{"id":108,"date":"2025-03-03T16:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2025-03-30T20:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:50:37","slug":"session-1-introduction-to-blockchains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/session-1-introduction-to-blockchains\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 1: Introduction to Blockchains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get to know each other &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/m88hHtDLkDwQCznG7\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/m88hHtDLkDwQCznG7<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please register here: <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/wp-login.php?action=register\">https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/wp-login.php?action=register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Decentralized-Futures-Session-1.pdf\">PDF presentation<\/a> &#8211; Introduction to Blockchain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Required viewing<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1 &#8211; The Genesis of Bitcoin \u2013 11 min.<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-001-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-001-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>2 &#8211; Declaration of War \u2013 12 min.<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-002-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-bitcoin-story\/\">https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-002-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-bitcoin-story\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>3 &#8211; <\/strong><strong>Impenetrable Citadel \u2013 13 min.<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-003-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/\">https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-003-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>4 &#8211; Money, Money, Money \u2013 10 min.<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-004-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/\">https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-004-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>5 &#8211; Against Goliath \u2013 11 min.<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-005-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/\">https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-005-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>6 &#8211; Apocalypse Empire \u2013 14 min.<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-006-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/\">https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-006-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Required reading<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoin.org\/bitcoin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bitcoin.org\/bitcoin.pdf<\/a>, 2008<br \/>Read the first pages or as much as you can understand)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Food for brain<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is a hash function<\/strong> &#8211; This SHA256 online tool helps you calculate hashes from strings. You can input UTF-8, UTF-16, Hex, Base64, or other encodings. It also supports HMAC. <a href=\"https:\/\/emn178.github.io\/online-tools\/sha256.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/emn178.github.io\/online-tools\/sha256.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin Information &amp; Resources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lopp.net\/bitcoin-information.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.lopp.net\/bitcoin-information.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CoinMarketCap <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com<\/a> &#8211; 271 <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/cryptocurrency-category\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">types of token<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Cypherpunk&#8217;s Manifesto &#8211; by Eric Hughes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activism.net\/cypherpunk\/manifesto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.activism.net\/cypherpunk\/manifesto.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session 1 Let&#8217;s get to know each other &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/forms.gle\/m88hHtDLkDwQCznG7 Please register here: https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/wp-login.php?action=register PDF presentation &#8211; Introduction to Blockchain &nbsp; Required viewing 1 &#8211; The Genesis of Bitcoin \u2013 11 min.https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-001-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/ 2 &#8211; Declaration of War \u2013 12 min.https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-002-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-bitcoin-story\/ 3 &#8211; Impenetrable Citadel \u2013 13 min.https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-003-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/ 4 &#8211; Money, Money, Money \u2013 10 min.https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/en\/videos\/097372-004-A\/the-satoshi-mystery-the-story-of-bitcoin\/ 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introduction-to-blockchains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-x.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}