P2P Essentials: Beyond Blockchain Technologies

What you’ll learn
Decentralization and P2P Basics
Hashes and Merkle Trees
Blocks and Blockchain technologies
Proof-of-work and consensus mechanisms
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
What is Ethereum
What is a Smart Contract
Non Fungible Tokens: Art and Real Estate in the Blockchain
Decentraland, blockchain-powered virtual worlds and the metaverse.
How a dApp works
DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) and Aragon
How to browse and create content in the Decentralized Web
What is IPFS
What is the Hypercore Protocol
How to create your own P2P website with the Hypercore Protocol
Sustainability and Social Implications of Decentralized Technologies
Social Implications and Sustainability of P2P Technologies

Description
In this course, you will get a full understanding of decentralization and the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) web.

We will start explaining how blockchain technology works, and how Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies gave arise to decentralized finance.

We will delve into Non Fungible Tokens, and we will focus on specific actual examples to show you how the blockchain has been used to monetize art and even create a digital replicate of the Real Estate industry.

We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of specific distributed technologies and dig into different protocols beyond blockchains, such as Holochain, IPFS or Hypercore. You will learn to browse the decentralized web and publish your own content using these procotols and specific browsers. You will experience the Metaverse and its fascinating game-changing potential.

At the end of the course, you will be able to talk confidently about what is Ethereum, what is a Smart Contract, what is Web3, and how a dApp works. You even will be able to create your own P2P website by using the Hypercore Protocol without the need for any initial technical knowledge, and to experience a decentralized virtual world through an avatar in Decentraland.

We will navigate the implications of distributed ledgers and smart contracts for decision-making, exploring how blockchains and off-chain voting technologies can bring governance to digital communities. This will lead us to talk about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

Before finishing the course, we will discuss the social implications of these technologies and their sustainability, distinguishing in which context they should be used.

You will end up with a basic understanding of P2P Essentials, required building blocks to be part of a decentralized future.

Who this course is for:
Entrepreneurs
Software developers
Activists
Educators
College Students
Professionals of IT, Law or Finance
Researchers
General public
Companies interested in blockchain, decentralized technologies and the metaverse