Blockchain Commons has recently released two translations of our free, self-paced, "Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line" course, into Spanish and Portuguese:

Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line teaches about Bitcoin development starting with bitcoin-cli and moving on to using computer languages to access the RPC API. We’ve always intended that it provide a pathway for developers to join the broader Bitcoin ecosystem, and we’ve seen personal success toward that goal, with most of our international interns getting their start with our course, and with many of them having since found employment in the field.

Having more educated people in the field not only helps everyone looking for developers, but it also will make it that much easier for us to make the next big transition, such as the Taproot transition that we’re currently working on.

With 460 million native speakers of Spanish and 230 million native speakers of Portuguese, and with 29 different countries where one or both is an official language, we think these new translations will considerably widen the scope of Learning Bitcoin’s coverage and invite many new developers to work together with all of us on Bitcoin, using the international language of computer code. Of course, this year’s decision by El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency makes it even more obvious why these sorts of translations are important.

Here’s what’s next for Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line.

  1. Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line v3.0

Our current iteration of Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line is now a full year old, so we want to update it to talk about the newest Bitcoin work, including Taproot, Schnorr signatures, miniscript, and more. Our current outline for v3.0 is found here (though it’s likely to change some as we dive fully into the latest bitcoin-core releases):

https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/blob/master/TODO-30.md

We’d love your expertise on anything you think we’re missing, or getting wrong, for the v3.0 update. Please feel free to respond here or write us an issue, either telling us of any problems with the current course (including things that have just gotten out of date) or things that we should have in v3.0 that we’re not currently outlining.

https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/issues

  1. Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line Seminars

We are considering offering some brief, weekly seminars in 2022, looking at individual sections of Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line and answering questions. If this interests you, or you’d like to help support it, please let us know.

Thank you to everyone who worked on the translations of Learning Bitcoin: Ian Culp, Maxi Goyheneche, Said Rahal, César A. Vallero, and Javier Vargas for our Spanish translation; Namcios, Korea, Luke Pavsky, and hgrams for the Portuguese translation.

To continue this work, we are looking for monthly patronage to support Learning Bitcoin. If you think increasing the pool of Bitcoin developers is important, please consider becoming a patron of Blockchain Commons, and let us know it’s because of your interest in this course.

https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons

Thanks for your interest!

-- Christopher Allen