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Re:Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts? by vjdhama on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:03AM (#15399594)
There's this course by the people who wrote `Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies`

It covers the basics pretty well.

http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/

Re:Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts? by socrates1024 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:58PM (#15401917)
I'd definitely recommend this book, it's great! Comes with decent video lectures and such too. (disclosure: am a coauthor)

Also, this course page has some useful links and lecture notes/slides (mostly geared towards graduate students and research) http://soc1024.ece.illinois.edu/teaching/ece598am/fall2016/

Re:Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts? by supermdguy on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @01:54PM (#15402541)
I read the book, and it was incredible. It went in depth into the data structures of bitcoin, while also providing high level overviews of various cryptocurrency ideas. It really helped me to understand exactly what cryptocurrency is and how it works.
Re:Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts? by Asdfbla on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @10:42AM (#15400765)
I can second this. It's a book written by capable people who do some research in the area too and they don't unecessarily hype the technology like so many resources you find about cryptocurrencies.