blockchain101-scem

Blockchain workshop @ SCEM

Find the speaker deck slides here

Agenda

Session 1

• Blockchain background and basics

• Basics of decentralization using Distributed Ledger Technology

• Bitcoin consensus algorithm and transactions

Session 2

• Smart contract basics

• Turing complete scripting language to create smart contracts

• Basics of Ethereum

• Setting up Ethereum development environment

• Create and deploy a "Hello World" smart contract

• Create, test and deploy a Proof of Ownership application.

Pre requisites

• Recommended to use a system of 4 GB RAM (Don't worry, we can still make it work).

• Although you can work on any platform (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), a Debian based operating system (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali) is preferred. You can also install a docker container for Ubuntu 16.04 if you are comfortable with Linux (Optional).

  $ docker pull ubuntu
  $ docker run ubuntu:16.04 grep -v '^#' /etc/apt/sources.list
  $ docker run -it ubuntu:16.04 /bin/bash
  
  

  Run this inside the docker container:

  $ apt-get install software-properties-common

• Install a python interpreter >= 3.5.

• It would be great if you also setup a latest version of nodejs and npm. Here is a install guide for Ubuntu system.