Selected resources on Bitcoin, Blockchain & Decentralization
This post is a collection of some crypto resources, blogs, influencers, news portals and documentaries I stumbled across when I went down the rabbit hole. After >30 people asked me to share “some links” to wrap their heads around the topic I decided to finally do so — here you go curious minds.
Some fundamentals
White paper: Bitcoin: A peer to peer electronic cash system — by Satoshi Nakamoto
Article: Bitcoin and the separation of money and state — by Erik Voorhees
Article: Why blockchain matters — by Reid Hoffman
Article: The meaning of decentralization — by Vitalik Buterin
Article: Money, Blockchains and social scalability — by Nick Szabo
Article: How digital currency will change the world — by Brian Armstrong
Documentaries:
A quick introduction on how blockchains work
Article: A gentle introduction to blockchain technology — Antony Lewis
Article: A gentle introduction to Bitcoin — Antony Lewis
Article: The Blockchain Application Stack — by Joel Monegro
Infographic: Bitcoin’s network in one infographic
Online Course Coursera: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. The course’s coding assignments require a profound understanding of Java. The Videos can also be found on youtube — Lecture 1: Intro to crypto and crypto currencies.
The crypto ecosystem
Article: The future is a decentralized internet — by Olaf Carlson-Wee
Article: A decentralized web would give power back to the people online — by Metthew Hotgson
Article: Fat protocols — by Joel Monegro
Article: Mapping the decentralized word of tomorrow — by Alexander Ruppert
Website: OutlierVentures.io Startup Tracker
Conferences: Decentralized Web Summit (awesome video content!), Token Summit (awesome video content!), Consensus Conference
Crypto Markets & Trading
Article: Blockchain investments and new problem asset for conventional VCs — by Jake Brukhman
Article: A tactical guide to investing in blockchain assets — by Nick Tomaino
Article: Cryptoeconomics 101 — by Nick Tomaino
Article: Projecting the price of Bitcoin — by Charles Hugh Smith
Article: Crypto Asset valuation methodologies — by Chris Burniske (Chris is about to publish a book soon
Research papers: Smith and Crown (https://www.smithandcrown.com/) and https://ark-invest.com/research/tag/cryptocurrency-2
Monitoring Ethereum Blockchain: https://ethstats.net/ and https://etherscan.io/
Monitoring Bitcoin Blockchain: https://blockchain.info/de/stats
360° overview of crypto assets: https://www.coingecko.com/de
Crypto market caps: http://coincap.io/ and https://coinmarketcap.com/ and https://www.cryptocompare.com/
ICOs: http://icorating.com/and https://tokenmarket.net/ico-calendar and https://cyber.fund/radar and https://blog.coinfund.io/@coinfund_io (awesome slack channel!) and everything on https://www.reddit.com/ of course
Long term trading strategy: http://avc.com/2017/06/the-selloff/ and http://avc.com/2014/10/averaging-in-and-averaging-out/ — Fred Wilson
Blogs & podcasts
Unchained — by Laura Shin
Epicenter, https://epicenter.tv/
Token Economy: https://medium.com/token-economy/token-economy-inaugural-issue-b52079feb024?source=linkShare-3e3cf01a146b-1499264450 – by Stefano Bernardi and Yannick Roux
Some books I liked a lot
How money got free — by Brian Eha
Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations — by Henning Diedrich
The age of cryptocurrency — by Paul Vigna
Blockchain: Blueprint for a new economy — by Melanie Swan
[not yet published but very promising: Crypto assets: The innovative investor’s guide to Bitcoin and beyond (getting excited about this one!) by Chris Burniske]
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