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Sorry for going off-topic, but is there any good community I can join if I am interested only in understanding the technical side of blokchain and blockchain de

Sorry for going off-topic, but is there any good community I can join if I am interested only in understanding the technical side of blokchain and blockchain development, its potential use cases and pitfalls.

tinco 9y ago
There are slack channels and of course the GitHub repos.
- mikevin 9y ago
  Do you have any links to those? Thanks
  - marknadal 9y ago
    P2P/decentralized in general, including but not limited to blockchain: https://gitter.im/amark/gun https://gitter.im/amark/gun (super friendly crowd, focuses on the cryptography part of crypto, not the currency side)
  - tinco 9y ago
    The most interesting GH Repo is here: https://github.com/ethereum/research https://github.com/ethereum/research The forum is located here: https://ethresear.ch/ https://ethresear.ch/ They use gitter instead of slack, I think I misremembered.
    - ontouchstart 9y ago
      Thanks for the link. Through the forum I found two useful documents: Onboarding packets for potential collaborators: http://notes.eth.sg/s/rkxpeG0ff http://notes.eth.sg/s/rkxpeG0ff (Hello potential research collaborator! ) http://notes.eth.sg/s/rksCgM0Mz http://notes.eth.sg/s/rksCgM0Mz (Hello potential PLT-research collaborator!)
      - hdespiritu 9y ago
        Awesome. Been looking for an up-to-date list of current programming language research being done for smart contracts.
bpicolo 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/ is reasonably well moderated https://bitcointalk.org/ https://bitcointalk.org/ is also a foundational forum
miguelrochefort 9y ago
The blockchain is already obsolete. It's all about the hashgraph now.
thinkmassive 9y ago
There’s no shortage of materials to use for self-education before you seek out a community. Bitcoin resources: https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html Ethereum resources: http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/ http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/ https://raiden.network/ https://raiden.network/ https://www.plasma.io/ https://www.plasma.io/ Vitalik’s recent scalability blog post with many links to further reading: https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/01/02/ethereum-scalability-research-development-subsidy-programs/ https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/01/02/ethereum-scalability-re... All of the legitimate projects have a decent technical community, and many maintain good docs and/or blogs. Personally I find Tendermint and Cosmos very interesting, and I gained a better grasp of proof-of-stake by reading their articles. Run your own nodes and interact with them from your favorite programming language. After you have a grasp of the existing technologies used by Bitcoin and Ethereum, I recommend learning about the issues both are trying to tackle going forward (second layer channels, proof-of-stake, sharding). Then you’ll be in a good place to understand the alternatives proposed by newer projects, like using a DAG instead of a blockchain.
- thinkmassive 9y ago
  Oh, and if you’re concerned about the cost of testing on mainnet, consider running a dogecoin node to start off. It’s an early fork of bitcoin, so the functionality and interface is similar, but it’s extremely inexpensive.
Ihfhcub 9y ago
It's not possible because there is no such technology. It's just a marketing word to sell ICOs

tinco 9y ago

There are slack channels and of course the GitHub repos.

mikevin 9y ago
Do you have any links to those? Thanks
- marknadal 9y ago
  P2P/decentralized in general, including but not limited to blockchain: https://gitter.im/amark/gun https://gitter.im/amark/gun (super friendly crowd, focuses on the cryptography part of crypto, not the currency side)
- tinco 9y ago
  The most interesting GH Repo is here: https://github.com/ethereum/research https://github.com/ethereum/research The forum is located here: https://ethresear.ch/ https://ethresear.ch/ They use gitter instead of slack, I think I misremembered.
  - ontouchstart 9y ago
    Thanks for the link. Through the forum I found two useful documents: Onboarding packets for potential collaborators: http://notes.eth.sg/s/rkxpeG0ff http://notes.eth.sg/s/rkxpeG0ff (Hello potential research collaborator! ) http://notes.eth.sg/s/rksCgM0Mz http://notes.eth.sg/s/rksCgM0Mz (Hello potential PLT-research collaborator!)
    - hdespiritu 9y ago
      Awesome. Been looking for an up-to-date list of current programming language research being done for smart contracts.

bpicolo 9y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/ is reasonably well moderated https://bitcointalk.org/ https://bitcointalk.org/ is also a foundational forum

miguelrochefort 9y ago

The blockchain is already obsolete. It's all about the hashgraph now.

thinkmassive 9y ago

There’s no shortage of materials to use for self-education before you seek out a community. Bitcoin resources: https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html Ethereum resources: http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/ http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/ https://raiden.network/ https://raiden.network/ https://www.plasma.io/ https://www.plasma.io/ Vitalik’s recent scalability blog post with many links to further reading: https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/01/02/ethereum-scalability-research-development-subsidy-programs/ https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/01/02/ethereum-scalability-re... All of the legitimate projects have a decent technical community, and many maintain good docs and/or blogs. Personally I find Tendermint and Cosmos very interesting, and I gained a better grasp of proof-of-stake by reading their articles. Run your own nodes and interact with them from your favorite programming language. After you have a grasp of the existing technologies used by Bitcoin and Ethereum, I recommend learning about the issues both are trying to tackle going forward (second layer channels, proof-of-stake, sharding). Then you’ll be in a good place to understand the alternatives proposed by newer projects, like using a DAG instead of a blockchain.

thinkmassive 9y ago
Oh, and if you’re concerned about the cost of testing on mainnet, consider running a dogecoin node to start off. It’s an early fork of bitcoin, so the functionality and interface is similar, but it’s extremely inexpensive.

Ihfhcub 9y ago

It's not possible because there is no such technology. It's just a marketing word to sell ICOs