Introduction to Blockchain Research Skills

This workshop is intended to provide a broad and general introduction to blockchain and other emerging decentralized technologies, followed by a number of exemplar research use cases from its many disciplinary pillars.

A “Decentralized Dance Party” being held by decentralists.

Objectives

• Establish a basic understanding of the blockchain data structure and affiliated concepts
• Navigate to view and discuss basic information from the two primary public blockchains, Bitcoin and Ethereum
• Understand what fields and disciplines are interrelated with the emerging multidisciplinary domain “cryptoeconomics”
• Explore real research, and research prompt questions, which contextualize this abstract topic in real-world terms

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