Crypto Concepts for Absolute Beginners
What you'll learn
- You will understand the basics concepts of crypto and blockchains.
- You will be able to analyze the type of applications that are best addressed using the crypto approach.
- You will be able to send and receive Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) and also to verify the details of BTC and ETH transactions.
- You will understand the concepts underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- You will get to know about the issues with Bitcoin and Ethereum. You will get a brief idea about the current approaches to address these issues.
- Finally, you will know about Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and be ready for diving deeper into DeFi in future courses.
Requirements
- You just need to be curious about crypto and interested in exploring how to get started with crypto.
Description
Are you curious about Crypto? You have heard about Crypto being the foundation of the next Internet revolution. And you do not want to miss out on this revolution. But then you do not know how to start.
If so, this course is right for you.
You will start by learning about crypto at a high level. What is the promise of the crypto approach and why is crypto going to power the next Internet revolution. You will learn about the types of problems that are best solved using the crypto approach. You will also be exposed to reasons that people give to support their claim that crypto is a scam. And you will see how crypto is expanding both in terms of creation of wealth as well as in terms of the number of users.
Then in the second part of the course you will focus on learning about the Bitcoin blockchain. You will learn about wallets and get hands-on experience in sending and receiving BTC. I also explain the basic concepts of Bitcoin in this part of the course. So you will understand the concept of blockchains, Proof-of-Work (POW) Mining and Consensus by the time you finish this part of the course.
In the final part of the course, you will focus on the Ethereum blockchain. You will get hands-on experience in sending and receiving ETH using a wallet. You will learn about the basic concepts of Ethereum such as smart contracts, validators and Proof of Stake (POS) in this part of the course. You will then be able to compare and contrast the concepts underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.
Who this course is for:
- For everyone who is curious about Crypto but does not know how to get started
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 40 Reviews
- 68 Students
- 1 Course
I have founded several companies including the latest in the space of Crypto. I also teach crypto courses at Harrisburg University. I have taught at several other universities in the past including at UPenn, Stevens, Rutgers etc.
The companies that I have co-founded in the past have leveraged ideas from machine learning and Internet of Things.
I have also authored nearly 100 research papers and multiple books.
And now I am all in on the crypto revolution since this is going to be the next big thing on the Internet.