blockchain101-kle

Blockchain workshop @ KLE technological university

Slides of all 4 sessions: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hdkEqhWiESs5WYEtmaZj8zVjGtkped_F?usp=sharing

Agenda

Session - 1:

• Blockchain and Decentralization.
• DLTs and types DLT
• Distributed ledger technology (DLT) vs distributed databases
• Understanding the consensus algorithms
• Achieving consensus in a decentralized network.
• Decentralization with peer-to-peer (P2P) networking.
• Block synchronization, validation in the P2P network.
• Simulating a decentralized blockchain application

Session - 2:

• Introduction to cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin
• Bitcoin full nodes, mining nodes, and wallets
• Bitcoin keys and addresses
• Bitcoin transactions and scripting language
• Introduction to advanced scripting (smart contracts)
• Bitcoin scaling solutions

Session - 3:

• Ethereum background
• Basics of Ethereum
• Mining and consensus algorithm
• Ethereum accounts, EVM, networks
• Ethereum smart contracts
• Building and deploying a Solidity contract
• Setting up an Ethereum development environment
• Create a "Hello World" smart contract
• Create a proof of ownership DApp

Session - 4:

• Blockchain decision tree
• Blockchain use cases and selection of the platform
• Building a p2p lending application

Pre requisites

• Recommended to use a system of 4 GB RAM (Don't worry, we can still make it work).

• Although you can work on any platform (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), a Debian based operating system (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali) is preferred. You can also install a docker container for Ubuntu 16.04 if you are comfortable with Linux (Optional).

  docker pull ubuntu
  docker run ubuntu:16.04 grep -v '^#' /etc/apt/sources.list
  docker run -it ubuntu:16.04 /bin/bash
  
  

  Run this inside the docker container:

  $ apt-get install software-properties-common

• Install a python interpreter >= 3.5.

• It would be great if you also setup a latest version of nodejs and npm. Here is a install guide for Ubuntu system.