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Ask HN: How to learn more about Crypto Currencies for a Newbie??

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Re: Ask HN: How to learn more about Crypto Currencies for a Newbie??

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Princeton prof ARVIND NARAYANAN - wrote an excellent introductory book on Bitcoin. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/the-princeto...

The Princeton Bitcoin class and companion text are very thorough. One of the crypto-currencies of note highlighted during the class was zerocoin, which adds a layer of anonymity to the blockchain. The Zcash implementation of zerocoin is currently launching in alpha. It may prove an interesting way to witness the progress of a crypto-currency being bootstrapped in real-time. As well as gaining insight into cutting-edg…

is there a public syllabus/reading list available for this? please share if available.

Re: Ask HN: How to learn more about Crypto Currencies for a Newbie??

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The number of resources available online is just too intimidating for a "newbie". I have started this class on Coursera a few weeks ago, and it is very well structured and gradual. [0] [0] : https://class.coursera.org/bitcointech-001

Thanks for the link mate, just enrolled into the course, i hope this will help me understand 'BitCoin' in a better way
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