WANT TO LEARN ABOUT ICO?BLOCKCHAIN? TOKEN ECONOMY? BUILD MINER? We are starting the Blockchain school with Burst Community and you WILL GET SKILLS!!!! The Blockchain Fundamentals provided by Burst Community is a comprehensive survey of relevant topics incryptocurrency and the wider blockchain space. From a technological standpoint, we start with the basics ofcryptography and economics, establish a solid fundamental understanding of bitcoin vs burst Coin by building it from thebottom up, then explore the myriad of ideas and technologies relating to blockchain technology. We will explore thedifference Consensus protocols. We will provide insights to difference of open source blockchain community versusprivate coin offerings and what that entails. On the non-technical side, we start with the history of digital currency, thenlook at the laws, organizations, trends, and communities behind it to build a complete picture of the ecosystemsurroundinag blockchain technology. Goal of Program: Many people find it difficult to understand cryptocurrencies and blockchain, the product of coordination between manycomplex components; and it’s hard to see the full picture until all the individual components are fully understood.Furthermore, since the field is technical and relatively new, cryptocurrency-related discussion by nature is full of jargon.Therefore, it is easy to get lost trying to follow nearly any conversation on crypto/blockchain if you have not built up theright background. The goal of this course is to surmount the steep learning curve of cryptocurrency. By the end of this course you will understand how cryptocurrencies work and the ideas, technologies, and organizations sprouting from it. Cryptocurrency and the wider blockchain space. From a technological standpoint, we start with the basics of cryptography and economics, establish a solid fundamental understanding of bitcoin vs burst Coin by building it from the bottom up, then explore the myriad of ideas and technologies relating to blockchain technology. We will explore the difference Consensus protocols. We will provide insights to difference of open source blockchain community versus private coin offerings and what that entails. On the non-technical side, we start with the history of digital currency, then look at the laws, organizations, trends, and communities behind it to build a complete picture of the ecosystem surroundinag blockchain technology. FULL DESCRIPTION: BLOCKCHAIN AND BURST COIN Burst & ActionSpot Blockchain School ABOUT The Blockchain Fundamentals provided by Burst Community is a comprehensive survey of relevant topics in cryptocurrency and the wider blockchain space. From a technological standpoint, we start with the basics of cryptography and economics, establish a solid fundamental understanding of bitcoin vs burst Coin by building it from the bottom up, then explore the myriad of ideas and technologies relating to blockchain technology. We will explore the difference Consensus protocols. We will provide insights to difference of open source blockchain community versus private coin offerings and what that entails. On the non-technical side, we start with the history of digital currency, then look at the laws, organizations, trends, and communities behind it to build a complete picture of the ecosystem surrounding blockchain technology. GOAL Many people find it difficult to understand cryptocurrencies and blockchain, the product of coordination between many complex components; and it’s hard to see the full picture until all the individual components are fully understood. Furthermore, since the field is technical and relatively new, cryptocurrency-related discussion by nature is full of jargon. Therefore, it is easy to get lost trying to follow nearly any conversation on crypto/blockchain if you have not built up the right background. The goal of this course is to surmount the steep learning curve of cryptocurrency. By the end of this course you will understand how cryptocurrencies work and the ideas, technologies, and organizations sprouting from it. LOGISTICS Units: 10Day and Times: Tuesday , 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Location: ActionSpot , 453 W San Carlos St, San Jose, CA 95110Course Staff: Discussion Leaders: PRICE FOR SESSION/ENTIRE SERIES: $49.99/session, $450.00/series Class Format: 1.5 hours of lecture per week, 1 hour of discussion per week Communication: All of the necessary communication for this course will be done through Telegram group built for class and announced. Weekly homework assignments will be distributed after class, along with the lecture slides.Prerequisites: This course have no formal prerequisites. However, blockchain is very technical in nature, so coming into this course with knowledge of computer science or cryptography will be extremely helpful, although not required. If you have any concerns about the nature of this course, do not hesitate to reach out to the facilitators.Class Entry Policy: By permission code. Students are required to (1) attend the first lecture and (2) fill out the discussion preference form to receive a discussion assignment. Students who attend their assigned discussion section in the first week of school are given a permission code and course number to enroll with. GRADING Grading: P/NP. The class is based on Pass/Not Pass to keep everything on track Homework and Quizzes (30%): There will be homeworks and quizzes dispersed throughout the course and will be weighted equally. Quizzes will be given during the first 5 minutes of class. Homework will be released after Saturday evening after lecture and will be due the following Saturday at 11:59 pm.Homework: Homeworks are intended to be interesting prompts. For example, in addition to the occasional write-up, we may have you write your name on the blockchain, or dig up a transaction originating from Silk Road, or comment on Telegram channel with a paragraph arguing for or against the scalability debate.Quizzes: Quizzes are intended to be a quick, easy screen designed for you to demonstrate that you completed your readings for the current week’s topic. We will administer quizzes on random weeks. They will be in the form of 6 multiple choice questions and administered in the first 5 minutes of class. You only have to get 4 of the 6 questions right to get a full score. Attendance: We will take attendance at the beginning of every class. Please go to only your ASSIGNED discussion section. No, you may not switch discussion sections, as we decide sections based on your availability in the beginning of the semester and have limited class sizes. Even though this is a paid session, we expect excused absences to be rare; You may find full details in our syllabus here.Textbooks: You are free to read from these books, which are both freely distributed and available online. Please do NOT go out and buy them. Some readings may be pulled from these books during the course.bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (Princeton textbook) by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, and Steven Goldfeder:https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf(Optional/Additional) Mastering bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos:PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8lgcDXI8hEfbXFYcTh6aXNqRkk/view?usp=sharingSource: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook
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