The Bitcoin Basics

The Bitcoin Basics, available at Free, has an average rating of 4, with 53 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 1202 reviews, and has 36441 subscribers.

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Summary

Title: The Bitcoin Basics

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4

Number of Lectures: 53

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 53

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 56

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 56

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Understand Bitcoin as both a technology and a currency at a high level
Get started with a Bitcoin wallet and make your first purchase
Understand Bitcoin in relation to other forms of money and legacy payment networks
Create a Bitcoin node

Who Should Attend

This course is for anyone interested in learning the basics of Bitcoin as both a technology and a currency. No prior knowledge about Bitcoin is necessary. This course is probably not for you if you're looking for a deep technical dive into Bitcoin, blockchain technology and/or cryptography.

Target Audiences

This course is for anyone interested in learning the basics of Bitcoin as both a technology and a currency. No prior knowledge about Bitcoin is necessary. This course is probably not for you if you're looking for a deep technical dive into Bitcoin, blockchain technology and/or cryptography.

Over the past couple years there has been an explosion of growth and innovation in the bitcoin space, but many people still don’t really understand what bitcoin is, or why it’s exciting to so many entrepreneurs and investors.

Draper University and Zapchain have come together with the goal of making the most comprehensive bitcoin course. By making bitcoin more approachable, we hope to inspire people to innovate with Bitcoin, because we believe that bitcoin has transformative potential.

In this course we’ll teach you the fundamentals of bitcoin and introduce you to entrepreneurs who have been funded by tens of millions of dollars, the venture capitalists behind them, and some of the brightest engineers in Silicon Valley, all of whom will give us their unique insights into how bitcoin can change the world.

If you’ve heard of bitcoin but still don’t quite understand what it is, or are interested in how new technology has the power to transform the financial industry today, then this course is definitely for you!

Come join us at The Bitcoin Course.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: What is Bitcoin?

Lecture 1: What is Bitcoin?

Lecture 2: What is a distributed ledger?

Lecture 3: How do transactions work on the distributed ledger?

Lecture 4: Bitcoin as a protocol and bitcoin as a currency

Lecture 5: Why is trust so important to financial transactions?

Lecture 6: How does Bitcoin solve this issue of trust?

Lecture 7: Interview: How Bitcoin allows trustless transactions [Matthew Martin]

Chapter 2: An Evolution of Payment Systems

Lecture 1: Introduction to payments

Lecture 2: What is Money?

Lecture 3: How does Bitcoin compare to other forms of money?

Lecture 4: What are the limitations of legacy payment platforms?

Lecture 5: What are the advantages of Bitcoin?

Lecture 6: How does Bitcoin change international transactions?

Lecture 7: Interview: What is Money? Pt. 1/2 [Christopher Smith]

Lecture 8: Interview: What is Money? Pt. 2/2 [Christopher Smith]

Lecture 9: Interview: Improving internet transactions with Bitcoin [Greg Brockman]

Lecture 10: Interview: Why Bitcoin is good for merchants and creators Pt. 1/2 [Nick Tomaino]

Lecture 11: Interview: Why Bitcoin is good for merchants and creators Pt. 2/2 [Nick Tomaino]

Lecture 12: Interview: How Bitcoin can transform international markets [Brian Gamido]

Chapter 3: The Protocol

Lecture 1: Protocol Introduction

Lecture 2: Money transfers without Bitcoin

Lecture 3: Distributed Ledger: The Blockchain

Lecture 4: P2P Networks

Lecture 5: Digital Signatures

Lecture 6: Proof of Work

Lecture 7: Protocol Summary

Lecture 8: Interview: How the blockchain and Bitcoin mining work [Ross Mckelvie]

Lecture 9: Interview: Securing Bitcoin Pt. 1/2 [Olaf Carlson-Wee]

Lecture 10: Interview: Securing Bitcoin Pt. 2/2 [Olaf Carlson-Wee]

Lecture 11: Interview: An overview of Bitcoin mining Pt. 1/2 [Chris Shepherd]

Lecture 12: Interview: An overview of Bitcoin mining Pt. 2/2 [Chris Shepherd]

Lecture 13: Interview: Using the Bitcoin protocol to enable new ideas Pt. 1 [Adrian Macneil]

Lecture 14: Interview: Using the Bitcoin protocol to enable new ideas Pt. 2 [Adrian Macneil]

Chapter 4: Innovation in Bitcoin

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: Interview: Bitcoin will change the world Pt. 1/2 [Tim Draper]

Lecture 3: Interview: Bitcoin will change the world Pt. 2/2 [Tim Draper]

Lecture 4: Interview: Bitcoin as a utility for financial markets Pt. 1/3 [Adam Draper]

Lecture 5: Interview: Bitcoin as a utility for financial markets Pt. 2/3 [Adam Draper]

Lecture 6: Interview: Bitcoin as a utility for financial markets Pt. 3/3 [Adam Draper]

Lecture 7: Interview: Current roadblocks and future potential Pt. 1/2 [Matt Slater]

Lecture 8: Interview: Current roadblocks and future potential Pt. 2/2 [Matt Slater]

Lecture 9: Interview: The Bitcoin job market Pt. 1/2 [Derek Minter]

Lecture 10: Interview: The Bitcoin job market Pt. 2/2 [Derek Minter]

Chapter 5: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Getting started with Bitcoin

Lecture 2: How to get a Bitcoin wallet

Lecture 3: Making a purchase with Bitcoin

Lecture 4: Creating a Bitcoin Node

Chapter 6: Bonus Interviews

Lecture 1: Open Source

Lecture 2: Interview: The media perspective on Bitcoin [Daniel Cawrey]

Lecture 3: Interview: How legal tools can be useful for Bitcoin innovators [James Skelley]

Lecture 4: Interview: Bitcoin vs traditional alternatives Pt. 1/2 [Teemu Paivinen]

Lecture 5: Interview: Bitcoin vs traditional alternatives Pt. 2/2 [Teemu Paivinen]

Chapter 7: Supplemental Material

Lecture 1: Other resources

Instructors

Draper University
Education for Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Matt Schlicht
CEO of Octane AI

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 15 votes
2 stars: 26 votes
3 stars: 186 votes
4 stars: 418 votes
5 stars: 557 votes

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