This thread blew up on my twitter and figured it was probably worth it to put it here as well. Lots of great content here — I’ll be doing more and more of these as I build my blockchain company and have to learn things piece by piece.

Blockchain at Berkley’s Spring 2021 fundamentals course.

Slides and recordings:

Tim Ferriss, Naval and Nick Szabo’s podcast about crypto and bitcoin:

Similar to one above but Tim Ferriss, Naval and Vitalik Buterin’s podcast on scaling, ETH, NFT’s and more:

A16z Crypto startup school:

Opensea’s all encompassing NFT guide:

Understanding off-chain data with Kyle Tut of Pinata

A16z crypto Glossary:

Chris Dixon’s essay on NFT’s and a thousand true fans (must read for people getting into NFT’s IMO):

For blockchain devs (or people trying to get into Solidity)… this is best tutorial out there:

Not solely focused on blockchain but great talk throughout around the subject with Naval and Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience:

Coinbase’s beginners guide to DeFi (decentralized finance):

Balajis on why you need blockchain (from a dev approach):

Marc Andreessen’s article on why Bitcoin matters (peep that date):

For anyone getting into tokenomics this Vitalik Buterin is a must read on analyzing the sale models:

Another good primer for NFTs and decentralized web with @garyvee and @CoinDesk (this is a short 15 min guy):

Why sharding makes sense by Vitalik:

And on that same note — the limits to blockchain scalability is also up there as a must read by Vitalik as well:

Bonus (heady) round here on crypto-civilizations by Balajis on Bankless. This REALLY opened my eyes to some possibilities I couldn’t have even thought of in my dreams:

Forgot about rollups — those are important to understand too. Rudimentary article by Vitalik:

Consensys’ article on PoS (proof of stake) and PoW (proof of work)

Coinbase’s article on understanding web3 approach and mapping through the infrastructure of web2 vs 3 (great dev article):

Standford‘s open course for cryptocurrencies, blockchain and smart contracts:

Baljis on what blockchain has already helped push the envelope on:

Fred Ehrsam‘s article on why ETH is the forefront of digital currency:

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