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Ask HN: How to Get into Crypto as a Programmer?

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What's the best way for someone technical to start contributing in cryptocurrency? I come from a systems background.

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Join an eth global hackathon and find a team to jam with.

http://ethglobal.co/

Play with solidity, deploy toys to test nets, tuna local node.

https://solidity-by-example.org/

https://eth-brownie.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

That’s if you are interested in contract/transaction layers. If you are more interested in the main chain then look into go-ethereum or erigon clients.

Cadcad is also a popular for playing with systems design/modelling for crypto projects https://cadcad.org/

Be careful, you're about to be berated for using "Crypto" in reference to Cryptocurrency instead of Cryptography :)

This. In a programming context, "crypto" always refers to cryptography.

HN user zoenolan posted this in another thread, with some great resources particularly focused on Solidity (Ethereum): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337686

Try gitcoin.co, you may start off working(earning) and learning from there.

Many crypto companies are hiring due having more money from the recent bull run. I suggest you check for job offerings and go through the "What you need to know" etc. sections and then try to learn about it

Assuming cryptocurrency, I looked into this and concluded that learning Solidity would be what I venture into.

I’m sure if you worked in a crypto firm you’d learn very quickly compared to on your own

https://www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com/

The best advice about cryptography also happens to work for cryptocurrency

Never roll your own.

Buy some, cold wallet it, forget about it.

What wallet do you rexommend

Buy Cardano (https://cardano.org) using a Daedalus wallet (https://daedaluswallet.io/) and delegate your holdings to a stake pool like Adadog [ADOG1] (https://adadog.io). Staking helps build the Cardano eco-system, which as of later today will also be capable of doing smart contracts.

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