Edit- made significant progress on the below. The boroughs below are no longer up to date. Offline for a while, maybe quite a while... In the zone and making it happen. Keep it chilled. Be back in a while.
There's undoubtedly some hardworking, big brains on Zapread. This idea was inspired by you...
As some of you may know by now, Sidewalk Bitcoin are in no way glory hunters. We are all about adoption and getting clear, authentic information about Bitcoin to people alongside our core business- Pop-up Bitcoin event stands, retailing FastBitcoins Vouchers and signing up merchants to deploy their own FastBitcoins Voucher Terminals, plus our shop, directory etc on our website. So... We are more than prepared to share this new project with anyone who wants to contribute. It could be a big one. Huge kudos could be gained if we do it correctly.
Brief
Create an interactive Bitcoin resource/wiki/explorer representing the entire Bitcoin ecosystem.
The resource should be live online and as a downloadable, interactive pdf
Working title - Map of the Bitcoin Labyrinth
From a very simple entry point, beginning with the simplest, most essential information, people using the resource should be able to venture deeper and deeper into the complexities of Bitcoin, through specific areas of interest.
Users should be able to navigate through the labyrinth, building layers of knowledge as they go.
On-chain and layer 2 protocols should be represented. There will inevitably be areas where information merges into mutual categories
Project should be colour coded for simplicity and as visual as possible for appeal, combining simplified jargon-free informational explanations, a glossary of definitions etc and including Bitcoin origins, ethos, legends, personalities etc to add humour and accessibility.
Below is an initial representation perhaps even starting point of the work we have done so far. Hopefully, with the above, the idea will be clear...
suffive to say, Bitcoin, based on the Blockchain with a depiction of the layer 2 protocols, branching into "Tier 1" level info. Each bubble when clicked will show further, more complex divisions/areas (2nd tier, 3rd tier etc. etc) of each category, eventually encompassing all areas/ concepts of the chosen category, all accompanied with appropriate info and anecdotes etc which are obviously not there yet.
Sidewalk will donate all of the rewards earned on Zapread to help finance any web costs etc I would however like all elements to be distributed as widely as possible when complete
I hope this is clear and some of you guys and gals will be inspired to contribute some of your time and skills to fulfill this project and bring what i feel would fill a huge gap to fruition. All kudos will be shared. I hereby relinquish all ownership of this concept and open it up to the Zapread community.
There has been no public discussion of this on any other forums. I would love for Zapread to enjoy maximum benefit from the project's success. Thank you in anticipation.
I have read 1 book (or half of it) which had a similar goal, I shared it before: the fuzzing book. This whole "I'll guide you trough this topic" thing is very hard to achieve, but very very powerful. If there was a good. interactive, multi route BTC and LN book, I wouldn't talk that much sh*t anymore. Jokes aside, I think it would really contribute to the BTC community.
Why not start by making some HQ informational posts, maybe a specialized group?
I actually wanted to ask for some resources before, because I don't know sh*t about LN/BTC.
You are correct, it is a challenge. I have never read a Bitcoin book, i'm a creative rather than a technologist and people/communication is my area of strength i guess, at least as far as Bitcoin goes. I learnt what i know through a combination of watching videos, often repeatedly and researching the individual bits and pieces to create a mental picture. My mind goes off in tangents too easily... I just end up apparently absent-mindlessly looking at words, turning pages, drifting off into imaginings and painting pictures in my head... I think i will end up reading now more though.
The challenge is indeed simplicity. I can see the structure needed in my minds eye (A kind of hierarchical structure in 3D) and i can simplify or distill concepts so eventually i'll get there.
Posting would come naturally from it, I think they would almost write themselves in some respects. at worst i will post a commentary here as i go along now it's public.
A good resource is 21 Lessons and i haven't even got through this yet myself. it's quite fun though'
I think already there's too much info on the "Bitcoin opening page. in essence it could be down to 3, Buying- Using- Storing and everything goes from there???
I'd like to quote one of the greatest humans alive: "simplicity is complicated".
Well, try it out, draw stuff, fill it out with simple notes, restructure it until you like it. Then you could give indivifual tasks like "explain what the seed is" and people could work on those tasks.
I suggest markdown and a github repo (with gitlab mirror?).
I really think someone has to do the design work first, if you're really into that @renepickhardt is writing a LN book, maybe you can get some inspiration there.