New Year's holidays are an excellent occasion to devote your free time to education and raising your own crypto qualification. As noted by well-known financial analyst Joseph Jung, an independent study of coding can serve as an alternative to expensive training in American colleges for many millenial. DeCenter has collected eight of the best free webinars on cryptocurrency and blockchain. It is worth noting that educational materials are mainly presented in English, so in addition to knowledge about cryptocurrency, everyone can also check how well they understand the terminology.
A series of courses "Introduction to Digital Currencies"
This educational program, presented in the framework of the blockchain initiative of the University of Nicosia, is perhaps one of the most popular free courses on the cryptographic market. The teachers are well-known blockchain and cryptocurrency experts Andreas Antonopoulos and Antonis Polemitis. The online program consists of 12 courses on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, various consensus protocols, the practical application of Bitcoin, and the relationship of financial institutions to digital assets. Special knowledge for the passage of the program is not required, so it is ideal for learning from scratch, but you should keep in mind that all lectures are in English.
The course “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies” on the Coursera site
Coursera, founded by two computer science professors at Stanford University, is one of the most popular online education sites. The free course Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies was developed by the staff of Princeton University. Teachers will help to understand the basics of cryptography, give basic knowledge of programming and introduce the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. It will take 18 hours to complete a full course - 4 hours a week, but it is not necessary to pass it entirely: you can select only topics of interest.
The Bitcoin Course at Draper University
The Draper University, founded by legendary investor and crypto-entrepreneur Tim Draper, together with the ZapChain project team launched an educational course dedicated to the first cryptocurrency. As part of this course, everyone will be able to learn the history of the creation and development of Bitcoin, as well as get access to a series of interviews with experts of the crypto industry. It takes 7 hours to complete the full course.
IBM Quick Code Site
The IT giant IBM offers a wide range of free educational courses on the Quick Code site, including cryptocurrency and blockchain. These courses will primarily be of interest to developers who would like to work with the blockchain. Webinar teachers will talk about how to create an architecture and run their own private blockchain-network on IBM Bluemix, how smart contracts are arranged, what happens during digital asset transactions, and how to work with Fabric from the Hyperledger project. Duration varies on the subject of the selected course.
Coindesk Educational Articles
Well-known media about the digital economy Coindesk has prepared more than forty lectures on cryptocurrency and blockchain. In small informational articles, the publication explains how the system of distributed registries works, how to use it, who Satoshi Nakamoto is, how to buy cryptocurrency, and much more. Excellent basic course for beginners.
Course "Bitcoin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crypto" on the Udemy platform
Another course of lectures on Bitcoin for beginners, in which, in addition to theory, you can get practical skills, is presented on the Udemy online learning platform. As part of this course, everyone who wants to learn not only how Bitcoin works, but also learn how to make money on it. In addition, they will tell you how to safely mine and store cryptocurrency, as well as help to join the crypto-community. The teacher, the mathematician, the crypto-evangelist Charles Hoskinson and the senior researcher at Udemy Brian Hess promise that after this course everyone will be able to tell themselves what cryptocurrency is and why they are needed. The six-hour course will provide access to educational materials in video and audio format, as well as to 13 resources for downloading reading materials.
Short course "Cryptocurrency Trading Explained" on the Udemy platform
As part of this course, on the Udemy site, everyone will be able to gain a basic knowledge of cryptocurrency trading. In particular, how to register on crypto-accounts, what risks novice traders may face, as well as how to ensure the security of their own funds. Moreover, the creators of the Cryptocurrency Trading Explained course ranked the best trading sites for beginners and explained how to exchange fiat money for cryptocurrencies and withdraw the profit, how to distinguish successful tokensiles tokens from those that will cause losses. It takes an hour and a half to complete the course.
Coinbase Earn Educational Platform
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