Blockchain Resources

Curated list of blockchain and general cryptocurrency resources

Table of Contents

Cryptography
Bitcoin Books
Blockchain Art
Blockchain Books
Courses
Documentaries
Ethereum and Smart Contracts
Explorers
Infographics
Talks
White Papers
Youtube Channels
Assets
Private Blockchains
Tutorials
Faucets
Blogs
Articles
Other Decentralised Tech
Discussion Groups

Cryptography

Cryptography Basics
An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography
What is PGP? - Binance Academy
What Is Symmetric Key Crpytography - Binance Academy
Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Encryption - Binance Academy
What Is Public Key Cryptography - Binance Academy
History of Cryptography - Binance Academy

Blockchain Books

Blockchain Explained: A Technology Guide to the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Fintech Revolution - R.J Simmons
Blockchain Fast and Simple - What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters: Understand the basics, join the revolution - Pierro Martini
Cryptocurrency Investment: How to Invest in Cryptocurrencies and Make Money in the Long-term - Tamas Torok
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World - Don and AlexTapscott
Blockchain Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Bitcoin and How to Use Blockchain for Your Benefit - Phil Stein
Blockchain The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Hidden Economy -s Oscar Flynt
Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy - Melanie Swan
Blockchain: Easiest Ultimate Guide To Understand Blockchain - Jared Norton
Blockchain: Quick Start Guide to Understanding Blockchain, the Biggest Revolution in Financial Technology and Beyond Since the Internet - Seth Ramsey
Blockchain: The Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Hidden Economy - Timothy Short
Blockchain: The Essential Guide to Understanding the Blockchain Revolution - Jeff Reed
Blockchain: The Future of Internet Innovation - Ideas, Applications and Uses for Blockchain Technology - Jerry Kershen
Blockchain: The Simple Guide To Everything You Need To Know - Jacob William
Bye Bye Banks?: How Retail Banks are Being Displaced, Diminished and Disintermediated by Tech Startups and What They Can Do to Survive - James Haycock
Decentralized Applications: Harnessing Bitcoin’s Blockchain Technology - Siraj Raval
Financial Technology: This Book Bundle Includes FinTech and Blockchain - Jacob William
How to Program a Block Chain Explorer with Python and Bitcoin - Alex Gorale
The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology - William Mougayar
The FinTech Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries - Susanne Chishti and Janos Barberis
The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Prof Klaus Schwab
The Science of the Blockchain - Roger Wattenhofer
ValueWeb: How FinTech firms are using mobile and blockchain technologies to create the Internet of Value -Chris Skinner
Blockchain for Dummies - Tiana Laurence
Mastering Bitcoin Programming - Andreas M. Antonopoulos

White papers

A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names - University of San Diego California
A brave new world? What impact will distributed ledger technology have on the financial industry? - The European Central Bank
An Architecture for the Internet of Money - Meher Roy
Banking in a world of programmable assets - Accenture
Bitcoin Primer - Macro Risk Advisors
Bitcoin as Money? - Stephanie Lo and J. Christina Wang
Bitcoin - Microsoft Research
BlockChain Technology Beyond Bitcoin - University of California,Berkeley
Blockchain: practical implications of a revolutionary technology for financial markets and beyond - DLA Piper
Blockchain: the solution for transparency in product supply chains - Project Provenance Ltd
Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains - Muneeb Ali, Jude Nelson, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman
Bootstrapping Trust in Distributed Systems with Blockchains - Muneeb Ali, Jude Nelson, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman
Consensus – Immutable agreement for the internet of value - KPMG
Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain - UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Economics of Bitcoin - Peter Surda
Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains - Adam Back, Matt Corallo, Luke Dashjr, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Andrew Miller, Andrew Poelstra, Jorge Timón, and Pieter Wuille
Extending Existing Blockchains with Virtualchain - Jude Nelson, Muneeb Ali, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman
The Impact and Potential of Blockchain on the Securities Transaction Lifecycle - The Swift Institute
World Citizenship by Creating Affordable Private Passport Service - Chris Ellis

