Would you like to become a Certified Bitcoin Professional?

[Ahiaba]

What is the need for the certification as a professional Bitcoin price what ever you call it. Is there any employers demanding for such certificate? It is better for you look for something else productive doing instead of you looking for professional certificate.

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[buwaytress]

Should Google the sample tests of some of these CBE (certified blockchain expert) programmes. Hilarious questions. Certified Bitcoin Professional's new to me though.

@gentlemand, better patent that cert.

certificates are meaningless..
portfolio of experience is everything.

take for instance Andreas Antonopoulos's fame. that did not rise due to certification. that rose due to a portfolio of good open dialog presentations and speaches

They're not entirely meaningless but in this context, spot on. I can't help but shill Antonopoulos every time he's brought up. His attitude is great, no trumpeting his knowledge yet no false modesty, and I keep returning to his writings (or his lectures in writing, rather) and they're as helpful as when I first came across them.

This guy had no certification yet he's still doing lectures in the only decent academic course available for blockchain at University of Nicosia.

[WeHODLed]

Thanks everyone for replying! Not exactly what I had expected :-) but thanks anyway. I do realize it is not welcomed with a lot of enthusiasm by everyone, and I do understand your point of view. But please, understand mine:

- I'm relatively new to crypto, I want to / still have to learn a lot
- I see a study group, a wing man, a buddy, call it what you want, as highly and mutually beneficial: learning something new in a (small) group goes a lot faster
- I also want to work in crypto eventually and this will help me "sell myself": a certification by a 'consortium' is better than no certificate at all; it will look good on my CV
- I don't intend to stop here, I intend to get more certificates (Andreas is working with the university of Nicosia, he retweeted something about a course today)
- price is still doable; the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme on the other side, that's expensive (like $2k IIRC)

So please guys, I'm looking for someone to study with me. I'm not looking for a debate on certification. You're right to some extent, but that's another thread...

[ASHLIUSZ]

As each and every activity relative to cryptocurrency happens through the internet, there isn't any need to one become a certified bitcoin professional. You should have the knowledge to understand the market as well to grow through it. It can be of a developer, user, trader or whatever might be, it doesn't require any certification.

[gentlemand]

Thanks everyone for replying! Not exactly what I had expected :-) but thanks anyway. I do realize it is not welcomed with a lot of enthusiasm by everyone, and I do understand your point of view. But please, understand mine:

- I'm relatively new to crypto, I want to / still have to learn a lot
- I see a study group, a wing man, a buddy, call it what you want, as highly and mutually beneficial: learning something new in a (small) group goes a lot faster
- I also want to work in crypto eventually and this will help me "sell myself": a certification by a 'consortium' is better than no certificate at all; it will look good on my CV
- I don't intend to stop here, I intend to get more certificates (Andreas is working with the university of Nicosia, he retweeted something about a course today)
- price is still doable; the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme on the other side, that's expensive (like $2k IIRC)

So please guys, I'm looking for someone to study with me. I'm not looking for a debate on certification. You're right to some extent, but that's another thread...

What you're writing makes sense but the way to get crypto work will be by coming up with cool stuff from the things you've learnt along the way. It's free and accessible to all.

The type of people who know enough to employ you will be just as sceptical and mystified as us lot if you showed them your wee certificate.

If that $150-200 or whatever isn't a lot of money to you then go for it and do it for yourself. If the cost is going to make your life harder than it needs to be then I'd think again. Other than your own satisfaction and pleasure I don't think it'll make any difference for your actual prospects.

There will be free courses from more reputable places. There's one put together by the University of California, Berkeley - https://www.edx.org/course/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies  that's free but charges if you want some form of certification.

Several top places offer courses here - https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=bitcoin

If I were you I'd give it a few days or weeks of sucking up quality resources that are free and then have a think. This is one of many good places to kick off with - https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html

[WeHODLed]

What you're writing makes sense but the way to get crypto work will be by coming up with cool stuff from the things you've learnt along the way. It's free and accessible to all.

The type of people who know enough to employ you will be just as sceptical and mystified as us lot if you showed them your wee certificate.

If that $150-200 or whatever isn't a lot of money to you then go for it and do it for yourself. If the cost is going to make your life harder than it needs to be then I'd think again. Other than your own satisfaction and pleasure I don't think it'll make any difference for your actual prospects.

There will be free courses from more reputable places. There's one put together by the University of California, Berkeley - https://www.edx.org/course/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies  that's free but charges if you want some form of certification.

