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Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
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Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just read the preface and have to ask... is this heavy on marketing, cheerleading and kool-aid? First the author makes it sound like the Nakamoto paper was sent from the heavens and then this: > I became obsessed and enthralled, spending 12 or more hours each day glued to a screen, reading, writing, coding, and learning as much as I could. I emerged from this state of fugue, more than 20 pounds lighter from lack of…
Once again the autistic, asocial programmer clise gets autoconfirmed.
Why so hateful? What does having autism have to do with this? I don't really like the quoted piece from the preface either, and even if the author has autism, what does it matter? Isn't it more fair to people with autism and more powerful with regards to your dislike to the author to just not like the author based on that you don't like him as a person? That way you don't insult everyone with autism and you insult him more.
Also, your diagnose does not make much sense; you state that the dramatised telling in the preface means that the author has autism? In that case that would mean that people like Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert or in that case most Americans (compared to us reserved Dutch people) would have autism.
On top of this you seem to suggest that you have to have some sort of mental condition to do things 'wrong' (as far as you want to call the preface wrong). What disorder do you have that led you to write cliché as 'clise'? Or did you mean 'sexy young man'?[1]
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#83The 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.
I just read the preface and have to ask... is this heavy on marketing, cheerleading and kool-aid? First the author makes it sound like the Nakamoto paper was sent from the heavens and then this: > I became obsessed and enthralled, spending 12 or more hours each day glued to a screen, reading, writing, coding, and learning as much as I could. I emerged from this state of fugue, more than 20 pounds lighter from lack of…
> is this heavy on marketing, cheerleading and kool-aid?
I haven't looked at the book, but the author is, a bit. Here's a somewhat banana-pants talk he recently gave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyK4P7ZdOK8
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#84I started this a few months ago where you can learn smart contract development by doing projects: https://www.zastrin.com
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#85I 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 technical topics. Hundreds of footnotes provide jumping-off points and links to online demos. Cross-links allow you to quickly review prior material in later chapters.
There are eight chapters:
1. Bitcoin from Scratch (the view from 20,000 feet of Bitcoin and its subsystems)
2. Authentication (elliptic curve cryptography)
3. Authorization (Script, transactions, and contracts)
4. Network (block chain, consensus, hard/soft forks, governance, segwit, Lightning Network)
5. Privacy (what can and can't be discovered about users of a public block chain)
6. Security (what to protect and why)
7. Wallets (software for using Bitcoin)
8. Bitcoin in Practice (a complete system for using Bitcoin based on the content in the first seven chapters)
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#86What I am currently attending : https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency/home/welcome
Would also like to recommend this course. The lectures are good, the tasks are ok. It assumes familiarity with cryptographic hash functions and signatures, allowing to keep the focus on bitcoin. In some places it delves into some interesting variations of implementations, like Zcash.
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#87Check out the blockstack stuff. They have a to-do list tutorial available. Decentralized app development is kinda an etherem vs blockstack situation right now.
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#88Preethi Kasireddy has done a pretty good job with her blog: https://www.hashhack.it
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#89I second the references to "Mastering Bitcoin", and also add my blog post "Getting up to Speed on Ethereum" [1] that takes you from "I kinda understand bitcoin" to "I understand ethereum at a deep level and know about the big projects being built on top of it" over a few days.
[1] https://medium.com/@mattcondon/getting-up-to-speed-on-ethere...
Re: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
#90If 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?