Start Your Career in Bitcoin FOSS

Acceptance into program

Technical challenges:

Bitcoin Core Test the Test

Curriculum

Text: Mastering Bitcoin 3rd Edition

Week 0: Prework

Read:

  • Ch. 1 Introduction
  • Ch. 2 How Bitcoin Works
  • Ch. 3 Bitcoin Core: The Reference Implementation

Provided Infrastructure: Access mainnet RPC through proxy currently running at 34.172.95.104

Exercises:

Week 1: Cryptography

Read:

  • Ch. 4 Keys and Addresses
  • Ch. 5 Wallet Recovery
  • Ch. 6 Transactions

Provided Infrastructure: We will host a custom signet miner node with a pre-generated blockchain full of UTXOs for wallet recovery and script challenges.

Exercises:

Week 2: Transactions

Read:

  • Ch. 7 Authorization and Authentication
  • Ch. 8 Digital Signatures
  • Ch. 9 Transaction Fees

Extra tutorial: Transaction exercises

Exercises:

Week 3

Read:

  • Ch. 10. The Bitcoin Network
  • Ch. 11 The Blockchain
  • Ch. 12 Mining and Consensus

Exercises TBA

Week 4

Read:

  • Ch. 14 Second-Layer Applications
    • Optional sections (can be skipped):
      • Colored coins
      • Single-use seals
      • Pay-to-Contract
      • Client-side validation
      • RGB
      • Taproot Assets

Exercises: