This course explains blockchain with examples, focusing on innovations, workings, and business uses like identity and privacy. It covers cryptocurrency, finance, and app development with demos and stories. Guest speakers from UNICEF and the European Commission provide insights.
Overview
Syllabus
- What's Different About Blockchain?
- Trust
- Blocks and chains
- Notarization
- Who owns it - if anybody?
- About electricity…
- Back to business
- Blockchain for humanitarian aid
- Downloads
- Assignment Week 1
- Cryptocurrencies and the Financial World
- Who gave crypto its value?
- From mining gold to mining crypto
- Wallets
- Unstable and stablecoins
- Liquidity
- About DeFi with Alessandro Gasch
- Commerce, finance, treasury
- Blockchain at the UNICEF Office of Innovation
- Downloads
- Assignment Week 2
- Digital Identity Under Your Full Control
- Identity – Is there a problem?
- Avoiding databases
- Trust, but verify
- Human, business, and device identities
- EU Blockchain Initiatives
- Downloads
- Assignment Week 3
- Tokens and Decentralized Applications
- What's that - a token?
- Smart contracts
- dApps
- Multiple layers
- An Ethereum conversation
- Sustainability and more
- Trust, blocks, and chains
- Downloads
- Assignment Week 4
