Bitcoin LARP 1
Event Details (RSVP)
Overview
Created by Blockstream hacker + Base58 founder @niftynei in 2021, the World Famous Bitcoin LARP (Live Action Role Play) is a fun, hands-on ~2-hour workshop for bitcoiners of all ages and experience. The game has been played at bitcoin conferences and meetups world-wide, and is a fantastic yet challenging way to really understand what is happening on the bitcoin network.
What is a bitcoin node? What does it do? How do transactions flow through the network and get mined? Come participate in this workshop, and we'll walk through these answers together.
Although this workshop is less focused on why you should care about Bitcoin in the first place, it'll be a great way to introduce friends and family to how it actually works in an approachable way.
Learning Outcomes
- Inspecting the contents of a Bitcoin Core node
- Validating a bitcoin transaction
- Writing a bitcoin transaction
- Building a peer-to-peer network
- Exchanging messages over a peer-to-peer network
- Building block templates
- Mining for new blocks
- Validating bitcoin blocks
Class Pre-requisites
- There’s nothing to know ahead of time. This activity is good for audiences of all ages, as long as you can read, write, and do some basic arithmetic.
- No prior knowledge of bitcoin or running a node is required, but highly recommended to get the most out of this workshop.
- Feel free to bring some snacks/drinks/or other merch to “sell” to participants for in-game bitcoin! We will provide all other necessary materials to play the game.