Several top places offer courses here - https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=bitcoin

If I were you I'd give it a few days or weeks of sucking up quality resources that are free and then have a think. This is one of many good places to kick off with - https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html

Wow, that is very interesting. Thank you, @gentlemand!


Now if someone is interested in forming a study group, I'm still all ears!

[muslol67]

- I'm relatively new to crypto, I want to / still have to learn a lot

It is OK that you are newbie. I am sure you can learn anything here if you really want.

- I see a study group, a wing man, a buddy, call it what you want, as highly and mutually beneficial: learning something new in a (small) group goes a lot faster

They are mostly scammers. Watch out! It maybe dangerous.

- I also want to work in crypto eventually and this will help me "sell myself": a certification by a 'consortium' is better than no certificate at all; it will look good on my CV

As I said before, there is no platform that you can give you a certificate. Bitcoin and most of cryptocurrencies are decentralized. So there will be no cerfiticate thing ever officialy.

- I don't intend to stop here, I intend to get more certificates (Andreas is working with the university of Nicosia, he retweeted something about a course today)

I hope you won't but you possibly will be regret with this decision. Sooner or later someone will fool you. They will take your money and give nothing to you. I assure you that you can learn anything here!!! Just ask it and expert will answer to you. This forum full of helpfull people.

[Ziskinberg]

I didn't quite understand. By which authority can they issue such a certificate? Who does this Bitcoin Professional give to the class? It's kind of silly to me ...

I also think that way, there's no such thing like the OP says.

It actually looks cool since you are professional but that's not how you gauge your success in crypto, I don't mind not being called professional as long as I am profitable, I feel being simple and profitable looks better than having a certificate that tells you you are good but only good in papers.

Sorry bro 

[Jating]

Now if someone is interested in forming a study group, I'm still all ears!

I'm not sure if there will be someone out there who is interested though. Mostly people here are doing lots of trading from the background and we all know that trading takes a lot of time (at least in my case).

But good luck though, I have nothing against your intentions, but maybe most of us here are self-taught and learn through all the years reading and playing around in this community. 

[muslol67]

What you're writing makes sense but the way to get crypto work will be by coming up with cool stuff from the things you've learnt along the way. It's free and accessible to all.

The type of people who know enough to employ you will be just as sceptical and mystified as us lot if you showed them your wee certificate.

If that $150-200 or whatever isn't a lot of money to you then go for it and do it for yourself. If the cost is going to make your life harder than it needs to be then I'd think again. Other than your own satisfaction and pleasure I don't think it'll make any difference for your actual prospects.

There will be free courses from more reputable places. There's one put together by the University of California, Berkeley - https://www.edx.org/course/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies  that's free but charges if you want some form of certification.

Several top places offer courses here - https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=bitcoin

If I were you I'd give it a few days or weeks of sucking up quality resources that are free and then have a think. This is one of many good places to kick off with - https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html

Wow, that is very interesting. Thank you, @gentlemand!


Now if someone is interested in forming a study group, I'm still all ears!

I can't understand also these ones. You are thinking if you create a group and get people together (mostly all of them has under 0,05 BTC) then you can make a difference. But you can't realize everyone in that group only thinks profit and know nothing. Please just use this forum and ask some question, learn in here and I assure you that you will be ready for everything soon. Don't forget, first message about Bitcoin has created in this forum by Satoshi Nakamoto. This forum has a historical experiment already. You should only want to learn.

[BitBustah]

This is a complete scam, no one has the authority to claim someone is a certified bitcoin professional.  If you want a certificate, just create a fake one and put it on your wall if that will somehow lend credibility to yourself.

[wxa7115]

I didn't quite understand. By which authority can they issue such a certificate? Who does this Bitcoin Professional give to the class? It's kind of silly to me ...

I agree, the point of bitcoin is to be decentralized and yet it seems people are unable to leave behind the old habits of letting someone tell them what to do, if you want to know about bitcoin then read the bitcoin whitepaper written by satoshi himself, his comments, learn how to code and read the development and technical subforum and you will learn more than what any course will teach you and the best part is that you can obtain all this knowledge for free.

In the best scenario the people giving this course know about bitcoin but they do not want to give their time away for free, in the worst scenario this is nothing more than a scam like the ones we see in the forum all the time.

[kryptqnick]

Hi, I'd like to become a "Certified Bitcoin Professional":
https://cryptoconsortium.org/certifications/CBP

But I've been putting it off, so I thought I'd try to find someone to take it with me. The idea is to study for the exam together (the idea is *not* to take the exam together; just study for it). I can put in 1 to 2 hours a day.

