Digital currency reading list, December 2017

3 min readDec 3, 2017

This is a follow up to my original digital currency reading list.

UPDATE: my most current crypto reading list can be found on my personal website.

DISCLAIMER: none of this is an endorsement of the views contained in each linked item. This list is also not associated with my employer Coinbase. Finally, none of this is investment advice.

Overall ecosystem

Crypto Evolution

New cryptocurrencies test out new evolutionary paths as different species do. Then forks evolve some of these species…

blog.ycombinator.com

Some Thoughts on the State of Bitcoin and Ethereum

Some Thoughts on the State of Bitcoin and Ethereum Upfront disclosure: I am long both Bitcoin and Ethereum (personally…

continuations.com

Blockchain Project Ecosystem

Market Map and Musings on the State of the Ecosystem

medium.com

A Letter to Jamie Dimon

(And anyone else still struggling to understand cryptocurrencies)

blog.chain.com

Unpopular Ideas about Blockchains

By Sunny Aggarwal and Nate Rush

conspirat.us

Naval Ravikant On How Crypto Is Squeezing VCs, Hindering Regulators And Bringing Users Choice

Naval Ravikant, the executive chairman of AngelList and partner of MetaStable Capital, spends most of his time working…

www.forbes.com

“Experts” won’t be first

I distinctly remember the moment I became enamored with the application layer of mobile computing. The year was 2006.…

jordancooper.blog

The Four Waves of Crypto Disruption

With both Bitcoin and Ether surging to record highs this week, everyone — entrepreneurs, investors, consumers…

versionone.vc

Forks and governance

Forking vs. Voting in Blockchains

There was an interesting post on the YCombinator blog by Ramon Recuero about the evolution of blockchain protocols…

continuations.com

Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future

This post describes why blockchain governance design is one of the most important problems out there, its critical…

medium.com

Accelerating Evolution Through Forking

In a prior post I proposed funding protocol development through inflation as a powerful tool to evolve blockchains.

medium.com

Funding the Evolution of Blockchains

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

medium.com

Etherem scaling

a16z Field Notes: Devcon3 - Ethereum Developer's Conference

Editor's Note: These notes, based on talks at the Ethereum Foundation's third annual developer's conference earlier…

a16z.com

Ethereum Casper 101

tl;dr Casper will implement proof of stake in Ethereum. We begin with a review on why proof of stake matters and…

medium.com

Tokens, ICOs and cryptoeconomics

The Hitchhikers Guide to ICOs

By Kaidi Ruusalepp, Founder & CEO

wire.funderbeam.com

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 Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of…

vitalik.ca

Just How Disruptive Are ICOs to the Classic VC Model?

Initial Coin Offerings, a fundraising mechanism for companies using cryptocurrencies as a mechanism to buy their…

tomtunguz.com

a16z Podcast: Why Crypto Tokens Matter

We’ve already talked about why bitcoin matters. But as the set of cryptocurrencies — and networks and “tokens” enabled…

a16z.com

Fat Protocol thesis counterpoints

There’s no such thing as “fat protocols”

In the web3/blockchain ecosystem, Joel Monegro’s post on fat protocols has been so influential that it has become…

www.evanvanness.com

Fat protocols are not an investment thesis

Searching for investment criteria in the functionality stack

blog.coinfund.io

Newsletters

Token Economy

Keeping track of new developments in the distributed ledger technology space

tokeneconomy.co

Week in Ethereum News

BeyondBlock Taipei saw Vitalik give a scaling talk and Vlad give a governance talk. Vlad has been tweetstorming about…

www.weekinethereum.com

Digital currency reading list, December 2017

Overall ecosystem

Crypto Evolution

New cryptocurrencies test out new evolutionary paths as different species do. Then forks evolve some of these species…

Some Thoughts on the State of Bitcoin and Ethereum

Some Thoughts on the State of Bitcoin and Ethereum Upfront disclosure: I am long both Bitcoin and Ethereum (personally…

Blockchain Project Ecosystem

Market Map and Musings on the State of the Ecosystem

A Letter to Jamie Dimon

(And anyone else still struggling to understand cryptocurrencies)

Unpopular Ideas about Blockchains

By Sunny Aggarwal and Nate Rush

Naval Ravikant On How Crypto Is Squeezing VCs, Hindering Regulators And Bringing Users Choice

Naval Ravikant, the executive chairman of AngelList and partner of MetaStable Capital, spends most of his time working…

“Experts” won’t be first

I distinctly remember the moment I became enamored with the application layer of mobile computing. The year was 2006.…

The Four Waves of Crypto Disruption

With both Bitcoin and Ether surging to record highs this week, everyone — entrepreneurs, investors, consumers…

Forks and governance

Forking vs. Voting in Blockchains

There was an interesting post on the YCombinator blog by Ramon Recuero about the evolution of blockchain protocols…

Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future

This post describes why blockchain governance design is one of the most important problems out there, its critical…

Accelerating Evolution Through Forking

In a prior post I proposed funding protocol development through inflation as a powerful tool to evolve blockchains.

Funding the Evolution of Blockchains

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

Etherem scaling

a16z Field Notes: Devcon3 - Ethereum Developer's Conference

Editor's Note: These notes, based on talks at the Ethereum Foundation's third annual developer's conference earlier…

Ethereum Casper 101

tl;dr Casper will implement proof of stake in Ethereum. We begin with a review on why proof of stake matters and…

Tokens, ICOs and cryptoeconomics

The Hitchhikers Guide to ICOs

By Kaidi Ruusalepp, Founder & CEO

Cryptocurrency Incentives and Corporate Structures

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

On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of…

Just How Disruptive Are ICOs to the Classic VC Model?

Initial Coin Offerings, a fundraising mechanism for companies using cryptocurrencies as a mechanism to buy their…

a16z Podcast: Why Crypto Tokens Matter

We’ve already talked about why bitcoin matters. But as the set of cryptocurrencies — and networks and “tokens” enabled…

Fat Protocol thesis counterpoints

There’s no such thing as “fat protocols”

In the web3/blockchain ecosystem, Joel Monegro’s post on fat protocols has been so influential that it has become…

Fat protocols are not an investment thesis

Searching for investment criteria in the functionality stack

Other reading

Why Decentralized Exchange Protocols Matter

Decentralized exchange is early today but feels like it will be essential in a few years.

A beginner’s guide to Decred

What is Decred?

The Slow Death of the Firm

Most people think of Bitcoin as a digital asset, but it can be thought of as something more general than that: a…

Newsletters

Token Economy

Keeping track of new developments in the distributed ledger technology space

Week in Ethereum News

BeyondBlock Taipei saw Vitalik give a scaling talk and Vlad give a governance talk. Vlad has been tweetstorming about…

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