Blockchain is a technology that not even all IT specialists understand. At the same time, she is on everyone’s lips. Do you want to not only catch familiar words, but also understand more deeply or even start building a career in blockchain?
The Ethereum cryptocurrency and decentralized application platform website contains a lot of information and useful links about how it works. You can start with basic articles about what Ethereum is and move forward page by page. A collection of useful links can be found here. Among them are speeches by the creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin.
Blockchain course from MIT professor Gary Gensler. Contains 24 lectures, each ~1 hour. In addition to YouTube, the course is available on the MIT website – with additional reading materials.
On Reddit they write that the course is designed with an emphasis on the economic side of blockchain, but it still covers the topic well and is well suited for beginners, too.
For those who want to go deeper into the technical side and don’t mind reading, the books Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum (read in that order) are suitable. The books are publicly available on GitHub. The authors claim that anyone with a basic understanding of IT can read and understand the content.
In addition to the books, code examples from them are also posted on GitHub.
One of the best books about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies, which explains from scratch what it is. The author is a professor at Princeton University. The book comes with a free course on Coursera.
The book also explains the technical details, while reviews write that even a first-year Computer Science student will understand the explanation.
YouTube channel with short (from a few minutes to half an hour) videos about blockchain. All materials are published in an explanatory format and usually answer the question ‘What is…?’ (“What is…?”). For example, one of the latest videos is answers to frequently asked questions about Web3.0.
Finally, a recommendation for those who don’t mind paying to be led by the hand through the world of blockchain straight to a new job in the industry. EatTheBlock online school is theoretical and practical online training in Web3 technologies. It was founded by a French developer with 15 years of experience in the industry.
There are several course options for beginners (general) and advanced (specific technology). Price starts from $97.