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 Shill me your best resources for learning about bitcoin on a technical level 
 “Mastering Bitcoin”

“Learn Me A Bitcoin”

They are all here….

https://www.welikethecoin.com/ 
 Nostr 
 Attending your local BitDevs meetup 
 If you have or are willing to learn basic python skills, Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song is amazing. Literally a $4000 course in a $40 book.  
 Also the booknis free on Github.  
 That sounds great 
 The book, quite literally, walks you through all the high school math necessary to implenent the core cryptographic components of bitcoin. You just have to know basic python or buy a pyhton beginner book. It's the easiest, most intellectually accessible programming language on earth. I have taken Jimmy's paid course, and helped contribute code corrections to the exercises. The book contaims incredible value.  
 This is what I found useful. In 2 days you get a gist of what the math and code simplistically is: http://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/