Tech Recruiting Foundations: 7 Recruiting for Blockchain
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
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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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- The top cryptocurrencies
- Ripple
- Litecoin and bitcoin cash
- Libra
- Key differences between Ethereum and bitcoin
- Smart contracts
- Recruiting Ethereum developers
- Smart contracts and IoT
- Advantages of smart contracts
- What is Hyperledger?
- Hyperledger Fabric and private blockchain
- Blockchain in the financial sector
- Identity
- Internet of Things and supply chain
- The benefits of blockchain technology
- The downsides of blockchain
- Trust issues and dodgy links
- Recruiting blockchain candidates
- Core blockchain developers and architects
- Cryptography
- Blockchain software developer
Taught by
Holistica Consulting and Ayub Shaikh
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