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Overview

Understand exactly what blockchain is all about

Duration

14 weeks

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Beginner

Official Website

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Credential

Certificate

Future job roles

Foreign currency, Foreign Exchange, Foreign Trade, Network Security Engineer, Forecasting

Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications
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Highlights

  • Offered by The Linux Foundation
  • Certificate of Completion
  • Understand all about Blockchain, its impact and possibilities for change.
  • Analyze use cases in technology, business, and enterprise products and institutions.
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Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications
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Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Beginners and Professional Programmers
What are the course deliverables?
  • Optional Paid Certificate of Completion
  • Unlimited Access to Online Course
  • Discussion Forums
  • Video Content
  • Hands-on Labs & Assignments
More about this course
  • The course Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications introduces the nuances of Blockchain technology and how it is changing business execution, as well as how Blockchain is different from previously used technologies.
  • The initial part of the course ?Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications? covers basic concepts of Blockchain and how it?s instrumental in creating triple ledger system which has been introduced for cryptocurrency administration, especially Bitcoin.
  • The course also covers Blockchain applications from a business perspective across domains like government, finance, banking, supply chain, etc. Additionally, once can dive into related governance and various methods of Blockchain governance laws applicable in today?s marketplace. The course also talks about how consensus fits into governance by exploring how to reach consensus through proof-of-work or proof-of-stake.
  • The final portion of the course matter is all about problem solving and Blockchain use cases. One can complete the same by analyzing real world examples of how global industries are implementing Blockchain technology to boost their bottom line.
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Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications
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Curriculum

Introduction to Blockchain

Governance and Consensus

Blockchain Problem Solving

Blockchain Use Cases

Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications
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MUKUL K KHANNA
Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications
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Learning Experience: Block chain fundamentals - required from a business leaders perspective / use cases / implications / the tests were MCQ based and quite simple if one had read the course well / can finish in a concentrated burst over 4 days
Faculty: these were recorded sessions by Linux Foundation faculty - articulate and simple yes - good uses cases / case studies which were updated and extremely relevant
Course Support: no - just finished - but hope to leverage the knowledge
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Abhinav Shukla
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Other: Amazing course!! loved the content and overall flow of the curriculum. I got to learn about blockchain and cryptocurrencies architecture. The certificate is a bit pricey though.
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