SI 486I Spring 2022 / Labs

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Lab 8: Presentation practice

Today’s lab is all about how to give an effective presentation.

Mostly, you will be asked (with a partner) to produce a five-minute presentation addressing one of these two questions:

  1. How does the consensus protocol in Bitcoin work?
  2. What does it mean to “own” and “spend” a Bitcoin?

These are questions you should already have a very good understanding of yourself. So you shouldn’t really need to do much research here - the goal instead is to focus on how you would effectively convey this to someone else.

Think of your target audience as another CS or IT upperclass who is not taking this course and doesn’t necessarily know anything about cryptocurrency.