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There is actually a standard way for new people to get into crypto. However, it is emphatically not to write your own crypto and let others evaluate it. Everyon
by Beldin 6y ago
There is actually a standard way for new people to get into crypto. However, it is emphatically not to write your own crypto and let others evaluate it. Everyone can make a crypto system they themselves cannot break. That says very little about the system's security, unless you're actually goods at breaking crypto.
That is why you begin learning crypto by breaking other people's crypto. Once you understand some of the pitfalls, your designs are far less likely to incorporate the same pitfalls.
- filleduchaos 6y ago> There is actually a standard way for new people to get into crypto...That is why you begin learning crypto by breaking other people's crypto. And that is actual, useful advice for someone who is looking to get into crypto, not the equivalent of spraying an errant dog with a water bottle. Hence, like I said, studying and learning from others' experiments first. To bring up game engine or OS dev again for instance, the answer to "I want to build my own game engine/OS" isn't "don't do that, you'll get it wrong", because people in those fields have actually put in the effort to create and document amateur-friendly resources targeted at various levels. And it's not like using your own OS or game engine in production is necessarily less dangerous than you using your own crypto in it, but again people in those fields somehow seem capable at grasping that people can [want to do] things without it even remotely being about a production service or product.