This document announces a book club discussing blockchain technology and its applications. It will take place over 6 weeks from June to July 2016 using Google Hangouts. Participants are encouraged to join online communities on Google+ and Flickr to discuss topics like Bitcoin, blockchain basics, and blockchain's role in education. The document provides information on hashtags and standards from ISTE relevant to computer science and technology facilitation. It also contains introductory information on blockchain, including what determines a currency's value, examples of virtual currencies, and basic explanations of Bitcoin and how blockchains work.

1. Blockchain Revolution
June 1 - July 30

2. BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION
BOOK CLUB

3. Games & Simulations Network

4. Inevitable Instructors

5. If you have not already, Please
Join G+ Community at
http://bit.ly/metagamebookplus
Post an intro and tell us why your curiosity is
piqued.

6. Take a look at our introduction page

7. Format
Week 1 - 3 ( June 1 - June 21 )
Bitcoin & Blockchain Basics
Google Hangouts on Wednesday
Week 4 - 6 ( July 6 - July 30 )
Blockchain & Education
Google Hangouts on Wednesday

8. Tweet it out!

9. Go ahead and use the following
Hashtags
#metagame
#blockchain
#iste16
#cbe

10. If you have not already, Please
Join our Flickr site at
https://www.flickr.com/groups/gsniste14

11. ISTE Administrator Standards
2. Digital Age Learning Culture
e. Promote and participate in local, national, and global learning communities that
stimulate innovation, creativity, and digital age collaboration.
3. Excellence in Professional Practice
b. Facilitate and participate in learning communities than stimulate, nurture and
support administrators, faculty and staff in the study and use of technology.
d. Stay abreast of educational research and emerging trends regarding effective use of
technology and encourage evaluation of new technologies for their potential to
improve student learning.

12. ISTE Computer Science Educators
1. Knowledge of Content
d.Demonstrate an understanding of the role computer science
plays and its impact in the modern world
ii. Analyze the contributions of computer science to current and
future innovations in sciences, humanities, the arts and
commerce.

13. What is currency?
Fiat Currency
Tied to creditworthiness of government
Represents Stored Value
Defined Denominations (1, 5, 10, 20, etc)
Accepted unit of exchange

14. Virtual Currency
Digital representations of value issued by
private developers and denominated in their
own unit of account.
Source: He, D., Habermeier, K., Leckow, R., Haksar, V., Almeida, Y., Kashima,
M., Kyriakos-Saad, N., Oura, H., Sedik, T.S., Stetsenko, N., and Verdugo-
Yepes, C. (January 2016) Virtual Currencies and Beyond: Initial
Considerations, IMF Staff Discussion Note, SDN/16/03 Retrieved on May 31,
2016 at: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2016/sdn1603.pdf

15. Source: He, D., et al. (January 2016) Virtual Currencies and Beyond: Initial
Considerations, IMF Staff Discussion Note, SDN/16/03, Pg 8. Retrieved on May 31,
2016 at: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2016/sdn1603.pdf

16. Second Life

17. Second Life

18. Second Life

19. World of Warcraft
Denominations:
Gold, Silver, Copper
Now Convertible
WoW Tokens
$20 buys you variable rate of
gold
Can use game gold to pay for
subscription

20. Pay Pal
Digital Currency
Requires user to tie account to a bank account and
transfer money to PayPal account
PayPal acts as intermediary and removed personal
information from transaction

21. What determines value of a currency?
Demand
Perception/ Belief
Trust

22. God Protocols
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/msc.html

23. What is Bitcoin?
Phanteks PH-F140HP/TS
Distributed

24. What is Bitcoin?
Phanteks PH-F140HP/TS
Distributed
Kept in Sync
by ‘Miners’

25. What is Bitcoin?
Phanteks PH-F140HP/TS
Distributed
Kept in Sync by
‘Miners’
Of “Real” Value

26. This Week
Blockchain Revolution p. 1 - 14
Metagame Book Club Site - Week 1
Metagame Book Club Google +

27. Blockchain Revolution
Next Hangout
Wednesday June 8 at 8 pm ET