Blockchain for Business - An introduction
  • How Blockchain will change the world in 8 pictures
  • Blockchain for Business - instructor intro and course outline
The rise of a new industry
  • Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies - the fastest growing market we have seen?
  • Welcome to the world of Blockchain
The rationale behind cryptocurrencies
  • 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?
Bitcoin: Where it all started
  • 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
Bitcoin's five forces
  • 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
Blockchain 2.0 - Ethereum
  • 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
Industrial applications of Blockchain
  • 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
Blockchain and the Financial sector
  • 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
Blockchain and the Consumer goods sector
  • Blockchain and the retail industry
  • Blockchain and Intellectual Property
  • Blockchain and the food industry supply chain
Blockchain and the global tech giants
  • Blockchain and Google
  • Blockchain and Facebook
  • Blockchain and Amazon
  • Blockchain and Apple
  • Blockchain and AI
A look into the future of Blockchain technology
  • 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