Blockchain for Business

Course Overview

Blockchain has the potential to change the world and few people realize all its far-reaching applications beyond Bitcoin. Its disruptive potential has been co

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Course overview

Course Overview

Blockchain has the potential to change the world and few people realize all its far-reaching applications beyond Bitcoin. Its disruptive potential has been compared to that of the Internet. That’s why people call it “the Internet of money” or “the Internet of value”. Now, compare this course to having a roadmap to the Internet in the early 1990s. A comprehensive guide that enables you to fully understand the new space and empowers you to make correct fully-informed decisions. You will be able to see new business opportunities before others do. You will be able to distinguish good ideas and projects from bad ones. You will learn how blockchain works and how it can be applied in various sectors. Moreover, you will get a new perspective on decentralized economic systems, which are expected to play a huge role in the future. This is the “sharing economy” 2.0 – powered by crypto-economics and blockchain.

 

Target Audience

  • Bankers and other financial professionals interested in cutting-edge financial innovation
  • Business executives and managers interested in the potential impact of blockchain on their industry
  • Entrepreneurs looking for more innovation within the blockchain space
  • Entrepreneurs looking to boost their existing business models and complement their ideas with the power of blockchain
  • Legal and accounting professionals interested in the new market opportunities blockchain, distributed ledger technology and crypto-assets are opening up
  • Government officials, regulators and other public sector professionals who want to understand thoroughly and keep up-to-date with the latest advancements in a technology with high potential impact on business, the economy and society as a whole
  • Legal professionals interested to participate in shaping the legal and regulatory framework around blockchain and crypto-assets
  • Tech enthusiasts interested in the latest developments in blockchain

 

Learning Objectives

Provide insights to the potential of blockchain innovation Excite an organization's employees and make them think about how blockchain could impact/improve the firm's business

 

 

What will i learn?

Requirements
Curriculum for this course
68 Lessons 8 hrs
Blockchain for Business
1 Lessons 08:00:00 Hours
  • Blockchain for Business
    Preview 08:00:00
Introduction
2 Lessons
  • How Blockchain will change the world in 8 pictures
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  • Blockchain for Business - Instructor Intro and Course Outline
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Module 2
2 Lessons
  • Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies - the fastest growing market we have seen
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  • Welcome to the world of Blockchain
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Module 3
3 Lessons
  • What is money: The three main characteristics of money
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  • A brief history of money - from gold to digital money
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  • Why cryptocurrencies are the next logical step in monetary evolution
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Module 4
5 Lessons
  • How Bitcoin was born
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  • Early scientific breakthroughs
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  • Major historic milestones preceding Bitcoin's creation
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  • Understanding the idea behind Bitcoin
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  • The advantages of a decentralized payment system
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Module 5
18 Lessons
  • Consensus mechanism - Game Theory
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  • Bitcoin - final remarks
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  • Alternative use cases of Bitcoin
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  • Software code base - the Script programming language
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  • Force #5 - Software code base
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  • Force #4 - P2P network
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  • Consensus mechanism - an important detail about consensus attacks
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  • Consensus mechanism - 51' attacks
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  • Consensus mechanism - What happens if miners misbehave
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  • Bitcoin's five forces
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  • Consensus mechanism - Mining and Proof-of-Work
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  • Consensus mechanism - Introduction to Proof-of-Work
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  • Consensus mechanism - Digital signatures
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  • Force #3 - Consensus
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  • Cryptography - the technique used to secure Bitcoin
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  • Force #2 - Cryptography
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  • A distributed ledger
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  • Force #1 - Blockchain
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Module 6
8 Lessons
  • Introduction to Ethereum
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  • How Vitalik Buterin created Ethereum
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  • How Ethereum took the idea of Blockchain to the next level
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  • The Ethereum Virtual Machine
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  • Ethereum - a global platform for decentralized applications
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  • Ethereum and Initial Coin Offerings
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  • Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - a look into the future
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  • Ethereum - key takeways
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Module 7
7 Lessons
  • Industry-specific blockchains
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  • Privacy on the Blockchain. Privacy coins (Monero, Zcash, Dash)
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  • The R3 Corda project
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  • The Hyperledger project
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  • Hyperledger frameworks
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  • The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
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  • The future of Blockchain Public and private blockchains
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Module 8
7 Lessons
  • Blockchain's disruptive potential
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  • Why banks shouldn't ignore blockchain
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  • Banking business lines that could be disrupted by blockchain
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  • Trade finance on the blockchain
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  • Blockchain and insurance
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  • Blockchain and investment banking
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  • Blockchain and financial regulators
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Module 9
3 Lessons
  • Blockchain and the retail industry
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  • Blockchain and Intellectual Property
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  • Blockchain and the food industry supply chain
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Module 10
4 Lessons
  • Blockchain and Google
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  • Blockchain and Facebook
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  • Blockchain and Amazon
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  • Blockchain and Apple
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Module 11
7 Lessons
  • Current issues and potential solutions to get blockchain to the next level
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  • Scalability solutions
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  • Scalability solutions: Proof-of-Stake
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  • Scalability solutions: Sharding
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  • Scalability solutions: Lightning networks, Plasma, Truebit
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  • Interoperability between blockchains
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  • Next generation blockchains - Tezos, Polkadot, Cosmos, Cardano, Zilliqa
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Conclusion
1 Lessons
  • Blockchain for Business - Final Remarks
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