Bitcoin Advanced Course - Cape Town
Tue Jul 12, 09:00 - Tue Jul 12, 14:30
Bandwith Barn
ABOUT
Do you know the basics of Bitcoin & the Blockchain and want to learn more about this fascinating technology and the opportunities it offers?Bitcoin & blockchain technology has received a lot of attention recently as the technology provides many opportunities and solutions for both financial and non-financial institutions, startups, individuals and governments. The world's largest organisations such as IBM, Deloitte, Microsoft, Santander Bank and Nasdaq, are looking at the blockchain technology as a means to improve their existing services, systems and products. This course helps de-mystify what blockchain is and how organisations can leverage its key features: security, transparency, full life-cycle transaction history, real-time, immutability and cost-efficiency.
This course is for individuals who understand the basics of digital currencies such as bitcoin and the blockchain technology. The course delves deeper into the concepts covered in the Bitcoin Beginner course, such as bitcoin mining, transactions on the blockchain, wallets, payment gateways, software clients, API's, libraries, Bitcoin 2.0 and smart contracts.
Module 1 - Introduction
- Byzantine Generals’ Problem
- Distributed Ledgers
- Digital Assets
- Scripting
- Pools
- Proof and Distributed Consensus
- Cryptography
- Nodes
- Networks
- Web services / APIs
- Software
- Frontends
- Clients
- Blockchain as a Service
- Payment Gateways and Providers
- APIs
- Wallets
- Explorers
- Decentralised Autonomous Organisations
- Decentralised Services
- Open Asset Protocol
- World Computers
- Smart Property
- Smart Contracts
- Side Chains
Please note: The course content is subject to change slightly.