S3:E3 - What is cryptocurrency? (Preethi Kasireddy)

What is bitcoin? How do cryptocurrencies work? What is the blockchain? Preethi Kasireddy, a blockchain engineer, gives us a gentle introduction to the world of digital currencies. She walks us through how it all works, what developers should care about, and how she transitioned from a career in finance to being a blockchain engineer.

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• Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
• Bitcoin
• Ethereum
• Satoshi Nakamoto's paper on Bitcoin
• Satoshi Nakamoto (author of Bitcoin paper)
• Solidity
• Ethereum white paper
• How does Ehterium work anyway? (Preethi's blog post)
• Ethereum docs
• Hack Reactor
• Coinbase
• Codeland Conf
• Codeland 2019

Preethi Kasireddy

Preethi Kasireddy is a Blockchain Engineer who recently made her way from San Francisco to Los Angeles. She was previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a banker at Goldman Sachs, and most recently a software engineer at Coinbase. She is currently the Founder & CEO of Schelling, a new blockchain startup.