Fintech 376: Metacoin Platforms (Altcoins)

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Course Highlights

  • The metacoins and altcoins are built on the blockchain shared ledger. The underlying technology is blockchain, the currencies on top of this layer are but the users perceive. Metacoins are merely the colors, shapes and brands of the mining out from blockchains
  • The declinations from the cryptocurrencies and blockchains are very diversified and some have known glorious times and other less glorious ones. The challenge is to have a clean ethical market. Remember: it is self policed

Goals

  • Cryptocurrencies answer to no sovereign authority. We hear on the daily news about all the troubles we are having with national sovereign authorities and with groups of countries managing one currency: Euro or African CFA; imagine the damage of a currency that is not managed by any sovereign regulator

Structure

  • One-half day of several separate unrelated courses

Target Audience

  • Fintech entrepreneurs, economics scholars, lawmakers, bankers, analysts