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Blockchain for Business: The New Industrial Revolution by Udemy
Blockchain Technology Will Transform How Businesses Operate. Do You Want to Be a Part of the Blockchain Journey?
Course Highlights
- Profound understanding of what blockchain and is its potential global impact
- Learn why blockchain is referred to as the “internet of money”
- Develop a solid fundamental understanding of the inner workings of blockchain with detailed explanations of “mining”, decentralized consensus, cryptography, smart contracts and many other important concepts
- Business applications of blockchain technology
- Recognize the opportunities in the blockchain business landscape
- Gain a broader perspective on innovation with the new paradigm and frameworks brought by blockchain including decentralized organizational structures, networks and applications
- Understand many popular and important blockchain projects and crypto-assets
- Project the potential impact of blockchain on many sectors like finance, consumer & retail, media, transportation & logistics, technology and the internet of things
- Learn how many large corporations are already implementing blockchain technology
- Identify potential new tech leaders and how blockchain can impact the current tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook
- Have a clear and realistic view on the current state of blockchain technology with its issues, limitations and potential solutions that can take it to the next level
- Keep up-to-date with the latest important projects shaping up the emerging third generation of blockchain technology
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
2 Topics
How Blockchain will change the world in 8 pictures
Blockchain for Business - instructor intro and course outline
2 Topics
Bitcoin Blockchain Cryptocurrencies - the fastest growing market we have seen?
Welcome to the world of Blockchain
3 Topics
What is money? The three main characteristics of money
A brief history of money - from gold to digital money
Why cryptocurrencies are the next logical step in monetary evolution?
5 Topics
How Bitcoin was born
Early scientific breakthroughs
Major historic milestones preceding Bitcoin's creation
Understanding the idea behind Bitcoin
The advantages of a decentralized payment system
19 Topics
Bitcoin's five forces
Force #1 - Blockchain
Blockchain - a distributed ledger
Force #2 - Cryptography
Cryptography - the technique used to secure Bitcoin
Force #3 - Consensus
Consensus mechanism - Digital signatures
Consensus mechanism - Introduction to Proof-of-Work
Consensus mechanism - Mining and Proof-of-Work
Consensus mechanism - Game Theory
Completed 33% of the course
Consensus mechanism - What happens if miners misbehave?
Consensus mechanism - 51% attacks
Consensus mechanism - an important detail about consensus attacks
Force #4 - P2P network
Force #5 - Software code base
Software code base - the Script programming language
Alternative use cases of Bitcoin
Bitcoin - final remarks
9 Topics
Introduction to Ethereum
How Vitalik Buterin created Ethereum
How Ethereum took the idea of Blockchain to the next level
Completed 50% of the course
The Ethereum Virtual Machine
Ethereum - a global platform for decentralized applications
Ethereum and Initial Coin Offerings
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - a look into the future
Ethereum - key take-aways
7 Topics
Industry-specific blockchains
Privacy on the Blockchain. Privacy coins (Monero Zcash Dash)
The R3 Corda project
The Hyperledger project
Hyperledger frameworks
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
The future of Blockchain: Public and private blockchains
7 Topics
Blockchain's disruptive potential
Why banks shouldn't ignore blockchain
Banking business lines that could be disrupted by blockchain
Trade finance on the blockchain
Blockchain and insurance
Blockchain and investment banking
Blockchain and financial regulators
3 Topics
Blockchain and the retail industry
Blockchain and Intellectual Property
Blockchain and the food industry supply chain
5 Topics
Blockchain and Google
Blockchain and Facebook
Blockchain and Amazon
Blockchain and Apple
Blockchain and AI
9 Topics
Current issues and potential solutions to take blockchain to the next level
Scalability solutions
Scalability solutions: Proof-of-Stake
Scalability solutions: Sharding
Scalability solutions: Lightning networks Plasma Truebit
Interoperability between blockchains
Next generation blockchains - Tezos Polkadot Cosmos Cardano Zilliqa
Blockchain for Business - conclusion
Completing 100% of the course
Blockchain for Business: The New Industrial Revolution
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