Thanks everyone for replying! Not exactly what I had expected :-) but thanks anyway. I do realize it is not welcomed with a lot of enthusiasm by everyone, and I do understand your point of view. But please, understand mine:
- I'm relatively new to crypto, I want to / still have to learn a lot
- I see a study group, a wing man, a buddy, call it what you want, as highly and mutually beneficial: learning something new in a (small) group goes a lot faster
- I also want to work in crypto eventually and this will help me "sell myself": a certification by a 'consortium' is better than no certificate at all; it will look good on my CV
- I don't intend to stop here, I intend to get more certificates (Andreas is working with the university of Nicosia, he retweeted something about a course today)
- price is still doable; the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme on the other side, that's expensive (like $2k IIRC)
So please guys, I'm looking for someone to study with me. I'm not looking for a debate on certification. You're right to some extent, but that's another thread...
you have to keep in mind that this is all new for everyone including those teaching this stuff no matter where they come from, how much it costs and what certificate they give you. this may be my self-taught-mentality talking but i prefer learning more about bitcoin on my own. and there are enough resources out there that are actually good which you can start from.
i myself learned most things from A.A.'s book mastering bitcoin, bitcoin wiki, developer's reference, stackoverflow and this forum.
if you want to "work" eventually you must have some sort of actual contribution, have coded, some work experience,... of course a certificate is good but if for example we are giving things rate from 1 to 100 the certificate adds 1 point while having a code for instance on github is 50 to 100 depending on what it is .