Plan ₿ summer school is an opportunity for those interested in bitcoin and business to learn the ins and outs of the ecosystem and developing real world solutions.
Plan ₿ summer school is an opportunity for those interested in bitcoin and business to learn the ins and outs of the ecosystem and developing real world solutions.
- Plan ₿ summer school begins July 3-16 and seeks to teach students the fundamentals of Bitcoin and business.
- Classes taught by industry experts will be held in Lugano, Switzerland.
- Students attending will participate in a pitch competition which will see the winners take home up to $5,000 for a winning pitch.
Plan ₿ summer school, a cohort-style course teaching students the challenges of business as it relates to regulatory and technological implications facing the Bitcoin ecosystem, is in session from July 3-16, per an announcement[1].
The class will take place in Lugano, Switzerland. Students will learn about the Bitcoin protocol, Lightning Network as a layer 2 solution, stablecoins, consensus mechanism used by cryptocurrencies, and the fundamentals of the space.
Experts will demonstrate the complexities of smart contracts and their operability within Bitcoin while going through real-world use cases and applications. Students will also gain knowledge as it relates to anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, on-chain analytics, and gain a deeper comprehension of cyber security, among other subject material.
Teachers of the course will present students with real-world problems in need of a solution. At the end of the two-week course, students will participate at a group level to pitch an idea to a problem presented by the teachers. A jury of experts in the space will preside over the outcome from the pitch competition and prizes will be awarded to the top three teams.
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