Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer?

Posted by learnthrowaway on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:16PM
from the ask-hn dept.

What's the best way for someone technical to start contributing in cryptocurrency? I come from a systems background.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by clippablematt on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:15PM (#28474756)

Join an eth global hackathon and find a team to jam with.

http://ethglobal.co/

Play with solidity, deploy toys to test nets, tuna local node.

https://solidity-by-example.org/

https://eth-brownie.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

That’s if you are interested in contract/transaction layers. If you are more interested in the main chain then look into go-ethereum or erigon clients.

Cadcad is also a popular for playing with systems design/modelling for crypto projects https://cadcad.org/

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by mthoms on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:49PM (#28473177)

Be careful, you're about to be berated for using "Crypto" in reference to Cryptocurrency instead of Cryptography :)

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by junon on Friday September 10, 2021 @06:47AM (#28479774)

This. In a programming context, "crypto" always refers to cryptography.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by syndacks on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:22PM (#28473579)

HN user zoenolan posted this in another thread, with some great resources particularly focused on Solidity (Ethereum): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337686

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by ejanus on Friday September 10, 2021 @12:42PM (#28484026)

Try gitcoin.co, you may start off working(earning) and learning from there.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by fhaldridge7 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @10:13PM (#28477012)

Many crypto companies are hiring due having more money from the recent bull run. I suggest you check for job offerings and go through the "What you need to know" etc. sections and then try to learn about it

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by heckingoodtimes on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:48PM (#28472495)

Assuming cryptocurrency, I looked into this and concluded that learning Solidity would be what I venture into.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by killingtime74 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:56PM (#28473255)

I’m sure if you worked in a crypto firm you’d learn very quickly compared to on your own

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by rak1507 on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:54AM (#28479176)

https://www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com/

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by mikewarot on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:56PM (#28476940)

The best advice about cryptography also happens to work for cryptocurrency

Never roll your own.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by nonamenoslogan on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:43PM (#28476860)

Buy some, cold wallet it, forget about it.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by sydthrowaway on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:43PM (#28489269)

What wallet do you rexommend

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Re:Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer? by kcoyner on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:22PM (#28504023)

Buy Cardano (https://cardano.org) using a Daedalus wallet (https://daedaluswallet.io/) and delegate your holdings to a stake pool like Adadog [ADOG1] (https://adadog.io). Staking helps build the Cardano eco-system, which as of later today will also be capable of doing smart contracts.

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