Reading Clubs Organised by Bitshala.

Reading clubs are technical group studies held in the Lounge voice channel of Bitshala Discord.

How to Think About the Economy

Description: Reading Session and Discussion of 'How to Think About the Economy' by Professor Per Bylund.

Material: How to Think About the Economy

Difficulty: Easy.

When: Every Wednesday, 8 PM. Starting 7th February, 2024.

Duration: 5 weeks (Estimated)

Schedule:

• Week 0: Introduction by Professor Per Bylund and QnA Session.
• Week 1: Part I - Economics; What Economics Is, Economic Theory, How to Do Economics.
• Week 2: Part II - Market; A Process, Not a Factory, Production and Enterpreneurship.
• Week 3: Part II - Market; Value, Money, and Price, Economic Calculation.
• Week 4: Part III - Intervention; Monetary Intervention, Regulatory Intervention. Conclusion.

Getting Deeper in Bitcoin Core

Description: In-depth reading club of Onboarding to Bitcoin Core chapters.

Material: Onboarding to Bitcoin Core

Difficulty: Hard.

When: Every Wednesday, 8 PM. (starting date TBD)

Duration: 8 weeks (Estimated).

Schedule:

• Week 0: Overview and Development Process
• Week 1: Architecture
• Week 2: Consensus and Validation
• Week 3: Wallet
• Week 4: P2P
• Week 5: Mempool
• Week 6: Scripts
• Week 7: RPC/ZMQ/REST + Appendix

Bitcoin Dev Philosophy

Description: Casual conversation of Developer's Philosophy for building on Bitcoin.

Material: Bitcoin development philosophy

Difficulty: Easy.

When: Every Wednesday, 8 PM. (starting date TBD)

Duration: 5 weeks.

Schedule:

• Week 0: Decentralization
• Week 1: Trustlessness + Privacy
• Week 2: Finite Supply and Upgrading
• Week 3: Adversarial Thinking and Open Source
• Week 4: When shit hits the fan + Appendix A

Optech Sunday Reading

Description: Weekly Optech read-through session.

Material: Latest Issue of Optech.

Difficulty: Moderate

Playlist:

Newsletter #281

Newsletter #283

When: Every Monday, 8:00 PM.

Bitcoin Whitepaper

Description: Technical Walkthrough of the Bitcoin Whitepaper on Genesis Block Day.

Material: Bitcoin Whitepaper

Difficulty: Easy to Moderate.

Link:

Genesis Block Day Special: Bitcoin Whitepaper Technical Walkthrough

When: Genesis Block Day(3rd January) and (soon)Whitepaper Day(31st October)

Duration: 1.5hrs.