Key Questions in Blockchain
Faculty
Anish Mohammed
Co Founder and CTO of Ztrade, Head of Research at Information Sciences Institute, SRH Berlin
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Overview
Although Bitcoin has made a lot of headlines since its mysterious appearance on the international stage in 2009, it is really the blockchain technology behind it which has the potential to transform the financial industry.
From developing blockchain-based digital assets and financial instruments, to keeping track of ownership of property through secure private ledgers, the underlying “distributed trustless consensus” structure opens the doors to a more secure, cost-effective and market-transparent alternative to just relying on the trust and services traditionally provided by large financial institutions.
Learning highlights
- This module introduces and demystifies blockchain, its core characteristics and limitations, and more importantly helps frame the key questions to ask in order to get the most out of this powerful technology; when can it provide an efficient solution and when does it become overkill!
Course outline
5 classes
Session 1
A Brief Introduction to Blockchain
Session 2
Consensus
Session 3
Security
Session 4
Privacy
Session 5
Crypto economics / Token Engineering
Course materials
Books
Prerequisites
This course is one of three in a wholistic series.
Students that have already taken MSL-111 and those with prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript building simple web pages will be good candidates for this module.
Anish has been working in the field of security and cryptography for the last two decades, both as a researcher and a consultant.
Over the past seven years he has become more involved in the Blockchain ecosystem as one of the founding members of the United Kingdom Digital Currency Association (UKDCA). He has advised and worked for various banks and financial institutions including AIB, HSBC, Lloyds and Zurich. He was also an early advisor to Ripple and spends his spare time on the Ethereum Swarm project.
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Key Questions in Blockchain
by Anish Mohammed
Total hours
15 Hours
Dates
Oct 29 - Nov 02, 2018
Fee for single course
€500
Fee for degree students
€250
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