Reading guide on Ethereum
2 min readJan 23, 2017
I put together this list of ways to get involved in and understand Ethereum, and it seemed useful enough to share with others. I’ll update this continuously as I come across more.
Introduction
- A beginner’s guide to Ethereum
- Ethereum: A Visual Explanation
- The Uncanny Mind That Built Ethereum
- An Introduction to Ethereum and Smart Contracts: a Programmable Blockchain
- Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s future
- Man Who’s Made Over $400,000 Investing in Bitcoin Reveals His Strategy
- Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
Originally designed development roadmap
Why Ethereum matters
- The UN Needs Blockchain to Achieve its Goals
- Introduction to Ethereum: The Internet’s Government
- The Meaning of Decentralization
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/4dvfcm/serious_question_can_anyone_actually_think_of/d1uskh1/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5kqg6f/best_dapp_ideas_that_havent_been_launched_yet/dbq7n4a/
Privacy and zk-SNARKS
Enterprise involvement
- Memo from Davos: We have a trust problem. Personal responsibility and Ethereum are the solutions.
- The Birth of Enterprise Ethereum in 2017
- Microsoft Unveils Project Manifest, A Plan For Blockchain Product Tracking
- Business Giants to Announce Creation of a Computing System Based on Ethereum
Why so many people like Coinbase
- https://blog.coinbase.com/the-coinbase-secret-master-plan-f4d644443301#.q3p84jb31
- (Disclaimer: this is my referral link. you get $10, and I get $10) https://www.coinbase.com/join/529640e563064d28df0007dc
Proof-of-stake (PoS, aka Casper)
- Introducing Casper “the Friendly Ghost”
- Where’s Casper? Inside Ethereum’s Race to Reinvent its Blockchain
- The Historty of Casper Part 1
- The History of Casper Part 2
- The History of Casper Part 3
- The History of Casper Part 4
- The History of Casper Part 5
- Understanding Ethereum — Casper and Proof-of-Stake
- Parametrizing Casper: the decentralization/finality time/overhead tradeoff
How to develop a Dapp
- Ethereum for web developers
- Full Stack Hello World Voting Ethereum Dapp Tutorial — Part 1
- Full Stack Hello World Voting Ethereum Dapp Tutorial — Part 2
- Full Stack Hello World Voting Ethereum Dapp Tutorial — Part 3
- Getting Started as an Ethereum Web Developer
- Truffle Framework Tutorial
