4000 sats \ 3 replies \ @handsome_latino 13 Oct 2022 \ on: Best Major or Classes to take to be involved in the lightning/bitcoin community? bitcoin
  1. Start with Mastering Bitcoin (mentioned somewhere else).
  2. Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song is a hard pill to digest but you must read it (or something alike) if you want to have better understanding.
  3. https://learnmeabitcoin.com <-- Greg is amazing at explaining difficult topics. Highly recommended for a deep dive on math / engineering topics.
Take courses in Coursera or EDX or any other similar systems. Tadge Dryja (one of the creators of the LN specification) has a whole course online from MIT https://dci.mit.edu/research/tag/Tadge+Dryja.
The videos are available here: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mas-s62-cryptocurrency-engineering-and-design-spring-2018/video_galleries/lecture-videos/
I am a CS major, and I would heavily advice against blockchain eng. unless you know it's strictly bitcoin, particularly because a lot of people in the community will value you out of your merits and hard work in projects / helping out, rather than a degree.
Even with that MIT degree, notice how many courses are about "cryptocoins" and even CDBCs. It's okay to inform yourself about those topics but if you disagree entirely with their idea would you like to be spending time in school taking courses on them?
When I went to CS school 15 years ago, if you didn't have a degree it would have been impossible. Nowadays PoW trumps degrees.
In the few months that I spent going into the rabbit hole I learned more about privacy, security, cryptography, encryption, math, than I did in school.
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90 sats \ 2 replies \ @creampuff OP 13 Oct 2022
Thanks! yah I got a similar feeling interacting with any of the economics professors that would be part of the blockchain eng track. All of them are bought and paid for Keynesian's where all they can imagine of the future is a "digital fed" whatever that means...
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2000 sats \ 1 reply \ @handsome_latino 13 Oct 2022
Yeah, and we can't really blame them -- if you profit from the system it's very hard to come out of it, but it is especially hard to realize things might be wrong for others. I talk from experience because I kind of did for some time.
If you do go some route make a post on SN to let us know and keep us posted on your progress ;)
Thanks for the juicy tip!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @creampuff OP 21 Oct 2022
Certainly can't blame them. We just gotta build a better incorruptible world.
That's a great idea I'll revisit this account in a year :)
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