Joshua McDougall

Announcing: Blockchain Training Conference 2019

C4 is proud to announce its next Blockchain Training Conference is taking place August 28-30th in Denver, Colorado. This event is a follow-up to the highly successful 2016 Blockchain Training Conference that last educated professionals from around the globe in Toronto, Canada. Learn. Apply. Grow. by attending BTC2019. The 3-day

Announcing the CCSSA

The CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium was excited to announce our next certification, the CryptoCurrency Security Standard Auditor (CCSSA), at Hoshocon in Las Vegas today. The CCSSA identifies individuals who possess the knowledge, expertise and capability to assess private key operations (creation, storage, signing, etc.) against the ten domains of the CCSS.

Certified Bitcoin Professionals on LinkedIn

There has been some renewed interest in our Certified Bitcoin Professional LinkedIn group and we agree that it can be a great resource for our professionals. We will be reaching out those holding the certification over the next couple weeks, inviting them all to build a space for our professionals

Education

Investing in Education Instead of Speculation

The Blockchain Training Conference, which took place in Toronto, Canada this week, was a huge success by a number of measurements. As material becomes ready, we will be posting it here to share the lessons learned by those in attendance. We are proud to share the first video of the

Congratulations to all our new Certified Dogecoin Professionals

Stats 52 people participated 28 Doge Professionals 8 countries 12 exam failures :( CDP Certificate Blank For everyone who passed the exam, and for everyone else who didn't get a chance to participate in our lighthearted April Fool's prank, here's a link to the blank Certified Dogecoin Professional certificate so you

Bitcoin Alliance of Canada

The Blockchain Training Conference comes to Toronto, Canada

Learn. Apply. Grow. The Bitcoin Alliance of Canada is pleased to announce the Blockchain Training Conference this June, in Toronto, in collaboration with The Bitcoin Foundation and CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4). “The Blockchain Training Conference is a new kind of conference” says Michael Perklin, one of the Bitcoin Alliance of

Certified Bitcoin Professional

Happy Birthday to the CBP!

It's almost hard to believe, time travels so fast, but the Certified Bitcoin Professional was launched a year ago today. In that time we have certified hundreds of professionals across 24 countries globally. We have met thousands of incredible people and worked with many of the top companies in our

Fundraiser

Our Lighthouse Campaign is 25% Funded!

The C4 Lighthouse Campaign has hit 13 BTC, 26% of our goal! We wanted to quickly take a moment to show our appreciation for everyone who has supported us to date. The largest contribution comes from Gem, who gave 11.325 BTC to support C4 in our efforts to curate

CCSS

Contributing to the CryptoCurrency Security Standard

The CCSS is an open standard, born out of the belief that security should not be the defining feature of your service. Sharing the industry's best practices amongst each other is encouraged through an understanding that it benefits everyone. From the beginning, the CCSS has been a community based endeavour.

Fundraiser

C4 Lighthouse Campaign

C4 has launched our first Lighthouse campaign! For those of you who already know what Lighthouse is and want to grab the project, you can grab it here: https://cryptoconsortium.org/c4.lighthouse-project You can also watch the progress here: https://www.lightlist.io/projects/37 For those of you

Are you using multi-sig yet?

Found our CryptoCurrency Security Standard a bit initimidating? Not quite sure where to start? I'm going to let you in on a little secret that will hopefully give you a great way to begin - start using multi-sig! Multi-sig allows you to: Enforce treasury rules within an organization (verified destinations,

Introducing the CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS)

The C4 mission statement is to develop and maintain standards that will benefit the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We accomplish this mission with the collaboration of the brightest minds in our space and have met success with each of our prior projects. Today, after months of working with extremely knowledgeable partners on

Bitcoin

Join us at DevCore Boston on February 11th, 2015

Coming up in February, Michael Perklin and myself will be speaking alongside Patrick Murck of the Bitcoin Foundation, to discuss how we can build standards together to help mature the cryptocurrency space. In addition to our speaking slot at DevCore Boston, we also have space to run a workshop designed

Bitcoin

Preparing for the Certified Bitcoin Professional exam

We often get questioned about how one goes about preparing for the Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) exam. This isn't necessarily an easy question to answer, as everyone has their own learning styles, but we hope that these resources will offer some guidance. First off, you should really look for bitcoin

Certified Bitcoin Professional

How the Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) was defined

Transparency and openness are really important to C4 and it is something we have always worked to incorporate in our processes. We realized recently though that although we work hard at this on a local level, we haven't really had a venue to discuss the same to the rest of

ISO 17024

ISO 17024 Accreditation for C4

In order to become an accredited personnel certification body, C4 must participate in the ANSI accreditation program which (unfortunately) is not free. As a non-profit, we don't have an huge amount of bitcoin on hand at the moment, but we do feel this is an important step that we would

Press Release

C4 Launches World's First Bitcoin Certification Program

The CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4), today announced the world's first Bitcoin certification program aimed at helping solve the skills shortage as it relates to the burgeoning Bitcoin technology adoption. With Bitcoin related start-ups continuing to gain attention from venture capitalists and existing multinational companies now accepting Bitcoin payments, there is