UZH- University of Zürich

Summary:
This online summer school program has given me a complete immersion into the topic of Blockchain from world-leading experts and practitioners in the field. Blockchain-based systems, with cryptocurrencies as the most prominent example, have disrupted and reshaped the way we now think about digital finance and other similar applications, such as supply chains. Blockchain and related technologies allow to store sequential, trustful information without enforced consensus by central authorities or trustees.

For a full understanding of Blockchain, with all its implications and potential for application in practice, it is absolutely crucial to look at it from a multidisciplinary perspective. This is exactly what the UZH Blockchain Center has offered during the course: understanding the three key pillars of blockchain systems, namely the technology, the economics and the legal aspects behind it. Building on this, I have explored other fields of application, such as forensics and data analytics.

But most importantly, the program was highly interactive, with both theory and hands-on practice sessions offered by blockchain experts from Switzerland, Austria, China, Germany, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom!