Study classic networking and distributed computing. There's nothing really novel about most cryptocurrencies from a CS perspective. The ones that aren't scams a

Study classic networking and distributed computing. There's nothing really novel about most cryptocurrencies from a CS perspective. The ones that aren't scams are all built on classical consensus algorithms and p2p application programming concepts. A few even offer novel albeit incremental contributions to the state of the art. Source: have PhD in CS in wide-area distributed computing