Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
Overview
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- Participant will have in-depth understanding of the realities of Cryptocurrency
- The details of Blockchain technology, and an effective strategy for including Cryptocurrency into investment plans
Duration
2 Days
Pre-Requisites
Basic knowledge about investing & trading.
Course Outline
- Define Bitcoin and understand its popularity as a currency.
- Discuss the methodology behind the transacting with Bitcoin
- Gain a deep understanding of the definition of currency and the critical importance of a shared common belief behind a unit of currency
- Growth analysis of centralized intermediaries which facilitate dollar transactions using cash-alternative methodologies and the role in currency
- Complete understanding of why cryptocurrency and bitcoin is used as a cash-alternative method?
- How Bitcoin derives its potential value in the current market?
- Analyse the problems that a decentralized currency must solve in order to be successful
- How Bitcoin meets these challenges using cryptology and blockchain technology?
- How Bitcoin utilizes digital signatures in their transactions to ensure privacy for individuals?
- Examine how blockchain technology employs Hash Functions to detect tampering attempts.
- Participants will explore the creation & concept of Distributed Consensus Protocol & how Proof of Work incentivizes honest trading & stable currency creation
- Participants will examin Cryptocurrency as an asset class, & dive deeper into whether Cryptocurrency has a place in individual investment portfolios
- Through examining the theory & data perspective of traditional finance participant will understand the risks & returns on Bitcoin & its place in a more stable & predictable portfolio
- Participants will also be able to learn about the capital Asset Pricing Model, & key concepts of Modern Portfolio Theory such as Tangency Portfolio & the Sharp Ratio
- Participants will be calculating and specifying both Beta & Alpha of Bitcoins
- Participant will be able to accurately measure the systematic risk the investor takes in creating a portfolio with Bitcoin.
- By the end of this module, Participant will be able to estimate & analyse the values of Beta & Alpha in Cryptocurrency, & effectively optimize utility in incorporating Cryptocurrency as an asset for your portfolio
- Participants will explore the Blockchain Ecosystem & the numerous use cases for Blockchain in different industries
- Through examination of the key attributes of Blockchain, Participant will be able to discover how Blockchain is built
- Participant will learn the differences between Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, and the two interoperability’s of Blockchain.
- Through analysing the different types of crypto finance, Participants will also explore the different use cases of Blockchain in business, gaming, & investing
- Participant will have a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of Blockchain and also be able to utilize Blockchain in many different contexts, & assess how Blockchain will affect both business and society in the future.