Duration
14 hours (usually 2 days including breaks)
Requirements
- Should have basic knowledge of business operation, fiscal systems, currency encryption and data systems
- Must have basic understanding of software and systems
Overview
Target Audience
- Managers and Engineers whose company is venturing into finance/commerce space
- Business Analysts & Investors
Course Outline
Introduction To Blockchain
- Transactions storage on Blockchain
- Side chains
- History of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin mining
- Bitcoin general usage, trading and online exchange
Blockchain Usage
- Payment systems
- Cryptocurrencies (Bitcons Ledger)
- Royalty collection
Bitcoin Security
- Bitcoin pseudo-anonymity
- Security Measures
- Wallet Back Up and Restore
Mining and Transactions
- Digital Assets
- Distributed Ledgers
- Networks and Nodes
- Cryptography
- Proof and Distributed Consensus
- Pools and Scripting
Bitcoin Scalability and Limitations
- Transaction volumes and block sizes
- Mining pools and centralisation
Centralised vs. Decentralised Blockchains
- Centralised blockchain
- Decentralised blockchain
Use Cases and Opportunities for Financial Institutions
- Domestic payments and Micro-transactions
- Cross-border payments, clearing and settlement
- Coloured coins and digital asset ownership
- Time-stamped records
- Proof of ownership
- Trade of financial assets
- Capital markets
- Smart contracts and assets
- Digital identity
Conclusion
- Bitcoin for remittances in emerging economies
- Digital currencies and financial institutions