You have a better technical background than me, so take this recommendation with a grain of salt, but I've found this textbook very useful: https://freedom-to-t

You have a better technical background than me, so take this recommendation with a grain of salt, but I've found this textbook very useful: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/the-princeton-bitcoin-textbook-is-now-freely-available/ https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/the-princeto... I've only read the first few chapters, but it seems to avoid the obvious traps of inaccessibility and misleading simplification.