Full Node & Network Infrastructure Resources
Curated guides for running Bitcoin and Monero nodes — verification, sovereignty, and participating in decentralized networks.
15 curated nodes resources — ranked by Cypherpunk relevance, not trading hype.
Bitcoin Developer Documentation
Official developer guides covering blockchain, transactions, wallets, P2P networking, mining, payment processing, and full RPC API reference.
Chaincode Bitcoin Protocol Development Curriculum
Open-source syllabus and study groups for Bitcoin protocol development — from the whitepaper through soft forks, mempool policy, and peer-to-peer networking.
Chaincode Lightning Protocol Development Curriculum
Comprehensive open-source curriculum for Lightning Network protocol developers — channel management, routing, HTLCs, and implementation concepts.
Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line
Complete open-source course for Bitcoin programming via CLI — Bitcoin Core setup, wallets, raw transactions, multisig, PSBTs, and scripting. By Blockchain Commons.
Monero User Guides
Official guides for wallets, mining, nodes, Tor integration, view-only wallets, multisig, and blockchain import.
Run a Monero Node
Step-by-step guide to running your own Monero node for maximum privacy and network health, by privacy advocate Seth For Privacy.
Running a Full Node
Guide to running your own Bitcoin full node for sovereignty, validation, and network participation without trusting third parties.
Bitcoin Core Documentation
Official documentation for Bitcoin Core — installation, configuration, RPC, and contributing to the reference implementation.
Chaincode Bitcoin Protocol Development Seminar
Seven-part video seminar from Chaincode Residency covering Bitcoin protocol development — companion to the open-source Bitcoin curriculum.
Mastering Bitcoin (3rd Edition)
Andreas Antonopoulos' definitive technical guide to Bitcoin — keys, addresses, wallets, transactions, scripting, and network architecture.
Monero Docs
Comprehensive technical documentation — running nodes with systemd, Tor/I2P integration, wallet operations, and network configuration.
Sovereign Bitcoiner Crash Course
Free 5–10 week open-source course (CC0) on Bitcoin philosophy, running nodes, mining basics, multisig, and privacy — from Code Orange Dev School.
BTC Sessions (YouTube)
Practical Bitcoin tutorials — hardware wallets, nodes, Lightning, multisig, and self-custody for non-technical users.
Mempool.space
Open-source Bitcoin block explorer and mempool visualizer. Educational tool for understanding fees, blocks, and network activity.
Umbrel — Personal Server
Easy self-hosted Bitcoin node and app platform. Lower barrier to running your own infrastructure for sovereignty.