How to learn blockchain technology?

The most popular concept of the Spring Festival in 2018 should be the blockchain. From Baidu's Leitz Dog and NetEase Planet's Moments, to the block chain sleepless group fire at 3 o'clock, the big guys have entered the blockchain one after another. Understanding blockchain seems to have missed an era.

Here, some materials in the process of learning blockchain are indexed. Bitcoin knowledge focuses on the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper and "Mastering Bitcoin", blockchain technology and engineering applications, and IBM's Hyperledger series courses are recommended.

1. Goal

Bitcoin development history, mining and related applications
The underlying technology of blockchain, such as consensus algorithm, cryptography knowledge, etc.
Study Ethereum technology, understand ERC20, and be able to develop DAPP by yourself
Familiar with Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 architecture, understand its business process and design concept, related applications

2. Book Recommendations

Blockchain Technology Guide--Zou Jun
Vernacular Blockchain--Wen Yanzhu
Principle Design and Application of Blockchain--Yang Baohua
Mastering Bitcoin
Mastering Bitcoin Second Edition
A Guide to Blockchain Technology -- by yeasy
Fabric for Hyperledger source code analysis
Bitcoin White Paper: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Graphical Cryptography--Yuecheng Hao

3. Related courses

Stanford University Bitcoin Course

CS 251: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

IBM Open Source Classroom: Blockchain and HyperLedger Series

You can understand the concept of blockchain, popular blockchain application scenarios, master the HyperLedger community, architecture and internal structure, and be able to build a HyperLedger environment, or use the HyperLedger environment on IBM Bluemix to develop your own blockchain applications.

blockchain-and-hyperledger

IBM Open Source Classroom: Fabric Source Code Analysis

Fabric source code analysis

4. Learning Route

(1) Preliminary knowledge

A story tells you how Bitcoin works and how it works

what is blockchain

(2) Bitcoin

Bitcoin White Paper