I recommend avoiding Twitter if the goal is to actually understand the fundamental principles underlying blockchains. Most of Twitter is about memes and marketi

I recommend avoiding Twitter if the goal is to actually understand the fundamental principles underlying blockchains. Most of Twitter is about memes and marketing and not actually about the fundamentals of the technology and how it can be utilized to do worthwhile things. If you want to understand the technology then learning a little bit about hash function and public/private key cryptography will give you the necessary conceptual prerequisites for making sense of smart contracts. At that point you can start reading about the actual implementation details of various blockchains or look further into distributed consensus mechanisms because blockchains are fundamentally about linearizing concurrent event streams and reaching consensus in distributed systems.