jplaclau / bitcoin-foss-career-program

Launching January 2024

Start Your Career in Bitcoin FOSS

Acceptance into program

Technical challenges:

Bitcoin Core Test the Test

Curriculum

Text: Mastering Bitcoin 3rd Edition

Week 0: Prework

Read:

• Ch. 1 Introduction
• Ch. 2 How Bitcoin Works
• Ch. 3 Bitcoin Core: The Reference Implementation

Provided Infrastructure: Access mainnet RPC through proxy currently running at 34.172.95.104

Exercises:

• Bitcoin Core RPC Scavenger Hunt

Week 1: Cryptography

Read:

• Ch. 4 Keys and Addresses
• Ch. 5 Wallet Recovery
• Ch. 6 Transactions

Provided Infrastructure: We will host a custom signet miner node with a pre-generated blockchain full of UTXOs for wallet recovery and script challenges.

Exercises:

• Create a signet wallet
  • Part 1: Recover balance from chain

Week 2: Transactions

Read:

• Ch. 7 Authorization and Authentication
• Ch. 8 Digital Signatures
• Ch. 9 Transaction Fees

Extra tutorial: Transaction exercises

Exercises:

• Create a signet wallet
  • Send a multisig transaction

Week 3

Read:

• Ch. 10. The Bitcoin Network
• Ch. 11 The Blockchain
• Ch. 12 Mining and Consensus

Exercises TBA

Week 4

Read:

• Ch. 14 Second-Layer Applications
  • Optional sections (can be skipped):
    • Colored coins
    • Single-use seals
    • Pay-to-Contract
    • Client-side validation
    • RGB
    • Taproot Assets

Exercises:

• Lightning scavenger hunt
• Lightning route builder