Knowing everything in depth is not a wrong thing. If your time permits even share your understanding here.
But we do not need to be technical experts to use bitcoin. It's simple to use even for layman.
Topic: What do I need to know to understand the inner workings of Bitcoin? (Read 1015 times)
October 01, 2015, 06:03:27 AM
September 28, 2015, 09:09:13 AM
there are many sites that can teach you very well about mining transactions etc but you need time to know detail deeply about the inner working of bitcoin.you can learn about inner working of bitcoin from some pdf files also according to my view learn from pdf is the best way because from pdf files you can learn about mining blockchaing etc anytime you want just download these pdf files and store to your pc mobile so that you can learn anytime by opening these pdf files from your pc or mobile
September 26, 2015, 05:45:56 AM
By inner workings I mean, the blockchain, mining, mining pools, transactions.
It just depends how technically skilled you are. If you are good in programming then you can start with the white paper, source code, etc..
If you are not good with the programming and you just got interested into Bitcoin, then you search for some easier to understand resources. There is so much stuff really. Just Google, go watch videos on YouTube, and read, read, and read.
Also ask questions here if you don't understand something.
September 26, 2015, 01:58:04 AM
you need patience, but most importantly you need to have the desire to learn, something that should be interesting for you, otherwise i would not bother
i remember i learned all the thing about mining(not in-deep stuff) because i loved mining, it was very fun to instamine every altcoin, when it was launched, waiting for the time of the launch and fire off your gpu
the same for early bitcoin mining, where i loved p2pool work, to bad it isn't working good anymore
i remember i learned all the thing about mining(not in-deep stuff) because i loved mining, it was very fun to instamine every altcoin, when it was launched, waiting for the time of the launch and fire off your gpu
the same for early bitcoin mining, where i loved p2pool work, to bad it isn't working good anymore
September 26, 2015, 01:56:47 AM
By inner workings I mean, the blockchain, mining, mining pools, transactions.
the best place is to start at the source on bitcoin.org and the wiki at en.bitcoin.it and then after reading all that, you can always ask your questions here or if they are more technological i think the Technical Support section is relevant to those questions: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0
September 26, 2015, 12:48:55 AM
Start with the bitcoin whitepaper bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf then check out the documentation on bitcoin.org. if you want some more in depth stuff, look at the code docs dev.visucore.com/bitcoin/doxygen/ and for a lot of detailed stuff, take a look at the actual source code Github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
Yeah, start at the source, Satoshi's white paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
September 25, 2015, 08:47:24 PM
you can just read important topics here in the forum, i think the forum is enough to teach you most of the knowledge you have to know 
September 25, 2015, 08:43:08 PM
Start with the bitcoin whitepaper bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf then check out the documentation on bitcoin.org. if you want some more in depth stuff, look at the code docs dev.visucore.com/bitcoin/doxygen/ and for a lot of detailed stuff, take a look at the actual source code Github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
September 25, 2015, 07:47:24 PM
By inner workings I mean, the blockchain, mining, mining pools, transactions.
Time. All information is publicly available, down to the source code if you want to go that deep. All you need is time to read and understand it.
I think this is the best way to learn. Read up on things as you come in contact with them while using Bitcoin.
If you want to try to learn it all at once (which is not something humans are really good at), you can read up the articles of the keywords you listed in the Bitcoin wiki that was linked above my post.
September 25, 2015, 03:53:14 PM
You can start reading the bitcoin wiki https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
It will help you to understand many things.
It will help you to understand many things.
September 25, 2015, 03:40:09 PM
By inner workings I mean, the blockchain, mining, mining pools, transactions.
A good place to start:
https://class.coursera.org/bitcointech-001
September 25, 2015, 03:39:46 PM
By inner workings I mean, the blockchain, mining, mining pools, transactions.
Time. All information is publicly available, down to the source code if you want to go that deep. All you need is time to read and understand it.
September 25, 2015, 03:32:19 PM
By inner workings I mean, the blockchain, mining, mining pools, transactions.
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