Blockchain and cryptocurrency reading list

4 min readNov 27, 2017

Here is my reading list of articles that I’ve found insightful, thought provoking, or useful. Since I made this list the Crypto Canon from Andresson Horowitz was published and that list is much more comprehensive. I highly recommend you look at that as well.

General

The Fifth Protocol

“Wait a minute… Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing-is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What…

startupboy.com

Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency

We have sat here for the last 3 years seeing only infrastructure apps like wallets and exchanges emerge on top of…

blog.coinbase.com

Cryptocurrency’s Netscape Moment

Just as Netscape’s IPO marked the real kick off for the Internet era, 2017 will be the starting gun for broad…

blog.eladgil.com

The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the cloud, robotics…

hbr.org

Funding the Evolution of Blockchains

Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve though changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through…

medium.com

Some Blockchain Reading

With the price momentum that Bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital assets have experienced over the past few weeks, I’ve…

thecontrol.co

Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right

A few months ago, the Indian government withdrew 86% of banknotes in circulation. Ostensibly, it was to cut down on the…

blog.coinbase.com

A Letter to Jamie Dimon

(And anyone else still struggling to understand cryptocurrencies)

blog.chain.com

Models For Scaling Trustless Computation - Multicoin Capital

Each of the major smart contract platforms is making a unique set of trade-offs. These trade-offs are not simply the…

multicoin.capital

A Crash Course in Mechanism Design for Cryptoeconomic Applications

Understanding the Basic Fundamentals of “Cryptoeconomics”

medium.com

https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/blockchain-governance-programming-our-future-c3bfe30f2d74

Ecosystem

The Crypto Finance Ecosystem.

The crypto universe is booming, and finance is one of its hottest segments. While this data-based economy is maturing…

medium.com

The dApp Developer Stack: The Blockchain Industry Barometer

I currently look at the development of the blockchain ecosystem through the lens of creating a new decentralized…

medium.com

My Token / ICO / Blockchain Capital Markets Landscape

It seems that everyday there is a new altcoin or a new blockchain capital market company. As the market is evolving at…

medium.com

Coin Center | Coin Center

Keeping blockchain networks like Bitcoin free and open

coincenter.org

Blockchain Project Ecosystem

Market Map and Musings on the State of the Ecosystem

medium.com

Where are the healthcare blockchains?

In our last post, we talked about the opportunities for blockchain-based projects in healthcare — and many of the myths…

blog.andreacoravos.com

Ethereum

The Uncanny Mind That Built Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin invented the world’s hottest new cryptocurrency and inspired a movement — before he’d turned 20.

medium.com

ethereum/wiki

wiki - The Ethereum Wiki -

github.com

On tokens, tokenization, and economics of tokens

On the immaturity of tokenized value capture mechanisms

Pursuing value in an age of borderless-ness, experimental monetary policies, costless forks and unlimited innovation.

medium.com

Sound digital goods

Just as bitcoin is a promise for sound money , non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a promise for sound digital goods . Both…

www.tonysheng.com

Traditional Asset Tokenization

Tokenization of traditional assets in the coming years will have an impact on liquidity across multiple asset classes…

hackernoon.com

Fat Protocols | Union Square Ventures

This relationship between protocols and applications is reversed in the blockchain application stack. Value…

www.usv.com

Blockchain Tokens and the dawn of the Decentralized Business Model

Over the last few years over $1bn has been invested in digital currency startups from venture capital firms and…

blog.coinbase.com

Value of the Token Model

Since my prior post on app coins (I think the more appropriate term is now tokens or blockchain tokens) we’ve seen more…

medium.com

Thoughts on Tokens

Tokens are early today, but will transform technology tomorrow.

news.21.co

Tokens, Tokens and More Tokens

Over $331M has been raised in token sales in the past 12 months. What’s really going on?

thecontrol.co

Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation

HTTP as the underlying protocol of the web allows for decentralized publishing. Anyone can operate a web server and…

continuations.com

Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design

It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users…

medium.com

Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics — CoinDesk

In this CoinDesk opinion piece, Stark argues that the term “cryptoeconomics” is widely misunderstood, despite being a…

www.coindesk.com

Structuring Optimal Token Sales Amidst 2017’s ICO Mania

Creating a proper structure and process to launch ICOs will allow us to sustainably develop this technology without a…

techburst.io

Cryptocurrency Incentives and Corporate Structures

The cryptocurrency world faces a tragedy of the commons and free rider issue: there is little ongoing economic…

blog.eladgil.com

On ICOs

Some Lessons I Learned from the Dotcom Bubble for the Coming Crypto Bubble

I spent a bunch of time at Consensus and Token Summit this week. If it wasn’t clear before, we are headed into a crypto…

continuations.com

ICOs and VCs

The Brave browser team concluded an ICO for their Basic Attention Token yesterday in about thirty seconds. This led to…

avc.com

How to Raise Money on a Blockchain with a Token

We’ve now seen several multi-million dollar crowdfundings done on a blockchain. Projects are raising money through the…

blog.gdax.com

Analyzing Token Sale Models

Note: I mention the names of various projects below only to compare and contrast their token sale mechanisms; this…

vitalik.ca

ICOs and Governance

As has been widely reported, in the last few months ICOs have raised significantly more money for blockchain startups…

continuations.com

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Cash: What You Need to Know

Bitcoin Cash’s sudden announcement on Saturday that they’ll go ahead with a fork on August 1 caught a lot of people…

medium.com

Why Bitcoin Matters

Editor’s note: Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has invested just under $50 million in…

dealbook.nytimes.com

Bitcoin as a productive asset

There’s more to it than meets the eye

cryptofundamental.com