How blockchain can transform multi-trillion dollar industries | Alex & Don Tapscott Explain
Tech evangelists Alex and Don Tapscott discuss the most important use cases of blockchain technology, its vulnerabilities, and why CBDCs will need this technology to succeed.
Blockchain Revolution for the Enterprise Specialization
Blockchain is poised to transform every industry and managerial function—redefining the ways we transact online, share ideas, and manage workflows. It’s a new technology that every business professional needs to understand.
The Specialization is taught by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, globally-recognized authorities on innovation and technology and authors of the best-selling book Blockchain Revolution. The Specialization also includes various industry experts and developers from Ethereum, Grid Singularity, Keyless Technologies, and ResonanceX who will share their experiences within the blockchain ecosystem.
What will students learn?
Seven design principles for the ‘Blockchain Revolution’
Top 10 challenges for implementing blockchain technology
Terms such as miner, hash, nonce, consensus mechanism, public key cryptography, cryptoasset, smart contract, DApp, and self-sovereign identity
Blockchain use-cases within your industry, and business model decisions to assess feasibility
Courses included in this Specialization:
Introduction to Blockchain Technologies
Transacting on the Blockchain
Blockchain and Business: Applications and Implications
Blockchain Opportunity Analysis
Key Information About This Course:
Level: Beginner
100% online: start instantly and learn at the schedule
Flexible schedule and deadlines: Set and maintain flexible deadlines
Duration: Approx. 2 months to complete, suggested 12 hours/week.
Subtitles: English only
LEARNER CAREER OUTCOMES
40%
Started a new career after completing this specialization.
40%
Got a pay increase or promotion.
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Description
Blockchain technology is powering our future. As the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, open software platforms like Ethereum, and disruptive companies like Ripple, it’s too important to ignore.
In this revelatory book, Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son, blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, bring us a brilliantly researched, highly readable, and essential book about the technology driving the future of the economy.
Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolutionary protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure by maintaining a tamperproof public ledger of value. Though it’s best known as the technology that drives bitcoin and other digital currencies, it also has the potential to go far beyond currency, to record virtually everything of value to humankind, from birth and death certificates to insurance claims, land titles, and even votes.
Blockchain is also essential to understand if you’re an artist who wants to make a living off your art, a consumer who wants to know where that hamburger meat really came from, an immigrant who’s tired of paying big fees to send money home to your loved ones, or an entrepreneur looking for a new platform to build a business. And those examples are barely the tip of the iceberg.
As with major paradigm shifts that preceded it, blockchain technology will create winners and losers. This book shines a light on where it can lead us in the next decade and beyond.
