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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-edge zero knowledge technology, that some believe may become standard in all future crypto-currencies.

https://z.cash/

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

Thank you man, just downloaded this book, will read it on this weekend. :)

I dont understand this question, what is your question? From the whitepaper do every single relevant discussion around this topic is freely available in the internet.

To elaborate it further, lets take a situation here, lets say,for a newbie who has spent considerable amount of time on reading a few books and searching through reddits, and watching about 50 videos related to the topic on youtube, what would be the best course of action, because most of the time the material on the internet on most blogs and article is the same, but just written in a different way.

So are there any websites, blogs, reddit groups or other forums which an experienced miner would suggest to a newbie ???

I still dont know what you want to know. you can also not just ask "How to learn about fiat money" and expect helpful information.

If you want to know how Bitcoins work, start with the Satoshi Whitepaper and proceed from there. I am sure it will automatically lead you to other resources when you try to understand some parts of it.

If you just want to use them, just use them, there is not really much knowledge needed for that.

If you are interested in the anonymity of it, look around the Darknet market communities.

If you just want to be involved in a general Bitcoin community, try Bitcointalk

Thanks for the answer, Actually up until now i was picking up bits and pieces of information instead of a more structured form. i guess i am not able to express my question in a better way. but hey thanks for engaging i this conversation, you gave me a starting point man, thanks a lot for that.

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/programmable-blockchains-in-co...

Just Found this few hours earlier, while searching for more information on bitcoins this video on youtube. I believe this be taken as an introductory video and this website too.

https://youtu.be/Lx9zgZCMqXE & https://www.bitcoinmining.com/

I recommend the ethereum whitepiper. It has a clear description of bitcoin and then goes on to describe other applications of the blockchain:

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

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

I have the same question!

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