How can you learn about blockchain by just watching domestic forums? You must go to famous foreign forums or media communities and browse them all. You must surf the Internet scientifically so that you can get in touch with the most cutting-edge technologies, concepts, and project developments. Let me highlight some recommendations below:
1) Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/
The famous old Bitcoin forum was established in 2009. In the early days, Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin, was active on this forum and had in-depth discussions with netizens on issues such as mining energy, Bitcoin network expansion, and block size. Before Satoshi Nakamoto retired, please see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php for a collection of all his speeches on Bitcointalk. action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts
2) Medium: https://medium.com/
The well-known social blogging platform, founded by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone in August 2012, allows users to share their stories through text and communicate with like-minded users. Search blockchain and you will find many in-depth articles. It is recommended to read more.
3) The blog of the famous venture capital institution A16Z: https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/
There are many articles about blockchain and cryptocurrency on it, which are very systematic. It is recommended that those with good English can learn systematically.
Update a16z’s latest encryption entrepreneurship course: Crypto Startup School – Andreessen Horowitz
There is a series of video courses above, which can be said to be the best entrepreneur education courses in the blockchain field. In the blockchain field, a16z has basically invested in the entire upstream and downstream tracks. I think it may become the YC in the blockchain field.
When the mobile Internet industry exploded, what YC did best was entrepreneur education, and then it became the most successful angel investment institution in history. I estimate that a16z will also be the most awesome investment institution in the future. Of course, they are also very awesome now.
Their partner Chris Dixon, who is mainly responsible for the blockchain and Web3 fields: https://x.com/cdixon You can also pay attention to it. He recently published a book that I think is worth reading:
I have been continuing to study their stuff, and I highly recommend everyone to take a serious look at it.
4) Ethereum Community: Home Page | ethereum.org
It is highly recommended to read more about the Ethereum community, there is a lot of knowledge about Ethereum. As a typical representative of the public chain, Ethereum deserves careful study by every enthusiast who pays attention to blockchain. I am personally very optimistic about the Ethereum ecosystem. Especially the current innovations in L2, compared to the group that entered the industry in 2017, the transfer efficiency and application ecology are simply much richer, and I am very optimistic about them.
5) Coindesk: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data
Their content and data reports are quite good. I must read them every quarter. For example, many of the research reports on this page are worth reading: https://www.coindesk.com/research
6) Recommend some good university courses:
Coursera has several free courses on blockchain. The quality is many times higher than those expensive and leek-cutting courses in China. For example: https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency?#syllabus opened by Princeton University
Search for others by yourself, there are also several on https://www.edx.org/.
If your English is not good, you can read "Blockchain and Encrypted Digital Currency" by teacher Luo Mei of Tsinghua University in China. It is a very good popular science course:
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency-Tsinghua University-Xuetang Online
I won’t talk about station B. You can find some by searching on your own.
7) Finally, I recommend some websites for viewing data:
First, a website to look at DApp (decentralized application) data: DappRadar – Ranked list of blockchain dapps
For example, those who are interested can take a look at the data and rankings of popular DeFi, NFT and other applications. However, DApp is still in its early stages, so you can continue to pay attention to the subsequent development trends.
Second, websites to view market data: Cryptocurrency Prices, Charts And Market Capitalizations | CoinMarketCap
This website has been in operation since 2013. It is a very old data platform. Compared with domestic market websites, I think it is much better in terms of data authenticity and experience. In 2020, Changpeng Zhao spent US$400 million to acquire this website, which is quite legendary.
Third, look at the website of the digital currency rich list (one of the interesting data): Top 100 Richest Bitcoin Addresses and Bitcoin distribution
I think the most interesting data on this website is its ranking on the rich list. Of course, it is mainly calculated based on the account amount of the currency-holding address. For example, in the chart below of the continuous number of BTC, the total number of addresses is close to 20 million, but more than 50% of the addresses hold only 0-0.001 BTC. If you own 0.1 BTC, you can be among the top 10% of the BTC rich list.
Fourth, add an important index tool called Bitcoin Ahr999 Index. When the index is lower than 0.45, it is a relative bottom, and you can feel free to buy the bottom. However, it is not recommended to copy all the funds at once. It is best to build a position in batches. Each time the price continues to dip, buy a little more to reduce the overall position cost. If you miss the period below 0.45, you can also make fixed investments within the range of 0.45 – 1.20, and you can make fixed investments on a daily or weekly basis.
With the Bitcoin Ahr999 Index, determining the relative bottom of a bear market is easy. Of course, if it is a more experienced analyst, combined with current macro data, etc., the judgment range of the relative bottom will be more accurate.
However, it is not that easy to judge the relative top of the bull market, and it is even more difficult to escape from the absolute top. Different analysts will have different expectations for the top of each bull market, but there is no doubt that it will exceed the previous high of the previous bull market.
Finally, the questioner mentioned a website for viewing projects. I recommend one: https://www.maxweb.red/
However, I would like to remind everyone that this circle is very deep. Don’t pay too much attention to those unknown projects. If you don’t know how to touch them, more than 99% of them are scammers and empty projects. If you focus on studying well-known projects such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and understand what’s inside, you will be much better than those who claim to be “blockchain experts” on the market.
The blockchain circle is too impetuous, and those who hope to settle down are those who truly like and recognize the long-term value of this new technology.
Recommend some good books on blockchain. If you are interested, you can read them.
