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Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?

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Post by bitcointutoring »

Hi m52go,

I have a blockchain/bitcoin tutoring service at www.blockchaintutoring.com. I did a Show HN but didn't get a single comment :(

I'm a programmer myself, but my target market is not the typical HN user. I'm looking to teach more business types and people in the law profession, for example. I'm preparing a small course plan to help people get from 0 to knowledgeable. The course will certainly be a bit technical, but I would not cover for example the pros and cons of the blocksize debate unless someone asks for that information.

I invite you to contact me, either through my website's contact form or the email address there provided. We can chat, and then if you ever choose to use the service, it's going to be at a discount for HN users. Your questions will definitely help me tailor my offering.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?

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Post by jeffrestore »

Capability-based Financial Instruments: http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html

Although this paper does not directly address the blockchain, I believe it and the thesis below are at the root of the concept. (If you want to go down the rabbit hole, check out the references page of the above paper). Fair warning, the above paper is from 1999/2000 so obviously much has changed, but still worth reading.

Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control by Mark Samuel Miller:

http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/

Re: Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?

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Post by fode »

This has been a great resource for me, especially Andreas's video at the end:

Inserting metadata into the blockchain. https://medium.com/@bkawk/inserting-metadata-into-the-blockc...

Andreas M. Antonopoulos: "Consensus Algorithms, Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin" [UCL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7998qfjgk

Re: Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?

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Post by adamqureshi »

bitcointutoring wrote: post #21

Hi m52go, I have a blockchain/bitcoin tutoring service at www.blockchaintutoring.com. I did a Show HN but didn't get a single comment :( I'm a programmer myself, but my target market is not the typical HN user. I'm looking to teach more business types and people in the law profession, for example. I'm preparing a small course plan to help people get from 0 to knowledgeable. The course will certainly be a bit technica…

What email? Sent a message on your form, your form has no progress bar / feedback after submit and does not load on chrome mobile. See my message below on this thread.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?

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Post by scott_ci »

I've found that getting a wallet and sending some Bitcoin is a great first step. This course introduces Bitcoin and also surveys an array of other decentralized, blockchain projects: https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/bitcoin-decentralized-te... (caveats: self-promotion, pay-walled, but the free trial allows you to watch 95% of it).

Bear in mind that the word "blockchain" is an evolving word; almost every definition I've read differs. Some see it as barely different than a distributed database that doesn't allow deletions. Many others see it as paradigm shifting.

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