Blockchain Resources

✨This repo serves as a resource for developers to leverage on their journey into Blockchain.✨

This is a visual roadmap for beginners venturing into the World of Software Development. In order not to feel overwhelmed by how much you need to know to be a Blockchain Developer. This roadmap serves as a guide throughout your journey. You can follow through with this guide and be assured you are on the right path.

Resource types: 🎮 - Interactive 📚 - Book 📹 - Video 📝 - Article 🎤 - Podcast 👩‍💻 - Community 💰 - Paid Resource 🎁- Free Resource 🏆 - Exercises

Blockchain Developer RoadMap

Articles

1. Read Blockchain- (Explain Like I’m 5) or Explain like I’m 5: Blockchain

2. Read bitcoinbook

3. Read What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners!

4. Read Learn All About Cryptocurrencies Cryptography: How Does it All Work?

5. Read What is Cryptocurrency?

6. Read What is Bitcoin?

7. Read Bitcoin White Paper

8. Read Different Consensus Protocols

9. Read More about different consensus mechanisms

10. Read What is Ethereum?

11. Read How does Ethereum work?

12. Read the Book Mastering Ethereum

13. Read Bitcoin VS Ethereum: [The Ultimate Step-by-Step Comparison Guide]

14. Complete CryptoZombies: Building Your Own Game using Solidity

15. Space Doggos - Interactive Learning Solidity Course

16. Read How to Code Your Own CryptoKitties-Style Game on Ethereum

17. Read The Official Solidity Documentation

18. Go through Azure Smart Contract Samples

19. Play the Web3/Solidity based wargame: Ethernaut

20. Read and make a simple dapp: Pet shop tutorial

21. Read the Ganache Documentation

22. Read the Truffle Documentation

23. Read the Web3 Documentation

24. Understanding IPFS in Depth

25. Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer’s Guide

26. Blockchain: Foundations and Use Cases

27. The Complete Node.js Developer Course

28. Learn to Code Ethereum DApps By Building Your Own Game

29. Getting Deep Into Ethereum: How Data Is Stored In Ethereum?

30. Checkout Ethereum for DUMMIES

31. Develop a Blockchain application from scratch in Python

32. Lets create our first Hello World Dapp

33. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Bootcamp on Udemy

34. Blockchain A-Z™: Learn How To Build Your First Blockchain on Udemy

35. Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer’s Guide on Udemy

36. Blockchain Essentials from Cognitive Class

37. IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer from Cognitive Class

38. Blockchain Specialization offered by University at Buffalo & The State University of New York on Coursera

39. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies offered by Princeton University on Coursera

40. Blockchain: Foundations and Use Cases offered by Consensys Academy on Coursera

41. FinTech Law and Policy offered by Duke University on Coursera

42. Blockchain 101 - A Visual Demo: YouTube

43. Blockchain basics: Lynda

44. Basic Blockchain Essentials course by IBM

45. Ethereum whitepaper: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

46. Ethereum course (highly recommended - paid): https://www.udemy.com/ethereum-and- solidity-the-complete-developers-guide/

47. A good resource to learn dApp development by coding your own game: https://cryptozombies.io/

48. A good grasp on concepts of Decentralised Applications: https://www.theschool.ai/courses/decentralized-application/

49. Excellent course on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/blockchain-foundations- and-use-cases

50. Course on Coursera : https://www.coursera.org/learn/blockchain-basics

51. For getting started: https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io

52. Fabric samples - Chaincode, SDKs and Network setup: https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-samples

53. Hyperledger tutorWhat is Blockchain Technology: https://www.coindesk.com/information/what-is-blockchain-technology/

54. What is Bitcoin? by CoinDesk

55. What is Bitcoin? by CNN Money

56. The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services by Don an Alex Tapscott

57. [Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm and its Applications in Bitcoin (http://cs.ucsb.edu/~koc/ecc/project/2015Projects/Malvik+Witzoee.pdf) by Arnt Gunnar Malvik and Bendik Witzoee

