CoinEd Intro to Cryptocurrencies & Blockchains

ABOUT

CoinEd, a leading education provider in the blockchain industry, will be hosting an introduction to cryptocurrencies & blockchain technology at Crawford College La Lucia, Durban. Upon the success of our initial pilot with the school, we now invite children as well as parents and interested persons to attend our second installment in the series.

This course will include theoretical concepts as well as interactive activities, and is suitable for both adults and children.

We will cover various aspects of cryptocurrencies, such as

• the history of money and why cryptocurrencies are a stepping stone to a fundamentally different financial system
• the various cryptocurrencies and how they differ from Bitcoin
• the process of mining
• building a mining rig (interactive activity)
• purchasing of, storing and spending of cryptocurrencies on Takealot (interactive activities)
• cryptocurrency adoption around the world
• using bitcoin when travelling abroad to withdraw local currency

We will also be covering blockchains by discussing

• industry use-cases
• through a paper exercise, depict the principal of a blockchain (interactive activity)
• the processing of transactions on a blockchain

There will be opportunities to discuss topics of your choice in addition to the above.

This is a one day course, with the option of attendance on Friday 7th December or Saturday 8th December 2018.

Presented by Kreaan Singh & Warren Gray, co-founders of CoinEd, and Grant Lewis, IT Integrator at Crawford College La Lucia.

For more information on CoinEd, visit www.CoinEd.co.za, or contact us on [email protected].

CoinEd reserves the right to cancel the event in the case of insufficient registrants.

No refunds are granted in the case of late or non attendance.

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