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The Blockchain Institute Developer Bootcamp provides students with a simple framework of a web store to help them explore how blockchain technology can be used to increase security and accountability in digital product development.
Workshop 2 will help you set up your own web store, which we'll use in each of the following lessons to integrate the additional functionality taught in each workshop. In order to keep things clean, it's recommended that you build the solution in a separate directory from the workshop files.
Our introductory workshop provides an overview of the basic operation of a local Bitcoin node, and the configuration of addresses, transaction creation, and confirmation. This lab uses the RegTest Bitcoin mode, which provides instant confirmations for local transactions for testing purposes. No need to download the whole blockchain - get started with Bitcoin today!
Once you've got the basics of operating a node worked out, we'll help you connect it to a sample web store. This lesson also covers how to use Ethereum via the Infura API, and how to use a hierarchical deterministic wallet to generate new keypairs for each transaction.
While crypto payments are substantially faster than traditional wire transfers, they're still a bit slow for many consumer applications. One alternative is the Bitcoin Lightning network. In this session we'll explore how the network can be used to send Bitcoin payments nearly instantly, and help you set up a web store to do process these payments.
Private blockchains allow businesses and individuals to share sensitive data with a high degree of accountability. In this workshop we will help you build a hyperledger supply chain, and connect it to your web store so that you can pay your suppliers automatically with Bitcoin Lightning payments.
The final session of our bootcamp explores how to use Ethereum and other Web3 services to build decentralization applications and technology. In this lesson, we'll help you integrate uPort identity verification to support your web store and provide additional functionality based on the identity of your customer.