58. Programming Bitcoin Transaction Scripts by Kofler

59. Developer’s Introduction to Bitcoin by Buterin

60. How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood by Driscoll

61. Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol by Shirriff

62. Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes by Shirriff

63. Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course (C4) by Aljosha Judmayer and Edgar Weipp

64. The libbitcoin Tutorial by Taaki

65. How to Parse the Bitcoin Blockchain by Ratcliff

66. Signing Offline Transactions by Maxwell

67. 2 of 2 escrow example by Maxwell

68. 2 of 3 multisig example by Andresen

69. How to decrypt messages in the blockchain from btcmsg by ripper234

70. Ask Dr. Bitcoin: What are Side-Chains

71. Introduction To Sidechains and Blockchain 2.0

72. Sidechains, Treechains, the TL;DR by Sanders

73. Side Chains: The How, The Challenges and the Potential by Buterin

74. Sidechain Technical Feasibility Discussion (discussion)

75. Alternative Chains / merged mining

76. The Initial Two-Way Pegging proposal by Adam Back

77. Blockstream Whitepaper Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains

78. Tree-chains preliminary summary by Todd

79. Sidechains: Alpha Sidechain Tutorial

80. A Treatise on Altcoins

81. How To Clone Scrypt Based Altcoins for Fun and Profit by shakezula

82. What is hashing

83. Blockchain Explained: How Immutability Works

84. A Gentle Introduction to Immutability of Blockchains

85. A HitchHiker's Guide to Consensus Algorithms - Hacker Noon

86. Short Guide to Blockchain Consensus Protocols

87. Beginner's Guide to Ethereum Casper Hardfork: What You Need to Know

88. How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document

89. The Meaning of Decentralization

90. Blockchains don’t scale. Not today, at least. But there’s hope.

91. How Safe Are Blockchains? It Depends

92. Blockchain Open Source Code is Failing on Security Says CAST

93. Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble by Steven Johnson

94. IBM's Blockchain Market Reports

95. A rant about blockchains

96. A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names - University of San Diego California

97. A brave new world? What impact will distributed ledger technology have on the financial industry? - The European Central Bank

98. An Architecture for the Internet of Money - Meher Roy

99. Banking in a world of programmable assets - Accenture

100. Bitcoin Primer - Macro Risk Advisors

101. Bitcoin as Money? - Stephanie Lo and J. Christina Wang

102. Bitcoin - Microsoft Research

103. BlockChain Technology Beyond Bitcoin - University of California,Berkeley

104. Blockchain: practical implications of a revolutionary technology for financial markets and beyond - DLA Piper

105. Blockchain: the solution for transparency in product supply chains - Project Provenance Ltd

106. Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains - Muneeb Ali, Jude Nelson, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman

107. Bootstrapping Trust in Distributed Systems with Blockchains - Muneeb Ali, Jude Nelson, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman

108. Consensus – Immutable agreement for the internet of value - KPMG

109. Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain - UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser

110. Economics of Bitcoin - Peter Surda

111. 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

112. Extending Existing Blockchains with Virtualchain - Jude Nelson, Muneeb Ali, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman

113. The Impact and Potential of Blockchain on the Securities Transaction Lifecycle - The Swift Institute

114. World Citizenship by Creating Affordable Private Passport Service - Chris Ellis

115. Cryptoeconomics for dummies

116. Cryptoeconomics 101

117. Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics by Josh Stark

118. What is Cryptoeconomics What is Cryptoeconomics, a guide by BlockGeeks

119. How Society Will Be Transformed By Cryptoeconomics

120. Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology

121. Vivek Singh's Cryptoeconomics in context

122. Cryptoeconomics Definitions Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

123. The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics by RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub

