Course Overview

Hi everyone, my name is Jan-Erik Sandberg, and welcome to my course, IOTA Fundamentals. I'm currently working as a manager for some high-performance development teams at Q-FREE. I'm also the founder of Blockchain Rebels. The cryptocurrency revolution is considered to be the next big thing after the invention of the internet. There's a huge ongoing development in this field now. It all started with the Bitcoin blockchain, and then a lot of similar technologies like Ethereum arose. But when blockchain became massive, the technology also began to face some serious issues. IOTA is a different take on many of the same revolutionary ideas that were brought forward with blockchain. IOTA has laid forward a probable solution to the enormous problems that traditional cryptocurrencies and technologies are facing with declining performance, increasing need for expensive and wasteful computing resources, and thus increasing cost of transactions. I like to think of Bitcoin as the T-Ford that got a whole new industry started, Ethereum as the Toyota Corolla that got broad adoption and usage, and lastly the IOTA as the test lab that modernized the way we think about an already-existing idea. By the end of this practical course, you will have a deep understanding of the IOTA concepts, and you'll even be able to develop your own applications using IOTA. I hope you'll join me in this exciting journey of learning this very promising technology with IOTA Fundamentals here at Pluralsight.