Bitcoin

Anonymous Cryptocurrencies: The rise of bitcoin alternatives that offer true anonymity - Will Martin
Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World - Jeffery Tucker
Bitcoin : A Complete Beginner’s Guide - Master The Game - Luke Sutton
Bitcoin Basics - Benjamin Tideas
Bitcoin Decoded: Bitcoin Beginner’s Guide to Mining and the Strategies to Make Money with Cryptocurrencies - Brett Combs,Tom Mitsoff
Bitcoin For Dummies - Prypto
Bitcoin Internals: A Technical Guide to Bitcoin - Chris Clark
Bitcoin Step by Step for Beginners: How to Invest and Profit from Bitcoin Today! - Leo Kallstrom
Bitcoin The Future of Money - Dominic Frisby
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction - Arvind Narayanan,Joseph Bonneau,Edward Felten, Andrew Miller,Steven Goldfeder (free version of first draft)
Bitcoin and The Future of Money - Jose Pagliery
Bitcoin for the Befuddled - Conrad Barski and Chris Wilmer
Bitcoin in English - Peter H Le
Bitcoin: Mastering Bitcoin & Cyptocurrency for Beginners - Tim Harris
Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin - Nathaniel Popper
Everything you need to know about buying, selling and investing in Bitcoin - A. H Smithers
Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are challenging the Global Economic Order - Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
The Anatomy of a Money-Like Informational Commodity: A study of Bitcoin - Tim Swanson
The Bitcoin Bible - Benjamin Guttmann
The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About to Change the World - Brian Kelly
The Bitcoin Tutor: Unlocking the Secrets of Bitcoin - Marc A. Carignan
The Bitcoin Tutorial: Develop an intuitive understanding of the currency and blockchain technology - Bruce Kleinman
The Black Book of Bitcoin: A Step-by-Step Bitcoin Guide on Everything You Need to Know About this New Currency - Mark Janniro
The Book of Satoshi - Paul Champagne
The Digital Money Game: Competing in the multi-trillion dollar payments industry - Charmaine Oak
The Internet of Money - Andreas M Antonopoulos
Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, Engineering and Economics - Pedro Franco
Virtual Billions: The Genius, the Drug Lord, and the Ivy League Twins behind the Rise of Bitcoin - Eric Geissinger
Wildcat Currency - Edward Castronova

Network Effects

A Note on Metcalfe’s Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits by Vitalik Buterin
Continuous Token Models: Towards a Million Networks of Value by Simon de la Rouviere
Crypto Tokens: A breakthrough in open network design by Chris Dixon
Bitcoin Network Effects
Keepers — Workers that Maintain Blockchain Networks
Smart-Contract Network Effect Fallacy

Ethereum and Smart Contracts

A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy - Vitalik Buterin
Blockchain contracts and CyberLaw - Pavan Duggal
Ethereum Builder’s Guide - Ethereum
Ethereum Frontier Guide - Ethereum
Ethereum: A look into the world of Ethereum and everything you need to know about it’s trade and investment - Ben Abner
Ethereum: The Complete Beginners Guide -Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Ethereum - Ray Hammond
FinTech: Financial Technology and Modern Finance in the 21st Century - Jeff Reed
Great Chain of Numbers: A Guide to Smart Contracts, Smart Property and Trustless Asset Management - Tim Swanson
Investing In Ethereum: The Complete Guide To Smart Investing - Learn How To Easily Profit From Cryptocurrencies! - Thomas Sanders
Investing in Ethereum: The Ultimate Guide to Learning and Profiting from–Cryptocurrencies - Oscar Flynt
Investing in Ethereum: Understanding Cryptocurrencies for the Smart Investor - Michael K Nungesser
Practical Guide to Smart Contracts - Smart Contract Japan
Smart Contracts: How to Use Blockchain Smart Contracts for Cryptocurrency Exchange - Oscar Flynt
Smart Contracts: The Essential Guide to Using Blockchain Smart Contracts for Cryptocurrency Exchange - Jeff Reed
Smart Contracts: The Ultimate Guide To Blockchain Smart Contracts - Learn How To Use Smart Contracts For Cryptocurrency Exchange! - Terry Parker
The Modern Ethereum - Ryan Venter
TurboEthereum Guide - Gavin Wood
Crypto Zombies

