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
Email [email protected] for details on scholarship and discounted course options.
Oct. 26, 2015 - Nov. 1, 2015
MSFTReactor, San Francisco