How I Learn Bitcoin

2025-03-04   howilearn crypto software sketch

Bitcoin book (bible)

• https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook (forked)
  

• Mastering Bitcoin by Antonopoulos
  

Introduction to Cryptocurrency Course by Haseeb Qureshi

• https://balajis.com/p/introduction-to-cryptocurrency
  

• https://haseebq.com/introduction-to-cryptocurrency/
  

Andrej Karpathy Lesson

• Andrej Karpathy's A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python (archived)
  

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  • https://x.com/karpathy/status/1840080549446357420
    

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• https://github.com/karpathy/cryptos (forked)
  

Crypto course of Dan Boneh

• mentioned by Balaji at NS job - Lecturer (archived)
  

• its book version > https://toc.cryptobook.us/
  

Dan Boneh - Blockchain Primitives Cryptography and Consensus (archived)

Crypto Reading (archived) from Dan Romero

Crypto/blockchain books among the Recommended books of Balaji

Cryptocurrency history course by David Stancel whom I know from Network School

Blockchain reading list - https://github.com/barisozmen/CoinStory

Bitcoin Resources (from crypto 102 course by David])

• Annotated BTC WP: https://medium.com/coinmonks/bitcoin-white-paper-down-into-the-rabbit-hole-efbaeba3a83e
  

• Bitcoin Tech explained: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/
  

  • Focus on https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/#how-to-become-a-bitcoin-programmer part
    

    • “Bitcoin is an open-source program, so you can read the code and write your own code to interact with it if you want to. I found the best way to learn how it works is to create your own simple tools.”
      

    • “You can read about how bitcoin works as much as you want, but until you start coding, making mistakes (which you will), and building some useful tools, you're never going to make progress. So don't be afraid to give it a go. We've all got to start somewhere.”
      

• Blog https://www.royalfork.org/
  

  • recommended at https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/#how-to-become-a-bitcoin-programmer
    

• Article https://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain/
  

  • recommended at https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/#how-to-become-a-bitcoin-programmer
    

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Ethereum Resources (from crypto 102 course by David])

• Mastering Ethereum https://github.com/barisozmen/ethereumbook (forked)
  

• Intro to Smart Contracts: https://blog.coinbase.com/intro-to-smart-contracts-f436b1ac2bb8
  

  • Learning sources for ETH: https://www.ethereum.org/learn/
    

Lots of academic resources on Zero Knowledge Proofs: https://rdi.berkeley.edu/zk-learning/

Entrepreneurship in Web3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS01nW3Rtgor3EijYdpEHOQi1sZ6m5gos

• Balaji and Haseeb Qureshi talks