124. Cryptoeconomics is Hard Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 by Aleksandr Bulkin

125. How to create a cryptoeconomic protocol from scratch by Vlad Zamfir

126. Behavioural Crypto-Economics the challenge and promise of Blockchain Incentive Design by Elad Verbin

127. Introduction to Blockchain through Cryptoeconomics by Zubin Koticha

128. The need for an Incentive scheme in Algorand by Alexis Guaba, Zubin Koticha

129. Cryptoeconomics.study -- An free and open source book & course on Cryptoeconomics

130. Cryptographic Primitives as described in Wikipedia

131. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup

132. Ethereum: Signing and Validating

133. Merkling in Ethereum by Vitalik Buterin

134. Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark

135. PoW and Blockchains presentation by Prof. Ittay Eyal (IC3)

136. The PoW concept article by the Nakamoto Institute

137. ConsensusPedia - An Encylopedia of 29 consensus algorithms article by the Nakamoto Institute) article by Vasa

138. Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake by BlockGeeks

139. Vulnerability: Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake

140. Strengths and Weaknesses of PoS Vitalik Buterin's article on the strengths and weaknesses of staking contrasting to PoW algorithms

141. PoS Design Philosophy A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy by Vitalik Buterin

142. Ethereum PoS FAQ

143. The evolution of PoS Article on the evolution of PoS by Coin Telegraph

144. Weak Subjectivity in PoS Weak Subjectivity in PoS by Vitalik Buterin

145. The History of Casper - Chapter 1 Vlad Zamfir's series on the history of Casper, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5

146. On Stake and Consensus

147. Critic on the PoS Philosophy by Tuur Demeester

148. Extended Summary on Casper by Jon Choi

149. The Economics of the PoS consensus algorithm

150. Casper vs Tendermint

151. Minimal Slashing condition in Ethereum

152. DPoS Introduction Introduction to DPoS by Bitshares

153. DPoS vs PoW Article by Daniel Larimer from Bitshares

154. Tendermint BFT vs. EOS dPoS by Tendermint

155. Seeking Consensus on Consensus Delegated Proof of Stake and the Two Generals' Problem

156. Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems by Prof. Kenneth Goodwin

157. dBFT vs PoW and PoS Antshare's (now NEO) views on consensus

158. Intro to Ethermint BFT

159. A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits by Vitalik Buterin

160. Continuous Token Models: Towards a Million Networks of Value by Simon de la Rouviere

161. Crypto Tokens: A breakthrough in open network design by Chris Dixon

162. Bitcoin Network Effects

163. Keepers — Workers that Maintain Blockchain Networks

164. Smart-Contract Network Effect Fallacy

165. The Consensus Series, Part I: The Basics of Collectivity and Addendum by Aleksandr Bulkin

166. Governance and Network Effects

167. Notes on Blockchain Governance by Vitalik Buterin

168. Against On-Chain Governance by Vlad Zamfir

169. On Public vs Private Blockchains by Vitalik Buterin

170. Intro to Cryptoeconomic security Basic intro to cryptoeconomic security

171. Anti-fragile Cryptoeconomic systems Anti-fragile cryptoeconomic Systems through game theory

172. Triangle of harm by Vitalik Buterin

173. On Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy Vitalik Buterin's article on the role of cryptoeconomics in blockchain security

