Blockchain Week 2023 Course
BWR23 Course Description
Important: the course will be held in Italian.
The Bitcoin and digital asset industry is increasingly complex and often treacherous to navigate. Because of the thousands of different projects and tools available, users beginning a journey in the industry are often confused and end up making mistakes that put their capital at risk.
The Blockchain Week Rome course, now in its fourth edition, is designed to take users who are new to the industry, or who want to go deeper into it, on a guided path of analysis and understanding of the fundamental concepts. Thanks to the course, users will be able to learn how to recognize the risks and opportunities, understand the differences between Bitcoin and “crypto,” and analyze the tools, platforms and players in this world, building the solid foundation necessary to continue to study these topics in depth.
During the course days you will also be able to ask your questions to the teachers. Below you can read the key points of the new course, which has been completely renewed compared to previous editions and divided into three macro areas.
Blockchain Intensive Course Modules
Part 1 - Bitcoin
- Why Bitcoin?
- Historical background on Bitcoin
- Basic protocol concepts: blockchain, transactions, cryptography
- Mining: the key features of Proof of Work
- Bitcoin nodes
- Bitcoin wallets: signing devices, types of wallets
- Why safekeeping your Bitcoins is crucial
- Buying and selling Bitcoin: exchanges, P2P, other methods
- Focus on recommended tools
- A look into the future: BIPs
- Lightning Network: micro payments with Bitcoin
- Bitcoin: a multidisciplinary learning journey
Part 2 - The crypto world
- Why crypto and Bitcoin are not the same thing
- Ethereum: basic concepts and how it works
- Proof of stake and validation
- Types of tokens: utility, security, exchange
- NFT: the non-fungible tokens
- Stablecoin: main projects and use cases
- Capital raising via tokens: methods and legal background
- Layer 2 of ethereum
- Main altcoins: smart contract platforms, privacy coin, exchange tokens, gaming tokens
- Defi: does decentralized finance really exist? Platform analysis and case studies (Uniswap, Compound, AAVE, Maker, etc.)
- Wallets and main tools
- Risks and dangers
Part 3 - Investment and project analysis, doing business in the industry, working in the industry, taxation
- Strategies for investing in the industry
- Analyzing a project: metrics, characteristics, documentation, public materials, red flags
- Information asymmetry
- Gambling vs. investing
- Industry scams: case studies, FTX and other projects
- FOMO: how to avoid common mistakes
- Main business models in Bitcoin and the crypto world
- Hints on regulation
- Careers in the industry: the most in-demand skills and how to acquire them
- “Stay humble and stack sats”
- Insight: taxation and tax aspects
Bitcoin and crypto world quiz by Binance Italy
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