hey stackers, @niftynei here, head of instruction for Base58⛓️🔓
We’re working on getting our calendar of class offerings for next year ready and I just wanted to get a temperature check on what people want to know about bitcoin or lightning or ??? next year
What’s missing from your devucation?
- online self paced options?
- online cohort classes?
- just good online manuals + books
- in person experiences??
As a reminder, we’re an engineering school built on the bitcoin standard: our classes right now focus on hands on implementation work (mostly in python) for the bitcoin basics (transactions + crypto), lightning, and taproot.
classes that are on our radar to add:
- wallets (descriptors/psbts/key mgmt/miniscript)
- ordinals (taproot data, send ittt)
- psbt mini course
- how to nix
- maybe a rust class if @niftynei ever gets her head wrapped around how it works
- ????
PS: we’re hoping to transition to a nonprofit org for next year too, so keep an eye out for opportunities to help fund scholarships etc soon 🔜
PPS: we’ve got a discord too https://discord.gg/TaQWQ8rkGV
Online self-paced would be awesome, something like a frontendmasters except for btc stuff.
Ooh thanks. Love a good rec!
FEM has much to teach the industry, I think. No affiliation, but a happy subscriber. They've got it largely figured out.
what do you like about their model or way of teaching?
If I were to take a course it would probably be on running a routing LN node.
You and me both 😹
Not classes, per se, but learning aids like...
Self custody basics for newbies.
Easy to digest.
Hmm have you seen the multisig video using sparrow i did with Area Bitcoin?
https://www.areabitcoin.co/courses/workshop-social-multisigs
No, not yet. Is Social Multi Sig a widely-known concept, or is it a more recent innovation?
It's a Brazilianification of a term I like for mulitparty multisigs aka "collaborative multisig": where you and a group of people hold a set of keys.
If you're holding funds with friends or your family, it's 1000% the right way to help onboard more people, giving them some shared responsibility without full risk of funds lost if one party loses their keys.
These are the next best thing to in person and scale better than in person. Things that I like to see for these:
Things that might be missing from the list:
My dad signs his texts
dadtooI would be interested to explore more about how the advent of Generative AI would impact the further development of BTC and the Lightning Network, be it beneficial or detrimental