Metaverse and Bitcoin Fundamentals Course

Explore augmented reality and how it adds a layer to our reality, illustrated by cartoon-style filters on Snapchat and Instagram.

Virtual reality overlays a virtual layer on reality, delivered through glasses like the Oculus. You control an avatar that represents you, while motion devices capture movements to drive the action.

Learn how to buy cryptocurrency through exchanges, use hot and cold wallets, and understand public/private keys, blockchain, smart contracts, and tether stablecoins.

Decode smart contracts as programs on the blockchain that execute when conditions are met, automating agreements without intermediaries. Use a bitcoin payment example to show how blockchain contracts work.

Explore how bitcoin launched the decentralized digital currency movement, eliminating middlemen like banks, reducing fees, and enabling global peer-to-peer transactions verified by miners earning rewards and recorded on the blockchain.

Explain why Bitcoin may not stay the top cryptocurrency, citing its limited usability, fixed supply, and the end of minting, while Etherium, Solana, and Polygon enable dapps and DeFi.

Explore how Mehta, the rebranded Facebook, frames the metaverse as a collaborative effort with policymakers, experts, and industry partners, plus a $50 million investment for responsible development.

Identify the industries poised to be transformed by the metaverse, including gaming, media and entertainment, e-commerce and retail, manufacturing, and architecture and engineering.

Clarify that meta is a company, while metaverse is a virtual world blending AR and VR, with examples like Decentraland and Sandbox and related crypto concepts.

Explore how Bitcoin fuels the metaverse and learn to integrate Bitcoin into a virtual room with friends in under ten minutes.

Create a metaverse room and integrate Bitcoin via a wallet public key. Learn why Bitcoin is called digital gold, with a capped supply and a 2140 end.

Build a metaverse room from scratch using drag-and-drop, no-code tools in Decentraland. Add assets, a bitcoin address, and Opensea links to showcase land and NFT integration.

Learn how to display art, jewelry, NFTs, and online courses in the metaverse, using Bitcoin wallet integration, QR codes, and links to showcase creativity and business.

This lecture answers frequently asked questions on metaverse and bitcoin, argues it is worth it, not a fad, and highlights early adopters shaping a 13 trillion metaverse economy by 2025.