Your looking for a place with plenty of passionate like you ? You can find here most of the forum/discord server I'm using.
r/crypto Reddit main sub for cryptography. You can ask questions, find recent plublished paper and chat with the community.
Cryptohack's discord server A wonderful community of cryptographers, you can ask for help, follow the news, share memes and a lot more!
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