Down, down, down.
Would the fall never come to an end?
Getting into Bitcoin is a humbling experience. I thought that I
knew things. I thought that I was educated. I thought that I knew my
computer science, at the very least. I studied it for years, so I have to
know everything about digital signatures, hashes, encryption, operational
security, and networks, right?
Wrong.
Learning all the fundamentals which make Bitcoin work is hard.
Understanding all of them deeply is borderline impossible.
“No one
has found the bottom of the Bitcoin rabbit hole.”
Lopp
My list of books to read keeps expanding way quicker than I could
possibly read them. The list of papers and articles to read is virtually
endless. There are more podcasts on all of these topics than I could ever
listen to. It truly is humbling. Further, Bitcoin is evolving and
it’s almost impossible to stay up-to-date with the accelerating
rate of innovation. The dust of the first layer hasn’t even
settled yet, and people have already built the second layer and are working
on the third.
Bitcoin taught me that I know very little about almost anything. It
taught me that this rabbit hole is bottomless.
Follow-up articles that expand upon ideas discussed in this
lesson:
Bitcoin's Eternal Struggle - How Bitcoin Thrives on the Edge between
Order and Chaos
target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitcoin Information
& Resources by Jameson Lopp
target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitcoin
Literature by Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
target="_blank" rel="noopener">Educational
Resources by Bitcoin Only
target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitcoin
Intro by 6102bitcoin
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Corallo on how Everyone is Ignorant when it comes to Bitcoin
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Prentice on the Bitcoin Spectrum
BEC#14 hosted by
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