I really appreciate your optimism to be more familiar with blockchain technology and get to the roots, it is advisable to surf on some sites that discuss more about blockchain, self-taught is not a very good way to better understand blockchain technology where it is very complicated to read the code without knowing what -What, I'm just worried about that, lots of open course courses to know more about blockchain will really help you to further rearrange your bottom-up knowledge, it's crucial to your own success, do not worry too much about other people's talk that's bugging your ears.