3 hours to teach Blockain and Cryptocurrencies

by lodart on 12/14/2017, 3:15 PM with 7 comments

Hi ! I'm a French student in 5th year of Engineering school (INSA Rennes), and I have to present Blockain & Cryptocurrencies to my schoolmates in 3 hours. I can divide this time as I want, for example : 1 hour lecture, 2 hours practicals.

I have some ideas of what to say during the lecture. HN was really helpful to find articles and videos (especially https://anders.com/blockchain/) but now I'm more struggling to find what to do during the practicals. If it is possible, I'd like to create a tiny currency, just for exercise, so that they could actually play with it, study the blockchain etc.

Do you have any idea how to do that, or do you have any other good idea ?

Thank you :)

  • by quickthrower2 on 12/14/2017, 11:24 PM

    How about having some students be the nodes

    Their job is to write down the transactions on a piece of paper.

    Then have some students be miners.

    They write down unconfirmed transactions and roll 2 dice. If they get a pair of 1's they can create a block and give it to the node students to copy. (Could use a photocopier to speed things up)

    Then have some students be users creating transactions and such like.

  • by kleer001 on 12/14/2017, 6:54 PM

    No one is going to (or should) do your homework for you.

  • by miguelrochefort on 12/15/2017, 2:39 AM

    Have them invent it.