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/b

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.