Your Crypto Guide For Beginners & Veterans

Jonathan Kim
Blockchain@SCU
Published in
2 min readApr 18, 2022

It wasn’t that long ago when I first entered the crypto world. Over several years I slowly built up my knowledge and now I want to share some of the best resources I’ve found. These links are Youtube videos and articles separated into beginner, medium, and hard. The bold links are “highly recommended”.

The underlined list below are all links, enjoy!

Beginners Just Getting Started:

  1. Blockchain 101 A Visual Demo Video (Recommend watching in 1.25x speed)
  2. Blockchain 101 Public/Private Keys and Signing Video (Recommend watching in 1.25x speed)
  3. What Is Ethereum?
  4. Another Video About Ethereum

Getting Warmed Up:

  1. But How Does Bitcoin Actually Work?
  2. Measuring Decentralization, Is Your Crypto Decentralized?
  3. What Is Yield Farming?
  4. Proof Of Work vs. Proof Of Stake
  5. What Is Staking
  6. Stable Coins
  7. Everything About Liquidity Pools
  8. More Details On How Liquidity Pools Work
  9. Smart Contracts
  10. Zero-Knowledge Proofs

For Knowledgable Folks:

  1. The Subpriming Of Bitcoin Video (For Finance People)
  2. Ethereum 2.0 Upgrades Explained — Sharding, Beacon Chain, Proof of Stake
  3. Intro To Solidity Programing Language: Ethereum Blockchain Developer Tutorial
  4. How To Code Your First Ethereum Smart Contract

In reality, this is all just scratching the surface of the crypto world. For something more in-depth and looking at the bigger picture I’d recommend these videos.

  1. The Real Future Of NFTs with Punk 6529
  2. Crypto’s Role In Macroeconomics
  3. Vitalik Buterin Interview

Hope these were useful to somebody. If you loved them or would like to add more links please let me know! If you think these are all useless please also let me know!

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