If you're interested in the nitty gritty of the mechanics of Bitcoin, check out my blog post: http://www.samlewis.me/2017/06/a-peek-under-bitcoins-hood/
Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
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Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#112The book "Mastering Bitcoin" really helped me to understand the blockchain and bitcoin properly. It's available free online here~ http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001802/index.ht... The author is putting out a similar book called "Mastering Ethereum" in February, also through O'Reilly.
Is this available in Mobi/Kindle format?
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#113If you're interested in Ethereum Smart Contracts I wrote: http://ethereumdev.io/
Clearly written articles, thx! I’m n00b in Smart Contracts but they seem like interfaces to reading/writing to a data store. If I didn’t totally botch what they are. Then I don’t really get why they’re “smart”. The pitfalls of regular programming, seem to apply to contracts. Seems like I could easily code a bug in a smart contract and have it t deployed to the network?? Or did I miss something?
It's really just a marketing name.
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#114I recently created a platform that has my hand-picked resources for bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain:
https://symphosis.com
It has resources for other concepts like Design, UX, JavaScript, Startups, etc.
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#115I recently published an intermediate-level e-book on Bitcoin: http://bitzuma.com/owning-bitcoin/ This is the book I wish had existed when I started learning about Bitcoin in 2011. It's a technical deep-dive for a non-expert audience. Only knowledge of high school algebra and a willingness to learn are assumed. Every technical term comes with a definition. Over 300 figures help visual learners understand complex techn…
Would you consider putting this on Google Play as well? I have a lot of Play credit I'd like to use on your book
I wanted to, but Google Play Books has been closed to new publishers for some time.
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#116“Tutorial: Blockchains and Databases” at the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) in Munich on 29 August 2017:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7lNUaak0bK1ZDhkak05VHA0d00...
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on my cursory understanding of the topic, The Merkle tree has been around for a while, but Satoshi figured out how to use that to achieve decentralization, and consensus building. If you ask me, that's quite revolutionary. Yes, the blockchain is just a gigantic DAG, but adding and deleting nodes on the graph is where the crux of the matter is I guess. I am starting to understand the logic from a currency perspe…
Is there more to consensus and decentralization than just pinging a few other computers and picking the longest chain you find? And proof of work is literally just the hash having a certain number of zero bits, right? Definitely a neat idea but hardly revolutionary if that's all there is to it.
Something can be "revolutionary" and made up of pieces not in themselves groundbreaking. Linux was revolutionary and it was just a Unix clone for IBM PCs.
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#118I compiled some of the resources I used to start understanding it. It it a bit focused on ethereum, but I guess it is useful for starting to understand blockchain and smart contracts in general regardless --- Watching - "GOTO 2017 • Blockchain: The Slowest (and most Fascinating) Database in the World • Stefan Tilkov” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li3rfBAP_fE Explains how the blockchain works and walks through most…
Great list!