So just zapping is bad?
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Haha no. It has its place imo, obviously better than just a like. Was more just joking about how I feel sometimes surfing the app liking things here and there, but not actually really contributing. I'm more of a group chat guy, but nostr is small enough rn that I interact more
I see you wanna learn more about sha256 and ECDSA etc (your bio). Me too! Are you versed in the cryptographic arts?
Not at all, but they seem fundamental to all of this. The cryptography is where I struggle to explain Bitcoin to friends. Youtube can only take me so far. I need to just buy a textbook and spend a weekend.
Ah, I see. I actually have no idea how sha256 works, but have this idea that it's super complicated and dry. May need to look into it more soon.
ECDSA on the other hand is pretty interesting. No expert by a long shot, but been learning recently. Always down to talk more on that stuff. Looking to better understand ring signatures at moment, and some peripheral related things.
What resources have you found to be most helpful?
Jimmy songs book does a great job on this, and much more other technical bitcoin stuff (pretty much all the low level components of how it runs are covered, and coded).
For more general and advanced underlying concepts, I really like the Moonmath Manual (free online), but it may go more into the math theory than most care for.
The rest is kind of scattered. I found a write up by waxwing called something like "02bpfs" (from zero to bulletproofs) really good, and full of references to more resources. It's a little advanced though, and I still need to read it again (never finished it completely in first place when I realized I should go back and reread; on my todo). But it's the direction I want to master more.
More recs would just be me listing things I have no business recommending at this stage. Hope that helps. TLDR, for the basic btc-specific understanding jimmy song best imo