How to learn more about cryptocurrencies?

4 points by AlexanderTheGr8 4y ago ↗ HN

I am a CS student and want to learn more about the details of cryptocurrencies, in the hope of contributing to the open-src crypto community in the future.

Due to Google's crappy results, I cannot find anything. So can anyone involved in development of crypto please recommend good books that explain the fundamental details behind cryptocurrencies (PoW, PoS, etc.)?

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g42gregory 4y ago ↗

There is an old (2016, pre-Ethereum large adoption) book from Princeton, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction [1].

I find it good for the fundamentals. There is a corresponding Coursera class but I found that class a bit long-winded.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691171696/

[dead] spraveenitpro 4y ago ↗

Read about Anchor Bias, Bitcoin is the Original invention that sparked all the altcoin/shitcoin/cryptocurrency market. All other "Crypto Currencies" are securities created by individuals who premined it for benefiting in the future like ethereum which has infinite supply controlled by one man also its primary purpose is to launch other tokens on top of it.

1. https://programmingbitcoin.com/ 2. https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-bitcoin 3. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

AlexanderTheGr8 4y ago ↗

2 books I have been recommended are: 1) Mastering Bitcoin - Andreas Antonopoulos 2) Programming Bitcoin - Jimmy Song

armchairhacker 4y ago ↗

Type “reddit” or “hn” after all your searches. Reddit and Hacker News generally give accurate information, though biased, so look at both pro and anti crypto sources.

r/CryptoCurrency is also good resource.

fhaldridge7 4y ago ↗

https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook