# ِDash Workshop Program slide: https://hackmd.io/hW1cn8kwQJqYazZt-rG4UQ --- ## Day 1 - **What is Money?** * History of Money - A store of value and a medium of exchange in transactions * Characteristics of Money - Durability - Portability - Divisibility - Fungibility - Limited Supply - Acceptability * Relation of Trust and Money - Trust is vital for limited supply and acceptability - Blockchain as a cure for 2008 financial crisis * What Gives Money Value? - Acceptance gives money value - **Introduction to Cryptocurrency** * Vision of Decentralization * Histoy of Bitcoin as the First Cryptocurrency * A High-level Overview of Bitcoin - Distributed consensus - Proof of work * Bitcoin is not Perfect - Scalability - Lack of self-sustainable decentralized governance - No developer funding model - Privacy - No instant payment - **Introduction to Cryptography** * How to Prove You Are the Owner of the Coins? * What is the Puzzle for Miners to Solve? * Public Key Cryptography - Sending letter with villain post man - One key held privately, locks everywhere * Digital Signature - **A Close Look at Dash** * History of Dash * Dash Has All Characteristics of Money * Dash Offers Money as a Service * Comparing Dash with Bitcoin * Getting Your First Dash * Elements of Dash - Blockchain - Network - Blocks - Transactions - Addresses and private keyes * Dash Mining - Why we need Miners? - Mining process - Mining hardware - Mining pool - Energy consumptions and ecology * Dash as a DAO * Dash Masternodes * Dash Treasury * Dash Governance * Dash Specific Features - InstantSend - PrivateSend - **Blockchain, Beyond the Financial Services** * Crowd funding and ICOs * Smart Contracts and DApps * Government --- ## Day 2 - **What is Next for Dash?** * Dash Evolution * Challenges * Future - **Working with Dash Wallets** * Introducing Dash Core Wallet * Development on Testnet, Devnet and Regtest Mode * Making Different Transactions with Dash Mobile and Desktop Wallets on the Testnet - **Mining Dash** * Joining a Mining Pool * CPU Minning * GPU Mining * ASIC Mining - **More Exersices** * Making Multisig Transactions * Putting the Hash of a File on the Dash Blockchain