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Base58⛓️🔓: what classes do you wanna see next year? 📅

5365 sats \ 14 comments \ @niftynei 2 Dec 2023 tech

hey stackers, @niftynei here, head of instruction for Base58⛓️🔓

We’re working on getting our calendar of class offerings for next year ready and I just wanted to get a temperature check on what people want to know about bitcoin or lightning or ??? next year

What’s missing from your devucation?

online self paced options?
online cohort classes?
just good online manuals + books
in person experiences??

As a reminder, we’re an engineering school built on the bitcoin standard: our classes right now focus on hands on implementation work (mostly in python) for the bitcoin basics (transactions + crypto), lightning, and taproot.

classes that are on our radar to add:

wallets (descriptors/psbts/key mgmt/miniscript)
ordinals (taproot data, send ittt)
psbt mini course
how to nix
maybe a rust class if @niftynei ever gets her head wrapped around how it works
????

PS: we’re hoping to transition to a nonprofit org for next year too, so keep an eye out for opportunities to help fund scholarships etc soon 🔜

PPS: we’ve got a discord too https://discord.gg/TaQWQ8rkGV

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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 Dec 2023

online cohort classes

These are the next best thing to in person and scale better than in person. Things that I like to see for these:

online forum with classmates for async comms
- explicitly not a chat system which imo is semi-sync
once/twice per week sync video comms (broken into study groups)
weekly time commitment of max 8-16 hours
well developed quizzes and tests for student-evaluation (also allows the teacher to see how well they're teaching)

????

Things that might be missing from the list:

app layer course
a crypto/foss law class
privacy focused course
cryptography focused course
cypherpunk philosophy course

hey stackers, @niftynei here

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944 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury 3 Dec 2023

Online self-paced would be awesome, something like a frontendmasters except for btc stuff.

229 sats \ 3 replies \ @niftynei OP 3 Dec 2023

Ooh thanks. Love a good rec!

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 3 Dec 2023

FEM has much to teach the industry, I think. No affiliation, but a happy subscriber. They've got it largely figured out.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @niftynei OP 3 Dec 2023

what do you like about their model or way of teaching?

122 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 3 Dec 2023

The focus on actually building something, obviously.
They are mindful of organizing the pieces of things that matter: courses are divided into meaningful chunks that assemble a coherent set of elements. This is the hardest thing to do well, in my opinion. (Would be interesting to hear your thoughts on what are meaningful chunks in the btc ecosystem -- transactions is one, clearly. What are others?)
Nice interaction elements to support realistic learning, e.g., at relevant points the window will show a badge linking to relevant things in the syllabus, annotating what the lecturer just said, providing context, etc.

101 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 2 Dec 2023

I would be interested to explore more about how the advent of Generative AI would impact the further development of BTC and the Lightning Network, be it beneficial or detrimental

121 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 2 Dec 2023

If I were to take a course it would probably be on running a routing LN node.

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @niftynei OP 3 Dec 2023

You and me both 😹

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @stacker_rubble638 2 Dec 2023 freebie

Not classes, per se, but learning aids like...

Quizzes and knowledge assessments
Exercises to fix broken
Bitcoin and Lightning-themed trivia questions

111 sats \ 3 replies \ @Signal312 2 Dec 2023

Self custody basics for newbies.
Easy to digest.

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @niftynei OP 3 Dec 2023

Hmm have you seen the multisig video using sparrow i did with Area Bitcoin?

https://www.areabitcoin.co/courses/workshop-social-multisigs

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 3 Dec 2023

No, not yet. Is Social Multi Sig a widely-known concept, or is it a more recent innovation?

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @niftynei OP 3 Dec 2023

It's a Brazilianification of a term I like for mulitparty multisigs aka "collaborative multisig": where you and a group of people hold a set of keys.

If you're holding funds with friends or your family, it's 1000% the right way to help onboard more people, giving them some shared responsibility without full risk of funds lost if one party loses their keys.