Beginners Guide to Real Life Applications of Blockchain

Understand the main concept behind the blockchain, and find out how it can improve the world.

Created by: Siim Õunap
Expert Advisor on Financial Technologies

What Will I Learn?

• Why should I care about blockchain
• Transaction on the Blockchain (how the blockchain helps you send money everywhere)
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with blockchain
• The Equifax Breach in the USA
• Becoming e-Estonia
• Banking the Unbanked
• What is Gas
• How does the ethereum Blockchain work
• What is SegWit; Problem with the Current System; How can we solve it
• What does Increasing the Blocksize Mean? SegWit2x

Requirements

• There are no prerequisites but general background knowledge of blockchain will help you to follow the course better

Target audience

• People who are interested in real life applications of blockchain
• People who are interested in using blockchain to protect data
• People who are interested in e-governance and how Estonia has become the first e-country
• People who are interested in blockchain filling the void in the current banking system
• People who are interested in smart contracts, Ethereum and how it all comes together