174. Settlement Finality Vitalik Buterin's article on the elusive topic of economic finality

175. Bancor is flawed Bancor's review by Hacking Distributed

176. To sink front-runners, send submarines Bancor's front-running woes by Hacking Distributed

177. Bitcoin's security model by Jameson Lopp

178. The Emergence of Cryptoeconomic Primitives by Jacob Horne

179. Token Curated Registries 1.0 by Mike Goldin

180. Continuous Token-Curated Registries: The Infinity of Lists by Simon de la Rouviere

181. Tokens 2.0: Curved Token Bonding in Curation Markets by Simon de la Rouviere

182. Solving Price Discovery Of Non-Rivalrous Goods (with Curved Bonding) by Simon de la Rouviere

183. Hashtag Markets by Simon de la Rouviere

184. How to Make Bonding Curves for Continuous Token Models

185. Re-Fungible Token (RFT) by Billy Rennekamp

186. Explain Bitcoin Like I'm Five

187. Bitcoin Explained (illustrated guide in simple terms)

188. Bitcoin for Beginners (Andreas Antonopoulos)

189. Hello Bitcoin (presentation materials)

190. Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin by CoinDesk

191. Bitcoin is Like...

192. A Bitcoin Webcomic (with educational notes)

193. Bitcoin Infographics

194. Inventing Bitcoin

195. The Trust Machine: The Story of Bitcoin

196. 21 Lessons - on philosophy, economics, & technology

197. Reading Bitcoin - translated articles

198. Why Bitcoin Matters

199. Why Bitcoin is Different

200. Bitcoin is Worse is Better

201. Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom

202. Nobody Understands Bitcoin

203. Why Blockchain is Hard

204. Why it's Hard to "Get" Bitcoin

205. Why We Need Web 3.0 – Gavin Wood

206. Understanding Web3 – Coinbase Blog

207. Making sense of Web3 – Josh Stark

208. The Blockchain Institute Web3 Portal

209. Web3 foundation

210. Demystifying Hyperledger Fabric (1/3): Fabric Architecture

211. Demystifying Hyperledger Fabric (2/3): Private Data Collection

212. Demystifying Hyperledger Fabric (3/3): Network Traffic Handling, Service Discovery, and Operations Service

213. Extending Hyperledger Fabric Network: Adding a New Peer

214. Add an organization to your existing Hyperledger Fabric blockchain network using an easy tool

215. Setting up a Blockchain Business Network With Hyperledger Fabric & Composer Running in Multiple Physical Machine

216. Setting up a multi node Hyperledger Fabric network with Docker Swarm

217. Setting up a Hyperledger Fabric Network with Multiple Chaincodes and Multiple Channels

218. Writing your first simple Hyperledger Fabric Chaincode in Go

219. How to Build an End-to-End encryption in Hyperledger Fabric

220. Hyperledger Fabric & couchdb, fantastic queries and where to find them

221. Setting up RESTful API Server for Hyperledger Fabric With NodeJS SDK

222. Configuring Node SDK’s Connection Profile for Multiple Channel - Multiple Chaincode

223. Bootstrapping Hyperledger Fabric 1.0

224. Decentralizing AI: Dreamers vs. Pragmatists. - Jesus Rodriguez, May 23, 2019.

225. How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I. - New York Times, October 20, 2018.

226. How to Actually Combine AI and Blockchain in One Platform - Hacker Noon, June 7, 2018.

227. Blockchain-based Machine Learning Marketplaces - Fred Ehrsam, March 13, 2018.

228. The convergence of AI and Blockchain: what’s the deal? - Francesco Corea, December 1, 2017.

229. Understand the Blockchain in Two Minutes (video), Law Librarian Blog: A quick introduction to the basics

230. What is Blockchain Technology, A Step by Step Guide for Beginners, BlockGeeks: A visual guide to how blockchains work

231. Blockchains & Distributed Ledger Technologies, Blockchainhub.net: Blockchains are part of a larger set of databases known as distributed ledgers. This article provides information about these.

232. The Basics of the Blockchain Revolution, Thomasnet: Possible future uses of Blockchain

233. Blockchain Demo, Anders.com: Video explanation; blockchain sandbox – try it for yourself

234. Blockchain Explained, Reuters Graphics: Interactive graphic demo

235. Blockchain State Regulation, National Conference of State Legislatures: Lists the status of state regulations; updates ongoing.

236. Regulation of Cryptocurrency Around the World, Law Library of Congress: Detailed international information about cryptocurrency laws

237. Cryptocurrency Is a Brave New World for Legal Ethics, SH Business News: Ethics issues with crypto and blockchain

238. What Is Cryptocurrency? Guide for Beginners, Cointelegraph: Explains the history and basics

239. Bitcoin, Bitcoin.com: This is not the official site for Bitcoin, but provides a good overview

240. Ethereum (combines currency and a programming language), Ethereum.org: Ethereum’s programming language, Solidity, is used for creating smart contracts

241. What Is Bitcoin?, Blockgeeks: Explains how Bitcoin works

242. Cryptocurrency Comparisons, IG: Describes competing currencies

243. Cryptocurrency 2018 (Legal Issues), Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation: Provides information about cryptocurriences and outlines current legal issues

244. A Beginner’s Guide to Smart Contracts, BlockGeeks: A detailed and visual guide to smart contracts

245. Blockchain 101 for Lawyers, Part 1, Part 2, Law Technology Today: An introduction to the legal aspects of blockchain and what legal services might be affected.

