Tech Recruiting Foundations: 7 Recruiting for Blockchain

1. Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Digitization of Trust

• Introduction to blockchain recruitment
• Time for the digitization of trust
• Fiat currencies: The IOU's in your pocket
• How strong are our institutions?
• The birth of change

2. The Legacy of Centralized Systems

• Understanding centralized systems
• The power of centralized systems
• One November night in India
• Centralized databases and banking
• The beauty of decentralized systems
• The benefits of going p2p

3. Understanding Cryptography and Encryption

• What is cryptography?
• Early cryptography
• Cryptography in the world wars
• Public key cryptography
• David Chaum and blind signatures
• Cypherpunks and techno-socialism
• Nick Szabo and smart contracts
• Who are Satoshi Nakamoto?

4. Bitcoin and the Blockchain

• What Satoshi Nakamoto created
• The difference between bitcoin and blockchain
• The ledger: The core of bitcoin
• Lost bitcoins and expensive pizzas
• The open ledger
• Digital consensus
• Everyone is the banker
• Scarcity dictates the value
• What a cryptocurrency needs to achieve
• The problem of centralization
• The problem of the double spend

5. How Blockchain Works

• Diving into blockchain architecture
• How does the blockchain network work?
• Why 'block' and why 'chain'?
• Entering the blockchain system
• Bitcoin miners
• The anatomy of a block

6. Other Cryptocurrencies

• The top cryptocurrencies
• Ripple
• Litecoin and bitcoin cash
• Libra

7. Smart Contracts and Ethereum

• Key differences between Ethereum and bitcoin
• Smart contracts
• Recruiting Ethereum developers
• Smart contracts and IoT
• Advantages of smart contracts

8. Hyperledger and Private Blockchains

• What is Hyperledger?
• Hyperledger Fabric and private blockchain

9. Blockchain Disruption across Industries

• Blockchain in the financial sector
• Identity
• Internet of Things and supply chain

10. Strengths and Weaknesses of Blockchain

• The benefits of blockchain technology
• The downsides of blockchain
• Trust issues and dodgy links

11. Recruiting Blockchain Candidates

• Recruiting blockchain candidates
• Core blockchain developers and architects
• Cryptography
• Blockchain software developer