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

• Bitcoin's History 2008-2014
• How a Transaction Works

Talks

• All Blockchained India Talks
• Balaji Srinivasan gives a quick talk at Goldman Sachs. (14 min)
• Balaji Srinivasan on Silicon Valley’s ultimate exit, the USA the Microsoft of nations (16 min)
• Beyond Bitcoin - Block Chains and the Future of Trustless Computing (27 min)
• Bitcoin Is Exciting Because It's Cheap - Bill Gates
• Bitcoin threatens Kleptocracy (7 min):
• Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.(11min) - Paul Kemp-Robertson
• Convergex Group, Nick Colas (3min):
• Defining bitcoin ownership, 2 min
• Ending the Federal Reserve's Monopoly (6 min):
• Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin - Reihan Salams
• How Cryptocurrencies Can Succeed: the Stripe Perspective(20min) - Greg Brockman
• How the Blockchain is Changing Money and Business (19 min) - Don Tapscott
• Internet vs Bitcoin (3min):
• Join The Bitcoin Revolution (4min):
• TEDx, Crytpocurrencies like Bitcoin are coming, and it's a good thing (11min): - Juan Llanos
• Powerful Technology Transforming Society: (6min)
• Quick Introduction to Bitcoin (5min)
• Stefan Molyneux- Money, Power and Politics (30min):
• Stopping War: (1 min)
• TEDx, Distributing Power & Trust (18min) - Eric Spano
• Testimony for the Australian Senate Commitee on Economics References(36min)
• The Future of Bitcoin: New Applications and Rebuilding the banking system: (28min) - Mike Hearn
• The Story of Genesis: (3min)
• The future will be decentralized (14mins) - Charles Hoskinson
• Xapo, the history of money (5 min):

Youtube Channels

• Andreas Antonopolous
• AirBitz
• Andy Ofiesh
• Binance Academy
• Bitcoin Embassy
• Bitcoin Foundation
• BitcoinLectures.tv
• Bitcoin Wednesday
• Blockchain University
• Blockstack
• Bruce Fenton First Mover
• Coin Brief
• Cryptonauts
• deBitcoin
• Decentral.tv
• Draper University
• EtherCasts
• Ethereum Project
• Ethereum for Dummies - Dr. Gavin Wood
• EverydayCrpto
• Let's Talk Bitcoin
• MIT Bitcoin Club
• Introduction to Ethereum and Smart Contracts
• SF Bitcoin Meetup Industry
• Satoshi Pollen Technical
• [Texas Bitcoin Conference](Industy Info, Technical)
• Trust Disrupted
• University Of Nicosia
• WBN
• [World Crypto Network](Industry Info, Fun, Entertainment)

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

• Banking on Bitcoin(Trailer)
• Bitcoin in Uganda
• Inside Man with Morgan Spurlock
• Bitcoin: Liberating Organic Farmers
• Bitcoins in Argentina
• Life Inside of a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine
• The Bitcoin Doco
• The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin

Blockchain Art

• Artlery
• Ascribe
• Bitmark
• Blockai
• Everledger
• MediaChain Labs
• Monegraph
• Tagsmart
• Verisart

Explorers

• Bitaps
• Bitinfocharts
• Block Explorer
• Blockchain Size:
• Blockonomics
• Blockstack Explorer
• Blockr
• Blocktrail
• Btc Chain
• Chain Flyer
• Coin Payments
• Coin Prism
• CoinGecko
• Ether.Camp
• EtherChain
• Ethereum Network Stats
• Etherscan
• Insight
• Size of the Network
• Smartbit
• SoChain
• Tradeblock
• Wallet Explorer
• WebBtc

Assets

• Coinspark
• Chronicled
• EverLedger
• OpenPublish
• Open Assets Protocol
• Blockstack Keychains JS
• Deterministic Wallets

Private Blockchain

• HyperLedger
• Openchain

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

• Get BTC on Testnet
• Get ETH on Rinkeby Testnet
• BlockX Labs Universal Faucet

Blogs

• Coindesk
• CoinTelegraph
• Blockchain.News
• Blockchain Blog
• Blockchain Blog on Medium
• IBM Blockchain Blog
• CCN
• Bitcoin Blog
• Coinbase Blog
• ForkLog
• Ethereum Blog
• Ethereum World News
• Zebpay Blog
• Coingate Blog
• Binance Blog
• Binance Academy

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

• Everything Tangle
• IOTA projectstube
• IOTA Currency
• IOTA WhitePaper v1.3
• Hashgraph

Discussion Groups

• Blockchained India
• Crypto Trading
• Bitcoin Core
• LiteCoin
• Unofficial LTC
• Peercoin
• IOTA Tech
• IOTA Slack
• Mercury Protocol
• Envion
• Hashgraph
• Hashgraph Dev
• Hashgraph News
• Leverj
• Prover Project
• CanYa Community
• IndiaBits

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