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Blockchain for Business 2019
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Bitcoin Blockchain and Cryptoassets
An introduction to blockchain
The rise of blockchain
Key features of blockchain
Ease of access
Blockchain – the internet of money
The hype of industrial companies around blockchain
Impacts of blockchain
Impacts in the financial sector
Impacts in our daily lives
The Chinese formula scandal
Blood diamonds
Impacts of blockchain on the internet
Summary
A Brief History of Money
An introduction to money
Money as a medium of exchange
Money as a unit of account
Money as a store of value
Money – an abstraction of value
The gold standard
An introduction to fiat currencies
What happens when fiat currency systems fail
How blockchain comes into the picture
The Birth of Bitcoin and the Advantages of a Decentralized Payment System
How Bitcoin came into existence
The beginning of the economic crisis
The birth of Bitcoin
Projects leading up to Bitcoin
An introduction to Bitcoin
Double-spending and how Bitcoin resolved it
How traditional payment systems work
Electronic transfers in banks
Credit and debit card transactions
Transactions in PayPal
Differences between centralized and decentralized payment systems
Five Forces of Bitcoin - #1 Blockchain
Introduction to Bitcoin's five forces
The first force – blockchain
Why blockchain is better
How blockchain works
Different types of blockchain
Public blockchains
Private blockchains
Value of blockchain
Areas where blockchain can be handy
Five Forces of Bitcoin - #2 Cryptography
Introduction to cryptography
Uses of cryptography in early times
Types of cryptography
Cryptographic techniques used in Bitcoin
Hash functions
Digital signatures
Five Forces of Bitcoin - #3 Consensus Algorithm
The Byzantine Generals' Problem
The Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm
Introduction to mining
The different aspects of a Bitcoin transaction
Nonce and difficulty
The computing power
Decentralized consensus and game theory
Examples of miner misbehavior
Example of double-spending
The architecture surrounding the Bitcoin network
Consensus attacks
Five Forces of Bitcoin - #4 P2P Network
Introduction to P2P networks
P2P model versus client-server model
Financial transactions
How Bitcoin differs
Nodes of the Bitcoin network
Types of nodes
Full nodes
SPV nodes
The Bitcoin P2P network
The mainnet
