Student Guide
  • 📖Welcome to the Student Guide
  • ABOUT
    • What is Summer of Bitcoin?
    • Why should you apply?
    • Am I eligible?
    • How it works?
    • Is it a paid internship?
    • FAQ
  • The Proposal Round
    • About
    • Getting started with Bitcoin
    • Finding the right organization and project
    • Getting started with an organization and project
    • Writing a winning project proposal
  • Being turned down
  • Mentors
    • Evaluating your mentee during mid-term
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Getting started with Bitcoin

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There are three modules for learning the fundamentals of bitcoin. The first two modules cover the fundamentals of money and bitcoin. The final module allows you to dig deeper. Each module includes a set of resources. Studying them will help you understand Bitcoin in order to prepare better project proposals and be successful during your bitcoin internship.

The learning bootcamp organized for screened applicants from February 15 - March 15 will cover all the technical basics on bitcoin. The resources provided below are supplementary to your learning. Feel free to browse through them and dig deeper as per your interests.

Developer Track

Module 1: Understanding Money Read chapters I, II, III.1 and III.2 from by Murray Rothbard.

Module 2: Grokking Bitcoin

You may use any or all of the following formats:

  1. Grokking Bitcoin Book (, , ) by Kalle Rosenbaum. We recommend using the Zip format to prevent the author’s server from crashing. Download it, unpack and open grokking-bitcoin/index.html in a web browser.

  2. Grokking Bitcoin

  3. Grokking Bitcoin

Module 3: Bitcoin and the future of money

  • Read

  • as a technical reference textbook

  • as a technical reference textbook for the lightning network

  • by Will Clark

  • Ask questions and find answers at

  • Fun and insightful documentaries on Bitcoin:

Designer Track

Module 2: Mastering Bitcoin

Module 3: Bitcoin, open-source design and the future of money

  • Fun and insightful documentaries on Bitcoin:

Module 1: Understanding Money by Murray Rothbard - read chapters I, II, III.1 and III.2 for a high level history and understanding of money.

- chapters 1, 2

- chapters 1,2,3

Read

Study guide - Getting Started - Designing Bitcoin products - Onboarding - Private Key Management - Payments - Case Studies

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What has Government Done to Our Money
HTML
Zip
GitHub
Video Lectures
Lecture Slides
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Set up a Bitcoin wallet, receive and send bitcoins, and explore the Bitcoin blockchain using bitcoin-cli
Run a full node
Bitcoin Whitepaper
Lightning Network Summary
Mastering Bitcoin
Mastering Lightning
Lightning Network resources
Onboarding to Bitcoin Core
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/
Hard Money Film
Bitcoin is Generational Wealth
This Machine Greens
The many rabbit-holes of Bitcoin
An exhaustive list of Bitcoin information
What has Government Done to Our Money
Mastering Bitcoin
Mastering the Lightning Network
Additional Lightning Network resources
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
bitcoin.design
Open source design
Hard Money Film
Bitcoin is Generational Wealth
This Machine Greens
The many rabbit-holes of Bitcoin
An exhaustive list of Bitcoin information
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