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Tech Recruiting Foundations: 7 Recruiting for Blockchain

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Learn enough about blockchain to hire talent for your organization.

Syllabus

1. Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Digitization of Trust
  • Introduction to blockchain recruitment
  • Time for the digitization of trust
  • Fiat currencies: The IOU's in your pocket
  • How strong are our institutions?
  • The birth of change
2. The Legacy of Centralized Systems
  • Understanding centralized systems
  • The power of centralized systems
  • One November night in India
  • Centralized databases and banking
  • The beauty of decentralized systems
  • The benefits of going p2p
3. Understanding Cryptography and Encryption
  • What is cryptography?
  • Early cryptography
  • Cryptography in the world wars
  • Public key cryptography
  • David Chaum and blind signatures
  • Cypherpunks and techno-socialism
  • Nick Szabo and smart contracts
  • Who are Satoshi Nakamoto?
4. Bitcoin and the Blockchain
  • What Satoshi Nakamoto created
  • The difference between bitcoin and blockchain
  • The ledger: The core of bitcoin
  • Lost bitcoins and expensive pizzas
  • The open ledger
  • Digital consensus
  • Everyone is the banker
  • Scarcity dictates the value
  • What a cryptocurrency needs to achieve
  • The problem of centralization
  • The problem of the double spend
5. How Blockchain Works
  • Diving into blockchain architecture
  • How does the blockchain network work?
  • Why 'block' and why 'chain'?
  • Entering the blockchain system
  • Bitcoin miners
  • The anatomy of a block
6. Other Cryptocurrencies
  • The top cryptocurrencies
  • Ripple
  • Litecoin and bitcoin cash
  • Libra
7. Smart Contracts and Ethereum
  • Key differences between Ethereum and bitcoin
  • Smart contracts
  • Recruiting Ethereum developers
  • Smart contracts and IoT
  • Advantages of smart contracts
8. Hyperledger and Private Blockchains
  • What is Hyperledger?
  • Hyperledger Fabric and private blockchain
9. Blockchain Disruption across Industries
  • Blockchain in the financial sector
  • Identity
  • Internet of Things and supply chain
10. Strengths and Weaknesses of Blockchain
  • The benefits of blockchain technology
  • The downsides of blockchain
  • Trust issues and dodgy links
11. Recruiting Blockchain Candidates
  • Recruiting blockchain candidates
  • Core blockchain developers and architects
  • Cryptography
  • Blockchain software developer

Taught by

Holistica Consulting and Ayub Shaikh

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