Infographics

Talks

Youtube Channels

Courses

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies - Princeton University
Bitcoin or How I learned to stop worrying and love Crypto - Udemy
Bitcoin - Khan Academy Series
Crypto Currencies, the Blockchain, and Smart Contracts - Standford
Ethereum Developer: Build A Decentralised Blockchain App - Udemy
Introduction to Bitcoin and Decentralized Technology By Scott Driscoll - Pluralsight
The Basics of Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide to Blockchain - Udemy
The Complete Ethereum Course - udemy
Learn About Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain - Upfolio

Documentaries

Blockchain Art

Explorers

Assets

Private Blockchain

Tutorials

How Bitcoin Works in 5 Minutes (Technical) (5m:25s) by Curious Inventor
How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood (22m:24s) by Curious Inventor
Mechanics of Bitcoin (1h:19m:49s) by Princeton Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course
Programming Bitcoin Youtube Channel by Murray
Coding Multi-Signature Addresses by D’Angelo
Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course (C4) by Aljosha Judmayer and Edgar Weipp
The libbitcoin Tutorial by Taaki
How to Parse the Bitcoin Blockchain by Ratcliff
Signing Offline Transactions by Maxwell
2 of 2 escrow example by Maxwell
2 of 3 multisig example by Andresen
How to decrypt messages in the blockchain from btcmsg by ripper234
HyperLedger Training & certifications
Blockchain council

Faucets

Blogs

Articles

Blockchained India Articles
Acyclic Labs Articles
Snarks
Bulletproofs - Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More
blockchain-applications - Cheefoo (@hellocourage)
HyperLedger Fabric
Blockchain Architecture Explained

Consensus Mechanisms

What Is a Blockchain Consensus Mechanism by Binance Academy

PoW - Proof of Work

PoW and Blockchains presentation by Prof. Ittay Eyal (IC3)
The PoW concept article by the Nakamoto Institute
Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake by BlockGeeks
Vulnerability: Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake
Proof of Work Explained by Binance Academy

PoS - Proof of Stake

Strengths and Weaknesses of PoS Vitalik Buterin’s article on the strengths and weaknesses of staking contrasting to PoW algorithms
PoS Design Philosophy A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy by Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum PoS FAQ
The evolution of PoS Article on the evolution of PoS by Coin Telegraph
Weak Subjectivity in PoS Weak Subjectivity in PoS by Vitalik Buterin
The History of Casper - Chapter 1 Vlad Zamfir’s series on the history of Casper, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5
On Stake and Consensus
Critic on the PoS Philosophy by Tuur Demeester
Extended Summary on Casper by Jon Choi
The Economics of the PoS consensus algorithm
Casper vs Tendermint
Minimal Slashing condition in Ethereum
Proof of Stake Explained

DPoS - Delegated Proof of Stake

DPoS Introduction Introduction to DPoS by Bitshares
DPoS vs PoW Article by Daniel Larimer from Bitshares
Tendermint BFT vs. EOS dPoS by Tendermint
Seeking Consensus on Consensus Delegated Proof of Stake and the Two Generals’ Problem
DPoS Explained by Binance Academy

dBFT - Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems by Prof. Kenneth Goodwin
dBFT vs PoW and PoS Antshare’s (now NEO) views on consensus
Intro to Ethermint BFT

Governance

The Consensus Series, Part I: The Basics of Collectivity and Addendum by Aleksandr Bulkin
Governance and Network Effects
Notes on Blockchain Governance by Vitalik Buterin
Against On-Chain Governance by Vlad Zamfir
On Public vs Private Blockchains by Vitalik Buterin

Other Decentralised Tech

Discussion Groups

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