Charles Hoskinson
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Charles Hoskinson is a skilled instructor known for providing valuable insights and expert guidance to learners seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills.
Bitcoin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crypto
Discover the definitive guide to Bitcoin, covering its value, transactions, mining, and speculation, all within a free community-built course for beginners.
Brief Summary
This friendly Bitcoin course is totally for beginners! It explains what Bitcoin is, why it matters, and how you can even start mining your own. Plus, you can ask questions and get deeper insights whenever you want. How cool is that?
Key Points
- Introduction to Bitcoin for beginners
- No prior knowledge required
- Understanding Bitcoin's value and uses
- Exploration of Bitcoin mining and distribution
- Offering bonus lectures for specific inquiries
Learning Outcomes
- Explain what Bitcoin is and its significance
- Start mining bitcoins if interested
- Engage in speculation on Bitcoin exchanges
- Understand the economy surrounding Bitcoin
- Ask for and participate in bonus lectures
About This Course
The definitive guide to understand what the bitcoin is and why we should care about them.
Welcome to the first community built BItcoin course! This course serves as a central point of introduction to Bitcoin for anyone interested. It assumes no special skills or knowledge nor experience in computer science. All are welcome and the course shall forever be free under a creative commons license.
The course is divided into several sections. The Core Lecture Path serves as a comprehensive introduction for beginners on all relevant topics necessary to have a deep understanding of Bitcoin including why Bitcoins have value, why they can be used for anonymous transactions, the current economy of Bitcoins, how they are made and distributed as well as speculation.
The bonus lecture path addresses specific questions students have asked and are not necessary for to satisfy the goals of the course. Feel free to request a bonus lecture at any time! Finally, there are dedicated tracks for more in-depth analysis of the theoretical concepts of Bitcoin alongside the software that makes makes Bitcoin work well.
Bitcoin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crypto by Charles Hoskinson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
By the end of this course, you will be able to explain what a bitcoin is and why we should care about them
You will be able to start mining bitcoins if you desire
You will be able to speculate on the bitcoin exchanges
Course Curriculum
8 Lectures
9 Lectures
2 Lectures
Instructors
Instructors
Brian Göss
Dr. Goss is a resident physician training in radiology at a leading medical institution in southeastern Minnesota. He received his medical degree from Rush University in Chicago in 2009, following a masters degree in biomedical engineering from the Mayo Clinic in 2006. Dr. Goss also holds a BA in Mathematics and a BS in Physics and Astronomy from the University...
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程小贝
amazing！！！
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Ismail A. B.
yes a nice introduction
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Arvind B.
Awesome
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Yuen
Comprehensive! Though it is not up-to-date, this still serves a foundation understanding on cryto development.
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Miikka P.
Good course. I liked most the conversations in section 5 with Jon Matonis.
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Michał S.
Zaskakująco dobrze przewidział rozwój BTC z perspektywy kilkunastu lat wstecz
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Rogerio D. L. P.
O curso é muito bom. Claro que o ambiente das blockchains e cryptocurrencies evoluiu, mas é interessante aprender como tudo começou e observar como muitas das previsões feitas naquela época mostraram-se corretas, algumas até muito modestas.
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Mark
Excellent course. Very glad I took the time to complete.
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Rowan M.
Great course! Very easy to understand, easy to follow, the lecturer has a nice voice to listen to, and it is nicely detailed and eloborate.
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Todd E. B.
A great deal of information presented in a relatively short lecture.