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Blockchain : what is it and what is it used for ?

An introduction to blockchain
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (2 ratings)
9 students
Created by Christophe Debonneuil
Last updated 7/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • Blockchain Fundamentals
  • How Bitcoin works
  • Blockchain use cases like Health, Finance, Supply-chain, Identity...)

Requirements

  • No requirement

Description

Since a couple of years now, we have heard a lot about blockchain, how it will revolutionize the way we live and work. Actually, this technology really impacts deeply how businesses and people will be organized in the near future. This course will enable you to reveal the mystery that is behind this buzz word. 

At the end of the course, you will have a clear understanding of what a blockchain is and the revolutionary properties it has. You will also be able to realize how it is used in so many fields to do more efficiently what was done before by oldest technologies, but also to enable to achieve totally new things. You will be able to meet blockchain specialists and get a full sense of how blockchain transform businesses.

Who this course is for:

  • It appears in your work environment and you are wondering how to leverage it
  • You heard about it but you never fully grasped what it is
  • You know nothing about blockchain

Course content

7 sections • 45 lectures • 3h 3m total length

  • Preview02:07
  • Preview01:19
  • Structure of the course
    02:43

  • Setting the scene
    03:44
  • Consensus algorithm
    05:59
  • The three layers
    03:27
  • Security feature #1 : Byzantine Fault Tolerance and double spending
    05:21
  • Security feature #2 : Hash
    05:28
  • Security feature #3 : Immutability
    05:18
  • Security feature #4 : Cryptography
    06:51
  • Bonus : Asymmetric cryptography
    03:52

  • Property #1 : open/closed, public/private, permissionless/permissioned
    06:09
  • Property #2 : chain of blocks or not chain of blocks
    02:03
  • Property #3 : speed
    03:10
  • Property #4 : decentralization
    02:12
  • The trade-off decentralization - speed - security
    01:06
  • Property #5 : fees
    01:40
  • Property #6 : pseudonymity
    03:29
  • What is a smart contract ?
    03:43
  • Smart contracts in action : Remix
    03:48
  • Example #1 : escrow
    03:45
  • Example #2 : DAO
    04:07
  • What is a token ?
    03:50
  • Types of tokens : payment, utility, security
    03:48
  • Stable coins. Libra and CBDC
    05:19
  • ICO and STO
    03:49
  • Tokenization
    02:48

  • When NOT to use a blockchain ?
    05:36
  • Connecting with other digital technologies
    02:48

  • Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper
    03:16
  • Bitcoin address and private key
    02:58
  • Blocks and layers
    07:01
  • Preview07:09
  • Preview09:36
  • Who are the miners ?
    02:29
  • Conclusion
    02:45

  • Blockchain and the trustful third party
    03:50
  • A classification of use cases
    07:29
  • Towards totally new use cases
    03:27
  • Usecase #1 : finance
    04:01
  • Usecase #2 : supply chain & global trade
    03:44
  • Usecase #3 : health
    03:11
  • Usecase #4 : government services
    04:36
  • Usecase #5 : identity
    06:32

  • Congratulations
    01:40

Instructor

Christophe Debonneuil
Trainer at OECD and ESSEC Business School on Blockchain
Christophe Debonneuil
  • 4.7 Instructor Rating
  • 2 Reviews
  • 9 Students
  • 1 Course

Graduated from two of the best French "grande écoles" : Ecole Centrale de Lyon Engineer School and HEC Business School, I taught blockchain at OECD (100+ professional trained in 2020) and at ESSEC Business School (50 students on sept-dec 2020). I published a glossary for UNESCO in 2019. In May 2020, I trained the Secretary General of OECD during a 2 hour private session.

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