Bitcoin and Blockchain - An Introduction

This course will introduce you to the fascinating and rapidly growing world of bitcoin (cryptocurrencies) and blockchain technologies. The future of money rests in digital currency and the most famous of digital currencies at the time of this writing is bitcoin. Bitcoin is intimately linked to a technology referred to as blockchain an unchangeable chronological list of all transactions that can be linked to and confirmed within a given digital currency. This course provides an overview of the definition history and application of bitcoin and blockchain and then focuses specifically on their application along with a brief synopsis of future trends markets for their application and the future of crime in the blockchain economy. 

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