Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Blockchain Teaching Pedagogy: The CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium and Blockchain Training Conference

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We speak with Andreas Antonopoulos, author of Mastering Bitcoin, The Internet of Money, and Mastering Ethereum, and also board member at the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium, known as C4. C4 will be hosting the Blockchain Training Conference in Denver, Colorado at the end of August. In this conversation, we learn about the conference, how Andreas thinks about blockchain teaching pedagogy, and the certifications that C4 is offering now: the Certified Bitcoin Professional (or CBP) certification and the CryptoCurrency Security Standard (or CCSS) certification. We learn all about the certifications and what they allow the holder to do. Always a pleasure to talk with Andreas. If you enjoyed this one, please rate and review us on iTunes. It would help us out a lot. Thanks for listening to the episode.

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We are going to be at this conference in August, so reach out if you will be there as well. Would love to meet in meatspace.

Topics

• How they decided to do the Blockchain Training conference
• What a Blockchain Training conference is
• What are they focusing more on 2019 conference versus 2016 conference
• How they produce keys
• Talking about the workshops
• How they figured out the programming
• Pedagogical philosphy
• On certifications
• Certified Bitcoin Professional
• CryptoCurrency Security Standard
• What do the certifications get you
• Topics they would have liked to see
• On their long term goals

Links

Blockchain training conf: https://blockchaintraining.org/schedule/ Certification Information: https://cryptoconsortium.org/ Andreas Antonopoulos twitter: https://twitter.com/aantonop Our last Podcast with Andreas: http://quantlayer.libsyn.com/andreas-m-antonopoulos-and-the-state-of-cryptocurrency-ten-years-in Mastering Bitcoin: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain-ebook/dp/B071K7FCD4/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?crid=ELNFUIRYNC1D&keywords=andrea%27s+antonopoulos&qid=1565103889&s=gateway&sprefix=andrea%27s+antonopoulos%2Caps%2C370&sr=8-1-fkmr0 The Internet of Money: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Money-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos-ebook/dp/B01L9WM0H8/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?crid=ELNFUIRYNC1D&keywords=andrea%27s+antonopoulos&qid=1565103889&s=gateway&sprefix=andrea%27s+antonopoulos%2Caps%2C370&sr=8-2-fkmr0 The Internet of Money Volume 2: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Money-Two-Andreas-Antonopoulos-ebook/dp/B075VB7LVG/ref=sr_1_2?crid=ELNFUIRYNC1D&keywords=andrea%27s+antonopoulos&qid=1565103889&s=gateway&sprefix=andrea%27s+antonopoulos%2Caps%2C370&sr=8-2 Mastering Ethereum: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Ethereum-Building-Smart-Contracts-ebook/dp/B07KGLNL76/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=mastering+ethereum&qid=1565103907&s=gateway&sr=8-3