246. Build Your First Smart Contract, Crypto Currently: Ready to try programming a contract yourself? This tutorial provides the resources.

247. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, Coursera: The first sections provide a detailed technical overview of how crypto and blockchains work. This course was created a few years ago, so the use cases are outdated.

Videos

1. Watch Explaining Blockchain to 5 different Generations

2. Watch How does a blockchain work

3. Watch How does bitcoin actually work?

4. Watch Smart contracts - Simply Explained

5. Watch Smart Contracts Programming Tutorials -By Vlad Wulf

6. Watch What is Ethereum? A Beginner’s Explanation

7. Simply Explained Playlist by SAVJEE (highly recommended): YouTube

8. Simple Handon using JAVASCRIPT - SAVJEE (highly recommended): YouTube

9. Siraj Raval youtube cryptocurrencies series: YouTube

10. Best Handon course by DApp University (highly recommended) complete playlist: Youtube

11. Bitcoin explained and made simple (3m:24s) by The Guardian

12. The Essence of How Bitcoin Works (Non-Technical) (5m:24s) by Curious Inventor

13. Blockchain University — Bitcoin & the Blockchain: An Introduction (26m:16s) by @ChristopherA

14. Bitcoin 101 - What is Bitcoin? (22m:32s) by James D'Angelo WBN

15. Blockchain University — Bitcoin Keys Addresses and Wallets (1h:06m:43s) by @ChristopherA

16. Bitcoin Sidechains (5m:54s) by Diginomics

17. How Bitcoin Works in 5 Minutes (Technical) (5m:25s) by Curious Inventor

18. How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood (22m:24s) by Curious Inventor

19. Mechanics of Bitcoin (1h:19m:49s) by Princeton Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course

20. Programming Bitcoin Youtube Channel by Murray

21. Coding Multi-Signature Addresses by D'Angelo

22. Balaji Srinivasan gives a quick talk at Goldman Sachs. (14 min)

23. Balaji Srinivasan on Silicon Valley’s ultimate exit, the USA the Microsoft of nations (16 min)

24. Beyond Bitcoin - Block Chains and the Future of Trustless Computing (27 min)

25. Bitcoin Is Exciting Because It's Cheap - Bill Gates

26. Bitcoin threatens Kleptocracy (7 min):

27. Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.(11min) - Paul Kemp- Robertson

28. Convergex Group, Nick Colas (3min):

29. Defining bitcoin ownership, 2 min

30. Ending the Federal Reserve's Monopoly (6 min):

31. Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin - Reihan Salams

32. How Cryptocurrencies Can Succeed: the Stripe Perspective(20min) - Greg Brockman

33. How the Blockchain is Changing Money and Business (19 min) - Don Tapscott

34. Internet vs Bitcoin (3min):

35. Join The Bitcoin Revolution (4min):

36. TEDx, Crytpocurrencies like Bitcoin are coming, and it's a good thing (11min): - Juan Llanos

37. Powerful Technology Transforming Society: (6min)

38. Quick Introduction to Bitcoin (5min)

39. Stefan Molyneux- Money, Power and Politics (30min):

40. Stopping War: (1 min)

41. TEDx, Distributing Power & Trust (18min) - Eric Spano

42. Testimony for the Australian Senate Commitee on Economics References(36min)

43. The Future of Bitcoin: New Applications and Rebuilding the banking system: (28min) - Mike Hearn

44. The Story of Genesis: (3min)

45. The future will be decentralized (14mins) - Charles Hoskinson

46. Xapo, the history of money (5 min):

47. Masters of Blockchain (11 episodes)

48. Consensus Consensus Algorithm - Andreas Antonopoulos

49. Intro to Casper Karl Floersch presenting Ethereum's Casper PoS

50. PoS roundtable PoS roundtable with Joseph Poon, Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Dominic Williams, Zack Hess at Cryptoeconomicon 2015

