Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

Blockchain Technology is mainly evolved from a perspective of decentralized financial system and promoting the cashless economy. The digital ledger where the transactions made in Bitcoin or else another cryptocurrency that are recorded publicly and chronologically. This technology has radically improved supply chain and other transactions network.

Why Bitcoin - Blockchain?

The blockchain is considered as the network of computers or else devices which is open to anyone of all which must approve a transaction that has taken place before the recorded in a “chain” of computer code. It is completely about Digital finance which is about saving, depositing and transferring money, accessing credit and insurance and performing digital channels through online banking, mobile phones, cards, computers, tablets etc. There are incredible career opportunities for the all the certified Blockchain Developers to make a career in top notch companies.

As per the reports, the Blockchain Technology market is segmented in various fields such as

• Banking Sector
• Financial Institutes
• Insurance Sectors
• Media and Entertainment Sector
• Government and Public Sector
• Healthcare and Life science sector
• Retail and ECommerce Sector
• Automotive Sector

Topics to be Covered during Workshop 

Session I- Introduction to Cryptocurrency

• Transformation in trading units
• Cryptography and Crypto-currency
• Anonymity and Pseudonymity in Cryptocurrencies 
• Digital Signatures
• Cryptocurrency Hash codes 
• Peer to peer networks (structured and unstructured)

Session II- Overview of Blockchain

• Introduction to Blockchain and its Origin
• Why Blockchain is crucial and its objectives
• Blockchain terminologies
• Distinction between databases and blockchain
• Distributed Ledger 
• Understanding Blockchain ecosystem and structure
•  How blockchain works 
• Types of blockchain

Session III: Bitcoin and Blockchain Data Structures

• Introduction to Bitcoin and its usage
• Blockchain Data structures
• Where and how to buy bitcoins
• How to store bitcoins?
• Bitcoin transactions
• Blockchain block structure
• Scripting language in bitcoin
• Nodes and network of bitcoin

Session IV- Bitcoin Mining

• Introduction to Bitcoin Mining, 
• Bitcoin – Network and process, 
• Bitcoin mining explained
• Bitcoin cloud mining
• Mining Developments – Incentives
• Security 

Duration: The duration of this workshop will be two consecutive days, with eight hour session each day in a total of sixteen hours properly divided into theory and hands on sessions.

Certification Policy:

• Certificate of Participation for all the workshop participants.
• At the end of this workshop, a small competition will be organized among the participating students and winners will be awarded with a 'Certificate of Excellence'.
• Certificate of Coordination for the coordinators of the campus workshops.

Eligibility: There are no prerequisites. Anyone interested, can join this workshop.