*https://medium.com/@oneofthemanymatts/getting-up-to-speed-on-ethereum-63ed28821bbe*
one of the many matts, August 2017
Go from zero to 💯 without all the nonsense.
Note: this article was written 1 year ago. It is very much still accurate and worth reading, and I encourage that, but be aware that the landscape has changed (it’s been 10 years in crypto-time 😂).
You should read this blog post if:
Prerequisites:
Note: you don’t need to read the whitepapers, but you need to understand them. But it turns out that reading them is the fastest way to understand them. 😉
I recommend reading the entirety of this post, absorbing the contents at a high level, and then diving into each link individually, over the course of a few days.