How To Make Blockchain As Easy As Riding A Bike – zoe nauman
How do you get into Blockchain, when it seems you need to be brighter than Albert Einstein to understand it?
One man has come up with the answer.
And it’s set to revolutionize learning this often complex and misunderstood field, as we know it.
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Aziz Al-Yaqout has devised an online learning platform, which he says makes learning the technology as “easy as riding a bike.”
“Everyone has the right to learn how Blockchain works. A lot of people are frightened of it and think it’s too difficult to understand. I intend to change that. It can actually be as easy a riding a bike. You’ve just got to know where to start.”
And people are keen. When Aziz soft-launched his course with no advertising, he had 24,000 visitors interested in taking him up on his offer.
As it stands, the U.S. is way behind when it comes to getting to grips with Blockchain.
China, South Korea, and Dubai are embracing technology in many areas of society and winning.
In November last year, Chinese leader Xi Jinping gave a rousing speech telling Chinese enterprises to ‘seize the opportunity’ and get ahead by using Blockchain technology.
For people wanting to understand how this whole ‘virtual transaction’ world works, it can often seem daunting.
It’s uncharted territory with many getting ripped off through no fault of their own.
There are stories of extortion and threats for Bitcoin, which are usually carried out via email lists and claims of hacking of personal information.
Miami based Aziz, 25, saw the writing on the wall back in 2013.
He saw friends and acquaintances at the University of Miami where he was studying for a Masters were investing small sums such as $10,000USD into Blockchain, and just a few years later had portfolios worth millions.
Aziz, who is originally from Kuwait, set about learning everything he could about the field.
And was soon being recognized as a leading authority in Florida Blockchain circles and beyond.
“What kept coming up time and again was the complexity of learning how Blockchain works. And it doesn’t have to be that way,” he says. I knew there was a gap in the market.
His research led Aziz creating the online training platform Knowmatix. An easy to use training course: ‘Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Fundamentals, ‘ which makes Blockchain and Cryptocurrency as easy as one, two, three.
With a combination of workshops, in-person instruction, and easy to understand modules, Aziz is planning to take this technology to the masses.
He points out there is a considerable gap and demand for Blockchain engineers and Blockchain professionals: “This gap will just continue to grow as time goes on because this technology is still in its infancy.”
While it’s currently tough to know the exact number of people in the world that are Blockchain technology, estimates put it around 20 to 25 million of the global population. That’s less than 0.5% of the world’s population.
Aziz sees this as potentially a booming job field: “As that grows and as these companies in the U.S. and Canada start using this Blockchain technology more and utilizing these patents that they have filed, there’s going to be a huge gap as far as employees go. If you can get involved now, you will be ahead of the curve.”
Right now, Blockchain learning courses are around $4000USD.
The entrepreneur says this is too high: “My course can be used as a launching pad to get them to the industry and to take other courses because there’s a lot of different things you can learn about this.
“You can learn about the technology side, you can learn about the programming side, the trading, some people do art on it, and some people use it for the supply chain.
“Everyone needs and deserves the chance to learn this.”
Currently, Blockchain technology is being used in some areas in the U.S.
Walmart uses it to track products, as does IBM.
MasterCard has patents in it and Bank of America.
But while there are a lot of patents, not many companies are actively using it.
Aziz believes this is because the industry cannot make the jump through a lack of knowledge.
“It took me a year to come up with the information,” he says. “I wanted to curate it in a way that’s understandable to people who have no idea about what this industry is.”
He added: “Back in 2013, there were a lot of people that are into this whole Blockchain technology and the Cryptocurrency space.
“I had friends who started out investing $10,000, $15,000 into Blockchain, and by the end of 2017 when Bitcoin went up, they all had hundreds of thousands of portfolios, some over a million. “That’s what got me interested in the space, it’s the technology aspect and also the financial issue.”
Aziz is self-taught. And thanks to his knowledge, he is now very wealthy on the back of what he knows.
“I started researching this on my own,” he says. “And I developed a deep understanding of the technology and what the potential for it is
“I thought: ‘What this industry is missing is a one-stop educational platform to educate people about what this technology is because it’s only ten years old, Blockchain technology. There isn’t anyone centralized source of information to learn about this.”
So far, Aziz has done test runs of his course, and the response has been good.
When Knowmatix launched a free download with no paid advertising, they had 24,000 visitors.
He said: “I wanted to write out this course that would introduce people and teach them the basics.
“I take people specifically through setting up an account, linking your bank account, and buying the leading Cryptocurrencies from that exchange. Then we look at how to send and receive Cryptocurrency, storing it, and how to use crypto-wallets.
“Then they look at how to access these secondary exchanges to buy these Altcoins, which have a higher potential of return on investment.”
Aziz says he is all too aware people are getting scammed in this new ‘Wild West’ style frontier.
Because they don’t understand how Blockchain technology works: “Unfortunately there is misuse in this industry, and people get taken advantage of. If they are new and don’t understand, they can get tricked and scammed out of their money.
“I want to put a stop to that.”
Knowmatix online course plans to launch in Spring/Summer 2020. The course will retail at $400USD. It will be available to students globally. Check out www.knowmatix.com for more information.
Published at Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:43:56 +0000
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