Blockchain Training - United Kingdom

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Cryptography and Cryptocurrencies

Lessons

• Introduction to Cryptography and Cryptocurrency
• Cryptographic Hash Functions
• Hash Pointers and Data Structures
• Digital Signatures
• Public Keys as Identities
• A Simple Cryptocurrency

Module 2: How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralisation

Lessons

• Introduction to Bitcoins
• Centralisation vs Decentralisation
• Distributed Consensus
• Consensus without Identity Using a Blockchain
• Incentives and Proof of Work
• Cost Mining

Module 3: Mechanics of Bitcoin

Lessons

• Bitcoin Transactions
• Bitcoin Scripts
• Applications of Bitcoin Scripts
• Bitcoin Blocks
• The Bitcoin Network
• Limitations and Improvements

Module 4: How to Use and Store Bitcoins

Lessons

• Simple Local Storage
• Hot and Cold Storage
• Splitting and Sharing Keys
• Online Wallets and Exchanges
• Payment Services
• Transaction Fees
• Currency Exchange Markets

Module 5: Bitcoin Mining

Lesson

• The Task of Bitcoin Miners
• Mining Hardware
• Energy Consumption and Ecology
• Mining Pools
• Mining Incentives and Strategies

Module 6: Bitcoin and Anonymity

Lessons

• Anonymity Basics
• How to De-Anonymize Bitcoin?
• Mixing
• Decentralised Mixing
• Zerocoin and Zerocash

Module 7: Community, Politics, and Regulation

Lessons

•  Consensus in Bitcoin
•  Bitcoin Core Software
•  Stakeholders: Who's in Charge?
•  Roots of Bitcoin
•  Governments Notice Bitcoin
•  Anti-Money‐Laundering
•  Regulation

Module 8: Alternative Mining Puzzles

Lessons

• Essential Puzzle Requirements
• ASIC‐Resistant Puzzles
• Nonoutsourceable Puzzles
• Virtual Mining

Module 9: Bitcoin as a Platform

Lessons

• Bitcoin as an Append‐Only Log
• Bitcoins as “Smart Property”
• Secure Multi‐Party Lotteries in Bitcoin
• Bitcoin as Public Randomness Source
• Prediction Markets and Real-World Data Feeds

Module 10: Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

Lessons

• Introduction to Altcoins
• Relationship Between Bitcoin and Altcoins
• Merge Mining
• Atomic Cross‐Chain Swaps
• Bitcoin‐Backed Altcoins, “Side Chains”
• Ethereum and Smart Contracts

Ethereum Developer Training Course Outline

Introduction to Blockchain 101

• Define Distributed, Centralized and Decentralized Systems
• What is Blockchain?
• Transactions initiated in a network
• Blockchain working
• Difference between Blockchain and Traditional Databases
• Public/Private Key Cryptography
• Overview of Hash Functions and Merkle trees
• Cryptocurrency Mining
• Cryptocurrency wallet
• Proof of Work/ Consensus
• Introduction to Ethereum
• Ethereum vs Bitcoin
• Ethereum use cases

Introduction to Ethereum

• Overview of Ethereum
• The Ethereum Blockchain
• Ethereum Virtual Machine
• Smart Contracts
• Ether and Ether Mining
• Gas - Price and Limit
• Ethereum Tools – Mist, Swarm and Whisper
• Ethereum Framework – Web3.js, eth.js
• Ethereum in Today’s world (DAOs and DApps)
• Development Environment – Embark, Solidity IDE and Truffle
• Ethereum Networks – Koven, Ropsten, Rinkeby
• Webpack and Browserify

Solidity

• Introduction to Solidity
• Basics (version pragma and comments)
• Keywords
• Structure of a Contract
• Data Types (signed and unsigned int, boolean, address, strings)
• Data Structures (Structs, Arrays, Mapping)
• Looping and Conditional Statements
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism

Advanced Solidity

• Imports and Libraries
• Creating and Deploying Your Own Tokens
• Extended String Functionality and Bytes
• Custom Modifiers and Error Handling
• Event Logging and Handling
• Parameter Mapping
• Returning Multiple Variables
• State Modifiers (Pure/View/Constant/Payable)
• Transferring Ether Between Contracts (ERC20 and ERC223)
• Deployment
• Contract ABI
• Overview of the Truffle Framework
• Use web3.js and Metamask to Communicate Between Smart Contracts and HTML Pages
• Setting Up Event-Driven Interfaces
• Client-side Signing and Remotes Nodes for DApps

Developing a DApp Using Truffle

• Creating a Project Structure on Truffle
• Writing the Smart Contract
• Compiling and Migrating the Smart Contract
• Publishing the DApp
• Working of web3.js and Truffle with ReactJS
• Deploying Smart Contract Services on the Test Blockchain Network
• Running the DApp on the Ethereum Node Using Metamask