Preparing for the Crypto Currency Certification

Consortium’s Certified Bitcoin Professional

​(CBP) Exam


DATE: TBD (or on demand for groups of 20)
Learn how blockchain will help you in your commercial or government business! ​
Smart Contracts, Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
$199

DATE: TBD - $199

Presenter:
​Tom Plunkett, Author of the book “Smart Contracts and Initial Coin Offerings” being published 2019. 
 
This course will be a one-day intensive introduction to  Preparing for the Crypto Currency Certification Consortium’s Certified Bitcoin Professional ​(CBP) Exam.
 
Bitcoin, Crypto Currency, Blockchain, and related technologies are some of the hottest topics in the IT industry today.  Bitcoin is the most important crypto currency.  The Crypto Currency Certification Consortium’s Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) Exam is the most widely recognized certification exam for the Crypto Currency industry.  This course prepares students to become Certified Bitcoin Professionals.

Pre-requisites: None, but an interest in bitcoin and cryptography will be useful.
 
Course Outline- 
Chapter 1: Introduction to Bitcoin
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Money and Ledger-based Economics

1. History of Centralized Ledgers
2. Functions of Currency, Unit of Account, Store of Value, and Medium of Exchange
3. Distributed Consensus and Distributed Ledgers
4. History of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin White Paper
5. Price Derivation and the Price of Bitcoin

Chapter 3: Introduction to Cryptography

1. Cryptographic Terms and Definitions
2. Hash Functions
3. Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption
4. Digital Signatures and Asymmetric Keys

Chapter 4: Bitcoin Basics

1. Bitcoin Community, users, advocates, developers, businesses, and others
2. Bitcoin Addresses, Public Keys, and Private Keys
3. Bitcoin Transactions, Inputs, Outputs, and Transaction Fees
4. Bitcoin Blockchain Ledger
5. bitcoin the Unit, millitbit, satoshi, denominations, and symbols
6. Bitcoin the Network, nodes, and network attacks
7. Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) and the process for improving the network
8. Buying and Selling bitcoin, Exchanges, and Storing bitcoin
9. Blockchain Explorers and Tracing Payments
10. Unspent Transaction Outputs (UXTOs)

Chapter 5: Mining and Proof of Work

1. The purpose and function of Mining and Proof of work
2. Bitcoin Mining Algorithm, Difficulty Adjustment, Hashing Algorithm, Block Rewards
3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Mining Pools
4. Mining Hardware, CPU, GPU, and ASIC hardware
5. Security and Centralization, Potential Attacks

Chapter 6: Wallets, Clients, and Key Management

1. Wallet Types, Software, Web, Hardware, Paper, and others
2. Differences Between Bitcoin Lightweight and Full Clients
3. Benefits of Deterministic Wallets (BIP32)
4. Advantages of Passphrase Encrypted Wallets (BIP38)
5. Backups, Importing and Exporting of Private Keys with Wallets

Chapter 7: Bitcoin Commerce

1. Setting up Merchants to Accept Bitcoin Payments
2. Services Provided by Bitcoin Payment Processors
3. Benefits of Secure Payment Protocol (BIP70)

Chapter 8: Final Steps in Preparing for the Certified Bitcoin Professional Exam

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Tom Plunkett is an Author, ICO Advisor, Patent Attorney, and Software Expert. He is the author of a book on “Smart Contracts and Initial Coin Offerings” being published in 2019 and other books.  He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on topics related to Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Smart Contracts.  He has a B.A. and a J.D. from George Mason University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and has taken graduate courses in Cyber Security and Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.