This curriculum has an overall structure which presents multiple facets of how Bitcoin might serve organizational leaders to a depth suitable for senior professionals.
📊 Beginning in module 4, the curriculum presents considerations that focus on the rise of Bitcoin from an industry vertical perspective, and those that focus on widely used internal organizational functions.
🎯 A one line summary objective for the curriculum would be:
“To provide the basis for all organizations to understand why they need to add The Rise of Bitcoin to their Risk Registers.”
| Module | Number | Subtopic Title | Status | Preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Impact on The Risk Function | 1 | – | Final ✅ | Preview |
| Dispelling Misconceptions | 2.1 | Bitcoin has no intrinsic value | Final ✅ | Preview |
| 2.2 | Bitcoin and energy | Final ✅ | Preview | |
| 2.3 | Too slow to be global money | Final ✅ | Preview | |
| 2.4 | There’s no innovation happening in Bitcoin | Final ✅ | Preview | |
| 2.5 | Governments will ban it | Final ✅ | Preview | |
| 2.6 | There are thousands of other coins, so claims to scarcity/fixed supply are false | Draft | – | |
| 2.7 | It’s not decentralised (ownership, nodes, mining) | Draft | – | |
| 2.8 | Nobody uses it as a MoE, so it can’t be money | Draft | – | |
| 2.9 | CBDCs will obviate Bitcoin | Draft | – | |
| 2.10 | Bitcoin will be overtaken (like Facebook v MySpace) | Draft | – | |
| An Overnight Sensation, 40 Years In The Making | 3.1 | 1974 Cerf and Kahn – Packet Network Intercommunication Protocol TCP/IP | Draft | – |
| 3.2 | 1980 Ralph Merkle – Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems | Draft | – | |
| 3.3 | 1989 Digicash | Draft | – | |
| 3.4 | 1997 Adam Back – DDoS counter-measure with Proof of Work – Hashcash | Draft | – | |
| 3.5 | 2001 Bram Cohen – BitTorrent | Draft | – | |
| 3.6 | 2004 Hal Finney – Reusable Proofs of Work | Draft | – | |
| 3.7 | 2008 Bitcoin | Draft | – | |
| Impact on Industry Verticals | 4.1 | Energy (efficiency, transition, grid management) and ESG | Draft | – |
| 4.2 | Investment management | Draft | – | |
| 4.3 | Banking and payments | Draft | – | |
| 4.4 | Technology (DDoS, FOSS, P2P) | Draft | – | |
| 4.5 | Professional Services | Final ✅ | Preview | |
| 4.6 | Government | Final ✅ | Preview | |
| 4.7 | Charity / Not for Profit | Draft | – | |
| Impact on Internal Functions | 5.1 | IT | Draft | – |
| 5.2 | Treasury Management | Draft | – | |
| Adopting Bitcoin | 6.1 | Bitcoin scarcity and preventing double spend | Draft | – |
| 6.2 | Bitcoin as 'Internet of Value' versus HTTP, SMTP, FTP. and Adoption Cycle | Draft | – | |
| Bitcoin's Possible Future | 7.1 | The Future of Bitcoin as Global Treasury Reserve Asset (Companies, Governments/Municipals, Central Banks) | Draft | – |
| 7.2 | Building the renewable energy grid | Draft | – | |
| 7.3 | Banking the un(der)banked | Draft | – | |
| 7.4 | Convergence of Bitcoin and AI | Draft | – | |
| The Open Ledger – Analyzing the Bitcoin Economy | 8 | – | Draft | – |
Do you have expertise in other industries or departments you would like to see added to the curriculum?
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