Accelerated One Week Blockchain Tech Course

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Blockchain University provides courses & idea incubation on blockchain technologies. Sessions are taught by seasoned instructors & founders of SV funded startups. Find out more about Blockchain University at: blockchainu.co


By popular demand, join us for this one week immersive course on blockchain technology, designed specifically for developers, product managers, project managers, entrepreneurs & intrepreners from across industries. Registration includes enrollment for the one week course, plus (optional) hands-on project at our following hackathon (Saturday, Oct. 31st, ticket included).

  • 5-Day Daily course instruction: Oct. 26th through Oct. 30th, 10am - 5pm
  • 2-Day Collaborative project lab @ BCU Hackathon (optional): October 30th - Nov. 1st
    Finalists from the Hackathon will be given the opportunity to present at the November Blockchain Demo Summit!
  • **Registrants will receive a special discounted fare for entry into our Blockchain Demo Summit November 2nd in San Francisco, CA**
 
Our rich alumni network is comprised of entrepreneurs hailing from 500 Startups and Y Combinator, and profesionals and enthusiasts from Google, Visa, AT&T, Infosys, PriceWaterhouseCooper, JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, Intuit and many others!
 
Course Agenda (subject to change):
 
  • Virtual currencies
  • Bitcoin & its blockchain
  • Introduction to Bitcoin Cryptography:  hashes, public/private keys, ECDSA
  • Introduction to Bitcoin Security
  • The Bitcoin network
  • Bitcoin mining & consensus
  • Structure of a full node bitcoin client
  • Bitcoin transactions
  • Bitcoin protocols
  • Bitcoin Script language
  • Sidechains
  • Smart contracts
  • Scalability issues
  • Sidechains
  • Forking the Bitcoin Blockchain
  • Modifications to consensus, block height, transactions
  • Overview of other blockchain & distributed ledger technologies:
    • Ethereum
    • Eris
  • Overview of other consensus algorithms: 
    • Tendermint
  • Overview of other related technologies: 
    • DNSChain
    • IPFS
  • Examples of blockchain applications
  • Third party blockchain APIs
  • Considerations when building blockchain applications

BSE-hackathon
 
Email info@blockchainU.co for details on scholarship and discounted course options.

Location

MSFTReactor
San Francisco, United States

Dates

From 26th October 2015 - 10:00 AM
to 1st November 2015 - 05:00 PM