Socratic Seminar #7: Grokking Bitcoin

With Kalle Rosenbaum (@kallerosenbaum) presenting at London Bitcoin Devs next week we will host a Socratic Seminar on his book Grokking Bitcoin.

Agenda

What is a Socratic Seminar?

Introductions (for those who want to participate in discussion)

Bitcoin technical books (Mastering Bitcoin, Programming Bitcoin etc)

Code vs no code (What is the point of Bitcoin education?)

Foreword (David Harding)

https://github.com/kallerosenbaum/grokkingbitcoin/blob/8eb89b86f922e62f039b96730a4d72ebc9af123c/front-matter.adoc

Chapter 4 (Wallets and HD wallets on page 94)

https://github.com/kallerosenbaum/grokkingbitcoin/blob/master/ch04-wallets.adoc

Chapter 11 (Bitcoin upgrades) and how it informs us for what comes next with Taproot

https://github.com/kallerosenbaum/grokkingbitcoin/blob/master/ch11-bitcoin-upgrades.adoc

Appendix (Using bitcoin-cli)

https://github.com/kallerosenbaum/grokkingbitcoin/blob/8eb89b86f922e62f039b96730a4d72ebc9af123c/app1-bitcoin-cli.adoc

Wrap up and promote Kalle's talk next week at London Bitcoin Devs

Grokking Bitcoin is open source: https://github.com/kallerosenbaum/grokkingbitcoin

You can purchase a paper or pdf/Kindle copy from the Manning publishers here: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-bitcoin

For more details on Socratic Seminars see: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-want-to-learn-about-bitcoin-try-a-local-socratic-seminar

London Bitcoin Devs meetup with Kalle Rosenbaum (Wed 29th April): https://www.meetup.com/London-Bitcoin-Devs/events/267645078/