Plan
- [ ] Go through suggested readings and create flashcards
- [ ] Notes on suggested readings and grade suggested project on interests and affinity with my skills
- [ ] prepare questions for projects

## Readings
### Favorite pieces
- Ethereum in 30 minutes
- Ethereum Design Rationale
- Yellow Paper
- EIP-1
- Coding Languages and Repositories
- Systemic vs encapsulated complexity

### Ethereum Basics

- [x] Conceptual Overview https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/268/ethereum-block-architecture
- [x] Basic technical details of Ethereum Blockchain Protocol (Vitalik Buterin) https://youtu.be/gjwr-7PgpN8
- [x] Ethereum in 30 minutes (Vitalik Buterin) https://youtu.be/UihMqcj-cqc
- [x] [Ethereum Design Rationale](https://web.archive.org/web/20211121044757/https://ethereumbuilders.gitbooks.io/guide/content/en/design_rationale.html) is an older document describing design principles of Ethereum

### Yellow Paper

- [ ] Yellow Paper: https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf (accompanying cheat sheet: [Cheat sheet link](https://github.com/benjaminion/YellowPaper_CheatSheet/blob/master/YPCheatSheet.pdf))
- [x] Walkthrough of the Yellow paper: https://www.lucassaldanha.com/ethereum-yellow-paper-walkthrough-1/
- [x] An in-depth discussion of the Yellow Paper on Youtube: https://youtu.be/e84V1MxRlYs
- [x] Visual Guide to the Yellow Paper: https://takenobu-hs.github.io/downloads/ethereum_evm_illustrated.pdf

### Contributing to Ethereum Ecosystem

- [x] EIP-1 (i.e. how Ethereum Improvement Proposals Work): https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1
- [x] Coding Languages & Repositories: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/#clients

### EVM and Data Structures

- [x] Recursive Length Prefix: https://medium.com/coinmonks/data-structure-in-ethereum-episode-1-recursive-length-prefix-rlp-encoding-decoding-d1016832f919
- [x] Write Up on Hexary Trie by ftruzzi: https://gist.github.com/ftruzzi/fe6c6735dbbfafa4994985879254a871
- [x] EVM Opcodes: https://ethervm.io/
- [x] RLPx Transport Protocol (i.e. How nodes communicate): https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/master/rlpx.md
- [x] JSON-RPC Documentation(i.e How to interface with nodes): https://eth.wiki/json-rpc/API

### Proof of Stake

- [x] Overview: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms/pos/
- [x] Why Proof of Stake? (Vitalik Buterin): https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
- [x] The Merge: https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/merge/
- [x] LMD Ghost Fork Choice Algorithm: https://medium.com/@aditya.asgaonkar/bitwise-lmd-ghost-an-efficient-cbc-casper-fork-choice-rule-6db924e57d1f
- Anotated Beacon Chain Specification:
- [ ] Ben Edgington ETH2 book: https://eth2book.info/
- [ ] By Vitalik https://github.com/ethereum/annotated-spec/tree/master

### Current Research and EIPS

These are reference sites. Marked as known.

- [x] Research Forums: https://ethresear.ch/
- [x] Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians: https://ethereum-magicians.org/
- [x] EIPS: https://eips.ethereum.org/

### Scaling

- [x] Block Chain Scalability: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/23/scaling.html
- [x] Stateless Ethereum: https://blog.ethereum.org/2019/12/30/eth1x-files-state-of-stateless-ethereum/
- [ ] Kate Commitments: https://hackmd.io/yqfI6OPlRZizv9yPaD-8IQ?view#Background

### Sharding

- [ ] Overview: https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/shard-chains/
- [ ] Why Sharding? (Vitalik Buterin): https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/04/07/sharding.html

## Suggested projects notes
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