Navigating/Evaluating Online Resources

Of course, you need the same digital literacy and critical evaluation skills that you use everyday as a student or researcher.

In addition, you should embrace some core maxims from this industry:

“Do Your Own Research”

and

“Don’t Trust, Verify”

How to verify? Look for widely vetted sources (Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the original and the best) and voices to start following. That doesn’t mean trust everything they say, of course, but start to curate sources that make sense to you!

Before diving into blockchain-specific resources, I’ll share the best ‘game theory’ orientation I’ve ever found- Nicky Case’s ~30 min game ‘The Evolution of Trust’.

Bitcoin Resources

Unsurprisingly, Bitcoin has the most ‘established’ sets of curated resources.

The Bitcoin Wiki was created in 2010. It’s not updated a ton but it’s a great starting point for all of the basics, especially very bite-sized core technical concepts.

Jameson Lopp’s Bitcoin Resources is a much more all-encompassing site for exploration, and he maintains it as somewhat of a community project with additional resources frequently suggested through the project’s Github repository.

Ethereum and Other Blockchain Resources

For Ethereum, the project’s home site learning section is a great place to start exploring.

From there, ETHhub curates extensive learning resources from the community, and the ethresear.ch forum presents deeper dives in the fringe of active research and development.

Ultimately, most projects beyond these two widely adopted public blockchains will present you their own “self-contained” resources and learning path (an indicator that, at this stage, many of them are still very centralized).

As Bitcoin and Ethereum have a much broader surface of commentary and content production, I thought it would be most useful to provide specific curation regarding these blockchains.

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