opportunities most defnitely exist.The Bitcoin Beginner course is for individuals who are new to digital currencies and blockchain technology. The course covers the basics of money, bitcoin and the blockchain, how to use bitcoin: buy and sell bitcoin; send and receive bitcoin; and how to store bitcoin in a wallet, bitcoin and wallet security, compliance and regulation and highlights the future of this space as well as the companies and institutions globally and locally that are currently using this technology.
Modules that will be covered are:
Module 1 - Introduction
- History of Bitcoin
- Digital currencies explained
- Money and currency
- Side chains
- Permissioned and Permissionless Blockchains
- What is Bitcoin mining
- How are transactions stored on the Blockchain
- 101 of the Blockchain
- Bitcoin pricing and volatility
- How to trade bitcoins on on-line exchanges
- How to send and receive bitcoins
- How to store bitcoins in a wallet
- Where and how to get bitcoins
- Backing up and restoring wallets
- Security measures such as multi-signature transactions
- Security issues and the pseudo-anonymity of Bitcoin
- Money laundering and fraud
- Bitcoin compliance
- Regulation globally and in South Africa
- Alternatives to Bitcoin and the Blockchain
- The value of Bitcoin and the Blockchain as a technology
- Digital currencies and innovation
- Digital currencies and financial institutions
- Bitcoin for remittances in emerging economies