To start, let me mention I am a Software Engineer in Test, aka QA. I have been working on testing mobile apps and writing some automated tests for over 7 years.

Now, how does a QA end up involved in the world of Blockchain?

Was it through Bitcoin? or Trading? or any kind of crypto investment? Not even close. I have never been interested or involved in anything related to crypto. And I will tell you more I had never even heard the word Blockchain until the day I caught up with a good old friend.

You know those moments when you are speaking with someone about what has he/she been up to and mentions a few words you didn’t fully understand but you let him/her continue so that you don’t, both, interrupt or seem -for lack of a better expression- less smart? Well, that time I did actually ask and I must say that doing so, has changed the path and plans I had for my professional life.

So, once you discover you are interested by Blockchain, how do you even start learning about it?

Most relevant places to find and consume Blockchain material

From my experience, the best places to find and consume material about Blockchain are YouTube, like for most of things, and Twitter, yup, that place where in the last decade has lived a bunch of haters also has a growing community of blockchain enthusiasts which are constantly sharing knowledge and material, both in tweets and links to articles from multiple places.

So, after some time watching videos and following a few Twitter accounts I realized I had lots of noise on both my Youtube home and in my personal Twitter feed, so what did I do? I created a separate Twitter account to only follow and interact with Blockchain-related tweets and the same with Youtube, I created a new account where I would only watch only Blockchain things. And like that, I would be getting rid of lots of distractions in order to ease the findings in the topic.

After setting this up, you will little by little be finding the right and most popular Youtubers and Twitter accounts which will lead you to find the right path, the right places to start. How? You will start discovering what it is all about, and from those things you will start to do research about those that caught your attention, and those that made you slip a “wow” or a “Jesus! I don’t know anything about it but sounds quite interesting”.

And that’s just the beginning.