How do I become a Bitcoin/Blockchain Expert

[dyydxx]

 I am currently an economics major and have zero experience is programming or software development or network security. If I wanted to be an expert in blockchain technology with the ultimate goal of creating a blockchain unicorn sometime down the line, how does one chart the course?

[mocacinno]

I am currently an economics major and have zero experience is programming or software development or network security. If I wanted to be an expert in blockchain technology with the ultimate goal of creating a blockchain unicorn sometime down the line, how does one chart the course?

I suppose by reading satoshi's whitepaper¹, then browse the bitcoin wiki² and this forum³... Maybe by cloning an altcoin and creating your own alt just to learn the inner workings

references:
1) https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
2) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
3) https://bitcointalk.org

[eternalgloom]

There are a few courses available on Udemy, but I can't comment on the quality of them and I'm not sure if any of them really cover the inner workings of Bitcoin and the blockchain.
Take a look here:
https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?ref=home&src=ukw&q=bitcoin&lang=en

[7788bitcoin]

I think you might need to start catching up on the math behind the cryptography as well such as SHA256, RIPEMD etc.

[zuggu-1]

I am currently an economics major and have zero experience is programming or software development or network security. If I wanted to be an expert in blockchain technology with the ultimate goal of creating a blockchain unicorn sometime down the line, how does one chart the course?

i have a useful documentation for your request, some courses & ebooks:

• Coursera - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (2016) 12 hours
• Introduction to Bitcoin and Decentralized Technology  Duration: 3.5 Hours
• The Bitcoin Basics Duration: 7 Hours
• The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency 356 pages | EPUB/PDF/MOBI
• Bitcoin and Mobile Payments: Constructing a European Union Framework 314 pages | pdf

PM me if interested

[dyydxx]

I'm not expert in bitcoin/blockchain, but i think at least you should learn about these :
1. Concept of blockchain : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_(database)
2. Satoshi's white paper : https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
3. How other company/people use bitcoin for their business.
4. Maybe also learn about basic programming as well or at least programming local.

This forum, bitcoin wiki and some altcoin idea should help you as well

Thank you and thanks to all that have contributed prior. I realize i do have my work cut out for me. If I were to dedicate about 10 hours daily, 5 days weekly for this quest, when in a reasonable amount of time can I master all these learning. Also, is there something like a blockchain university or something, or a certification. How would I gain industry credibility?

[raphma]

I'm not expert in bitcoin/blockchain, but i think at least you should learn about these :
1. Concept of blockchain : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_(database)
2. Satoshi's white paper : https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
3. How other company/people use bitcoin for their business.
4. Maybe also learn about basic programming as well or at least programming local.

This forum, bitcoin wiki and some altcoin idea should help you as well

Thank you and thanks to all that have contributed prior. I realize i do have my work cut out for me. If I were to dedicate about 10 hours daily, 5 days weekly for this quest, when in a reasonable amount of time can I master all these learning. Also, is there something like a blockchain university or something, or a certification. How would I gain industry credibility?

technology is changing constantly, you will always have something to learn.
and the time needed to become a dev, specially a good one, depends on you. there are people who learn really fast and people who need more time so that depends.

specific certification i never saw, if you want credibility you will need to show some work done, but of course a graduation in this area(IT) is a plus and certification in correlated areas are good too(like a certification in the aimed programming language).

[Digitalbitcoin]

I am currently an economics major and have zero experience is programming or software development or network security. If I wanted to be an expert in blockchain technology with the ultimate goal of creating a blockchain unicorn sometime down the line, how does one chart the course?

Quite stumbling question!

Actually blockchain and bitcoin are very different things.

Blockchain is a technology which is used to make first invention and revolution in form of Bitcoin with help of cryptography.

[dyydxx]

I'm not expert in bitcoin/blockchain, but i think at least you should learn about these :
1. Concept of blockchain : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_(database)
2. Satoshi's white paper : https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
3. How other company/people use bitcoin for their business.
4. Maybe also learn about basic programming as well or at least programming local.

This forum, bitcoin wiki and some altcoin idea should help you as well

Thank you and thanks to all that have contributed prior. I realize i do have my work cut out for me. If I were to dedicate about 10 hours daily, 5 days weekly for this quest, when in a reasonable amount of time can I master all these learning. Also, is there something like a blockchain university or something, or a certification. How would I gain industry credibility?

technology is changing constantly, you will always have something to learn.
and the time needed to become a dev, specially a good one, depends on you. there are people who learn really fast and people who need more time so that depends.

specific certification i never saw, if you want credibility you will need to show some work done, but of course a graduation in this area(IT) is a plus and certification in correlated areas are good too(like a certification in the aimed programming language).

can you pls put a time line. let's say i'm a reasonable fast learner how long in months? being a developer would definitely mean i'm at least conversant with programming right

[achow101]

Read the guide, reference, and examples from https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-documentation. These go extremely in depth into the inner workings of Bitcoin and work with everything on the byte level showing you exactly what each byte of every data structure is.

[gentlemand]

How's your management skills? You don't need to be a tech genius. All you have to do is recruit the right people. There are plenty of people who know a lot who'll never have the initiative to create a business.

[dyydxx]

How's your management skills? You don't need to be a tech genius. All you have to do is recruit the right people. There are plenty of people who know a lot who'll never have the initiative to create a business.

This sounds nice but won't at least a fundamental knowledge be necessary.

[~Bitcoin~]

First you have to go through what actually cryptography is and than go through what is inside blockchain technology. How bitcoin ledger is maintained, how network is secured with nodes worldwide, how mining works, meaning of POW, POS etc are few terms and systems you have to learn first before you learn programing behind blockchain.

[gentlemand]

This sounds nice but won't at least a fundamental knowledge be necessary.

Yes. An overview of its capabilities is important but no one person can ever create a unicorn from scratch. Sniff out some possibilities, check whether it's achievable with the right people and away you go.

[entrop-x]

If I can help, I'm doing consultancy in several thing, amongst which cryptography and security, and I'm in the process of setting up a web site.

http://entrop-x.com/index.php/en/

There's much more than what I managed to put up there, but it can be of some help. 

[izanagi narukami]

There are many way , let see if you are interest on hardware , you can try to visit hardware detail on this forum or
Maybe you can check out https://www.blockchain.com/careers/
You will see some requirement / skill that may fit to you , you can try to send your portofolio if you want to get accept.

[skylighters]

to become "expert" you have to use bitcoins for a long time, so you will know a lot about bitcoins, how they work and so on, so then you will be expert

[Digitalbitcoin]

to become "expert" you have to use bitcoins for a long time, so you will know a lot about bitcoins, how they work and so on, so then you will be expert

Right But just use of bitcoin cannot educate that much as already existence of bitcoin have much more higher than it.

Firstly have understand basic about bitcoin as what is bitcoin ?

How they invented ?

How they generated ?
How to use then ?
What are possibilities ?
What are benefits ?

What are drawbacks ?
What is security ?
What are future and features etc... and much more.

After getting such information one must have to be able to believe in it. And after that person can become master.
But its not an easy process. It could take long time.

[Tyrantt]

I am currently an economics major and have zero experience is programming or software development or network security. If I wanted to be an expert in blockchain technology with the ultimate goal of creating a blockchain unicorn sometime down the line, how does one chart the course?

There are a lot of videos on youtube that can help you out if you don't want to bother reading atm.

[crairezx20]

It takes a long to to become an expert in blockchain/bitcoin but if you are very active here you can learn a lot in bitcoin also in blockchain just always start a thread about it and become expert someday..