Topic: Getting Started With Contributing to Bitcoin (Read 760 times)
From my personal experience, starting with adding unit-testing would help the best. It will also make it more likely you will see your PR get approved.
The Documentation on Bitcoin.org is helpful.
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-documentation
Also there is this book by Paul Huang called "A Dissection of Bitcoin", but i only skimmed through, so a second opinion would be appreciated. It is not up to date as it works trough the original Bitcoin code, but i hope it is worth the time (as i want to read it myself once i have time for it).
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-documentation
Also there is this book by Paul Huang called "A Dissection of Bitcoin", but i only skimmed through, so a second opinion would be appreciated. It is not up to date as it works trough the original Bitcoin code, but i hope it is worth the time (as i want to read it myself once i have time for it).
A great place to start is with the code itself:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
Downloading it, reading it, and playing with it. For many, looking at code is worth 1000s of man pages.
Also check out:
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-coding-tutorials-1691123
https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
Yes I should definitely read or skim through the code, but there is a lot of it to get through.https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
Downloading it, reading it, and playing with it. For many, looking at code is worth 1000s of man pages.
Also check out:
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-coding-tutorials-1691123
https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
Thanks for the Coursera link too, that seems really helpful.
A great place to start is with the code itself:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
Downloading it, reading it, and playing with it. For many, looking at code is worth 1000s of man pages.
Also check out:
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-coding-tutorials-1691123
https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
Downloading it, reading it, and playing with it. For many, looking at code is worth 1000s of man pages.
Also check out:
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-coding-tutorials-1691123
https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
Hi all, I have been fascinated with Bitcoin for some now and have been collecting/spending them for a while too.
I now want to start developing and contributing to the Bitcoin software, but I don't really know where to start. I have used C++ for some time now and feel proficient with it however I know very little about networking and cryptography.
I've read the Bitcoin whitepaper but I still don't feel confident in my abilities, can somebody point me in the right direction? (Books, papers, ...)
Thanks
I now want to start developing and contributing to the Bitcoin software, but I don't really know where to start. I have used C++ for some time now and feel proficient with it however I know very little about networking and cryptography.
I've read the Bitcoin whitepaper but I still don't feel confident in my abilities, can somebody point me in the right direction? (Books, papers, ...)
Thanks
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