Blockchain Video Course

Bitcoin introduction, what is Bitcoin?, Bitcoins network, Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin wallets, Blockchain alternatives, smart contract, public network and private consortium, Ethereum virtual machine, Ethereum environment, Merkle tree, Dapps, Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), double-spend problem, Blockchain impact on cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin mechanics, transcriptions, scripts, peer-to-peer network, blocks, and security measures.

Identification of Bitcoins and their era, where and how to get Bitcoins, identifying Bitcoin wallets, Jaxx wallet, defining the selling of Bitcoins, comparing between Bitcoin and Blockchain, transaction and transaction scripts, defining scripts in Bitcoin, describing various transaction forms in Bitcoin, listing the nodes in Bitcoin network, etc.

Understanding Bitcoin Economics, what is Bitcoin mining?, fabrication of block header, defining mining, understanding more about mining: identification of the successful mining, types of mining pools, what is solo mining?, listing the problems in solo mining, benefits of pooled mining, consensus, independent verification of mining, autonomous verification of mining, the checklist for the mining verification, combining transactions into blocks, combining verified transactions, portrayal of difficulty, condition of difficulty, the creation of block header, main chain, orphan block, the creation of a new block, independent validation of the new block, race for Bitcoin mining and hash race, difficulty with the hashing power of miners, etc.

Understanding Ethereum, defining Smart Contracts, Ethereum cryptocurrencies’ identification, Ethereum transactions, the consensus mechanism in Ethereum, listing various development technologies, how to identify Ethereum clients, defining platform functions, understanding and describing Solidity operators and functions, the MetaMask setup, Ethereum network interfacing, the first smart contract, Ethereum accounts and how to go about receiving Ether, structuring a contract, declaring a function, deploying and redeploying a contract; comparing between Wei and Ether, Remix testing, what is a gas transaction?, etc.

The creation of smart contracts on Ethereum, Remix browser, defining MetaMask, Blockchain installation, Go language installation, explaining Blockchain creation: the genesis block list, genesis.json file parameters, and Blockchain making rules, performing Blockchain mining, Blockchain environment contract deployment, boilerplate requirements, project file walkthrough, syntax highlighters, compiling Solidity and script, the testing architecture, installing modules, running Windows, Web3 Versioning, Web3 Providers, Refactor to Async/Await, deployment with Web3, Web3 Version Fix, initial message verification, testing message updates, deployed contracts in Remix, Crowdfunding Smart Contract, Voting Ballot Smart Contract, application architecture of Ethereum and its overview, getting started with create-react-app, multiple Web3 instances, Web3 setup, etc.

Understanding Hyperledger Blockchain and Hyperledger consensus algorithm, explaining Hyperledger Iroha, identifying different Hyperledger components, learning about Channels, Policies, and Chaincodes, listing various Hyperledger Explorer components, defining Hyperledger Composer, Hyperledger introduction: what is Hyperledger? distributed ledger technology and its challenges, Hyperledger Fabric Developer Environment tools, their usage, and their setup on: Windows, Mac OS, Linux/Ubuntu, AWS, and Cloud virtual machines, Development Environment topology, Fabric Under Hood: concepts and terminologies, ledger implementation; Dev Environment walkthrough: Orderer and CA Server, Peer and CouchDB setup, Peer nodes: Anchor Peers, and Endorsing Peers, Client nodes, Orderer nodes, Endorsement Policies, Membership Service Provider and Certification Authority, and Chaincode Development.

Hyperledger Composer and its benefits, Hyperledger conceptual components, the structure and example: business network automated auction market for cars, model, metadata, script file, ACL, open-development toolsets, archive, business networks testing, business networks modeling, Hyperledger Composer playground, and using Hyperledger Composer to develop applications.

Defining MultiChain and describing its various streams, creating and deploying a private Blockchain, explaining how to connect to Blockchain, identifying MultiChain interactive mode, defining the Transaction Metadata, listing Native assets, streams and mining, Bitcoin to private Blockchain, the hand-shake process, the aim of MultiChain, various use cases of MultiChain; MultiChain permission and assets, the basics of retrieving from streams, consensus model, MultiChain flexibility, deployment options, speed and scalability, downloading and installing, initializing and connecting to Blockchain from a second server, connection permission, creating a new address, permission to create assets, new assets, native assets, connected peers, checking asset balance, verifying transactions, and resending assets.

Potential use cases in Blockchain, the proof of existence, identity management, record keeping, UPROOV: Mobile Trust Machine, online music problem solution, car leasing and sales, DocuSign, Forecasting, Augur, log operational maintenance data, cloud storage, STORJ: decentralized cloud storage, Retail: OpenBazaar, Ascribe: for securing your work, ride sharing, and supply chain management, Blockchain and IoT, autonomous decentralized peer-to-peer telemetry, IOTA, Freight Transportation, IBM Watson IoT, ADEPT, banking industry projects: payments, trading platform, KYC, loan management process, capital market system, and fraud reduction, government: online voting, real estate, capital markets, and devising public policies, Estonia: identity management and e-voting, Georgia: Blockchain land registry, Delaware, USA: Smart Contracts and making public policies, and Dubai: Digital passports.

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