Someone on lihkg asked whether there is a technically oriented blockchain tg group. I guess there probably is, but still, I remember having spent quite some time trying to navigate this space, and it can be very addictive. It takes some experience to separate out the technical meat from just narcissistic self-aggrandizement. Although it is a maze, in the end I did come out with the knowledge that there are some legitimate insights, and I saved those links in a note somewhere, which quickily got buried. Today I'm digging it out and dumping it here for the record.
(Note: the full list has been slightly abridged and some not-too-relevant links pruned)
(2nd version: finished dumping the original note file) (3rd: dug out 2 more links by searching google... I should have saved those, not sure why it's not found on my notes)