[Course] Bitcoin Infrastructure
Bitcoin Infrastructure is focused on providing students with a solid understanding of the role that nodes and node operators play in the construction of the network. In particular, it focuses on the incentives that drive enterprise operators to invest in scaling and infrastructure. Upon completion of this course, students will be awarded a certificate of completion.
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[eBook] A framework for ensuring a profitable and sustainable Bitcoin mining operation
The BSV Academy collaborated with Lars Jorgensen, Chief Operating Officer at TAAL Distributed Information Technologies to compile a framework of factors worth considering when you design a new mining operation, or scale your venture.
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[eBook] The BSV Blockchain as Infrastructure for the Data Economy
Learn how the BSV Blockchain helps your business and family to harness the data economy in a profitable and sustainable way.
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[eBook] The BSV Blockchain for Enterprise Blockchain
This eBook explains how the BSV Blockchain has returned to the original Bitcoin protocol to deliver a global, enterprise-level blockchain while others have failed.
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How your business gains by migrating your data system onto blockchain
'Why would I use this public platform that relies on an infrastructure I don't have control over?’
‘Why would I use a blockchain platform if there are tried and tested data management platforms available?’
‘Why would I choose blockchain if millions of people are using SQL databases?’
‘Why would I go to all the effort of changing the architecture of my system to leverage blockchain if I can get a traditional model up and running in no time at all?’
To tackle these questions, let’s take a look at what architecture and data management processes look like when done on blockchain.
Which Bitcoin infrastructure course is best for me?
If Bitcoin’s infrastructure falls within the purview of your job role or you are one of the enterprise operators who spend large sums of money to build and operate mining infrastructure, this stream will help you position yourself for success.
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Working blockchain gives you the edge in Bitcoin mining and business
A working blockchain lets you as Bitcoin miner or user save on bandwidth while ensuring you’ve got all the info you need at your fingertips.
Read MoreHow to set up a profitable and sustainable Bitcoin mining operation
Are you tasked with designing, building, implementing and maintaining an enterprise-level Bitcoin mining infrastructure?
If so, everything from your choice and management of Bitcoin hardware like Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASICs miners) and Bitcoin mining software to your hosting service provider, and the location-specific Internet infrastructure, climate and geopolitics will affect your ultimate success.
It’s true that setting up a profitable and sustainable mining operation isn’t easy - even for the world’s top Bitcoin transaction processors with access to enterprise-level budgets.
6 steps to running the Bitcoin network
In section five of the Bitcoin white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto defines a set of instructions that describe the optimal behaviours that a node participating on the network should exhibit.
These nodes are characterised by their work of producing valid blocks, which they then distribute to other nodes and validating their blocks in return. Without nodes performing these tasks, the network will not function.
Nodes take on these important tasks by collating, validating and recording all interactions occurring on the Bitcoin network in real time.
The difference between a Bitcoin node and a miner
Within the realm of Bitcoin infrastructure, there is confusion around the terms miner and node. While they are one and the same, a clear distinction must be made between running the Bitcoin node software and operating a node.
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Introduction to Bitcoin Infrastructure course feedback from Chemical Engineer Patrick Mockridge
'I'd recommend the Intro to Infrastructure course to people in the oil industry who want to get a better understanding of what Bitcoin's for. But I think it's a bit highly technical for a general audience.'
Read MoreFAQ - Introduction to Bitcoin infrastructure course
The introduction to Bitcoin Infrastructure course is focused on providing students with a solid understanding of the role that nodes and node operators play in the construction of the network. In particular it will focus on the incentives that drive enterprise operators to spend large sums of money to build and operate their infrastructure.
To give you insight into the course, this blog offers you a compilation of insightful questions from our Discord channel - with answers provided by the very individuals who create the course material.
Nakamoto consensus: ‘be thankful for orphans!’
If the term ‘orphan’ comes up in everyday life, it comes with an implication of misfortune, and perhaps that's why there has been some misunderstanding about Bitcoin’s orphan blocks as a feature which incentivises performance within the Bitcoin system.
Read MoreHow Bitcoin solves the double-spending problem of the digital economy
The concept of electronic cash isn't new and has been attempted under names like E-Cash, Liberty Reserve, Digicash and others.
And yet, all these projects ran into the same problem: solving the double-spend problem without introducing a trusted third party akin to the existing financial system.
So, what is this double-spending problem and how does Bitcoin solve it?
In this blog, Bitcoin SV Academy curriculum content contributor, Brendan Lee tells you what you need to know.