Looks like there are 33 topics so it'll take 1 to 2 months to study (just a rough estimate).

Anyone up for this?

Wow, I have never heard of these certificates and the company that issues them but they have very convincing names in the board of directors! The course is really cheap if the only thing one has to pay is the application fee and examination fee. It's probably too technical for me, though, and I am almost sure I won't be able to spend 2 years on this since I have another priority, but it's nice trying to organize study groups related to Bitcoin knowledge!
Taking another look at it, though, I don't understand whether there's a platform where one gradually learns everything required to pass the final exam.

This is a complete scam, no one has the authority to claim someone is a certified bitcoin professional.  If you want a certificate, just create a fake one and put it on your wall if that will somehow lend credibility to yourself.

If it's true that the people who are mentioned on the website are responsible for these certificates, I would not call it scam. It might be the case, though, that these people are completely unaware of their names being used by some random people.

[Reid]

I didn't quite understand. By which authority can they issue such a certificate? Who does this Bitcoin Professional give to the class? It's kind of silly to me ...

Merits for good questions.

Perhaps Satoshi will be there to be able to address the certificate to them.  
I may want to buy a ticket to attend the ceremony.

Please do post the information to when the certificate will be given so that I could see my idol for the first time in my life and maybe the last too.  

[Teawhalee]

I think this will be a good opportunity. I would really love to do this and make use of this opportunity to become a CerTidied bitcoin Professional. This will really help me to boost my evangelism about bitcoin in my society and my country at large.

[muslol67]

I didn't quite understand. By which authority can they issue such a certificate? Who does this Bitcoin Professional give to the class? It's kind of silly to me ...

Merits for good questions.

Perhaps Satoshi will be there to be able to address the certificate to them.  
I may want to buy a ticket to attend the ceremony.

Please do post the information to when the certificate will be given so that I could see my idol for the first time in my life and maybe the last too.  

Actually, the question is not important. I'm angry with these people because they're trying to fool people. Usually newbies do this kind of training, groups, etc. they believe that they can make money by the way.

[kaya11]

Hi, I'd like to become a "Certified Bitcoin Professional":
https://cryptoconsortium.org/certifications/CBP

But I've been putting it off, so I thought I'd try to find someone to take it with me. The idea is to study for the exam together (the idea is *not* to take the exam together; just study for it). I can put in 1 to 2 hours a day.

Looks like there are 33 topics so it'll take 1 to 2 months to study (just a rough estimate).

Anyone up for this?

Why don't you just go to Bitcoin Core development team and learn from them or just simply follow satoshi nakamoto's account here and you will find a lot of knowledge reading his post. Rather than gaining certificates out of random guys out there.

[BrewMaster]

Thanks everyone for replying! Not exactly what I had expected :-) but thanks anyway. I do realize it is not welcomed with a lot of enthusiasm by everyone, and I do understand your point of view. But please, understand mine:

- I'm relatively new to crypto, I want to / still have to learn a lot
- I see a study group, a wing man, a buddy, call it what you want, as highly and mutually beneficial: learning something new in a (small) group goes a lot faster
- I also want to work in crypto eventually and this will help me "sell myself": a certification by a 'consortium' is better than no certificate at all; it will look good on my CV
- I don't intend to stop here, I intend to get more certificates (Andreas is working with the university of Nicosia, he retweeted something about a course today)
- price is still doable; the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme on the other side, that's expensive (like $2k IIRC)

So please guys, I'm looking for someone to study with me. I'm not looking for a debate on certification. You're right to some extent, but that's another thread...

you have to keep in mind that this is all new for everyone including those teaching this stuff no matter where they come from, how much it costs and what certificate they give you. this may be my self-taught-mentality talking but i prefer learning more about bitcoin on my own. and there are enough resources out there that are actually good which you can start from.
i myself learned most things from A.A.'s book mastering bitcoin, bitcoin wiki, developer's reference, stackoverflow and this forum.

if you want to "work" eventually you must have some sort of actual contribution, have coded, some work experience,... of course a certificate is good but if for example we are giving things rate from 1 to 100 the certificate adds 1 point while having a code for instance on github is 50 to 100 depending on what it is .

[cizatext]

I believe you will find somebody in the forum ready to take the study with you, but I Believe since bitcoin is a new technology institutions that are ready to admit students are few and restricted to some regions.

[Mux@]

Why a certificate? I don't understand! If you know this yourself, why do you need a certificate? If you need a certificate for your employer, it may make sense to get it. But if it is necessary only that it was dusty on a wall, then I do not advise to spend money on it. It is unlikely that you will learn something new during training...