51. PoW roundtable PoW roundtable with Tim Swanson, Vitalik Buterin and Peter Todd at Cryptoeconomicon 2015

52. Proof of Stake - Technion Cyber and Computer Security Summer School and presentation deck

53. CESC2017 - Casper Proof of Stake

54. Hangout - Ethereum PoS: Casper FFG In Depth and the presentation

55. Hangout - Ethereum PoS: Casper & Smart Contract Consensus Overview and the presentation deck

56. Game Theory in Bitcoin Game Theory approach behind the motivation for Bitcoin mining

57. CESC2017 - Cryptoeconomics in Casper

58. What is Cryptoeconomics Vlad Zamfir introducing Cryptoeconomics

59. Introduction to Cryptoeconomics Vitalik Buterin introducing Cryptoeconomics. The corresponding presentation deck is available here

60. Hard problems in Cryptoeconomics Vitalik Buterin discussing hard problems with cryptoeconomics

61. The Cryptoeconomic way Vitalik Buterin discussing cryptoeconomics.

62. Cryptoeconomic Protocols In the Context of Wider Society Vitalik Buterin discussing cryptoeconomics. The corresponding presentation deck is available here

63. The current state of Cryptoeconomics The current state of Cryptoeconomics by Vlad Zamfir

64. Programmable Incentives by Karl Floersch at Devcon 3

65. Hard problems in cryptoeconomics by Vitalik Buterin

66. Cryptoeconomic Primitives

67. Global Scale Research Networks and Cryptoeconomics

68. Towards a Practice of Token Engineering by Trent McConaghy

69. Cryptoeconomic Theory an on-going series by Viktor Makarskyy with part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4

70. The Raiden Network, a technical introduction

71. Short introduction to the The Raiden Network by Lefteris Karapetsas

72. State Channels explained in detail by Ameen Soleimani

73. The costs of hacking Bitcoin Sybil attacks explained

74. Game theory and Network Attacks- How to destroy Bitcoin by by Max Fang 03/2017

75. Game theory and Network Attacks- How to destroy Bitcoin by Nadir Akhtar and Aparna Krishnan 11/2017

76. 51% Attacks: Pools and Game Theory

77. Nothing at stake Introducing the nothing at stake attack

78. Security Considerations of the Casper Protocol Vlad Zamfir at Standford's Blockchain Protocol Analysis and Security Engineering 2017

79. Cryptography for Cryptocurrency

80. Bitcoin - Cryptographic hash functions

81. Hashed based signatures An illustrated primer

82. BBC Documentary Adam Curtis' "Fuck you buddy" BBC documentary

83. How Bitcoin Works (non technical) (5 min video)

84. How Bitcoin Works (a bit technical) (5 min video)

85. How Bitcoin Works (very technical) (26 min video)

86. How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood (22 min video)

87. Bitcoin 101 (Balaji Srinivasan)

88. The Value of Blockchains

89. DeFi Educational Videos by Chris Blec

Whitepapers

1. Bitcoin Whitepaper

2. Ethereum Whitepaper

3. Blockchain Consensus Protocols in the Wild

4. dBFT Whitepaper The Quest for Scalable Blockchain Fabric: Proof-of-Work vs. BFT Replication by IBM Research

5. Federated Byzantine Agreements by Stellar Development Foundation's David Mazieres

6. Research Paper on PoS vs. Pow by Bitfury

7. Demystifying Incentives in the Consensus Computer

8. Game Theory approach behind Bitcoin mining

9. Research Paper on the security model in PoW by ETH Zurich and others

10. A Note on Limits on Incentive Compatibility and Griefing Factors

11. Research Paper on eclipse attacks on the Bitcoin Network

12. Research Paper on eclipse attacks on the Ethereum Network

13. Research paper on hashrate-based double spend attack

14. Satoshi Risk Tables

15. MakerDAO Purple Paper

16. Sweetbridge Liquidity Protocol

17. Bancor Protocol

18. Maker Dai Stablecoin

19. Curation Markets by Simon de la Rouviere

20. The Economics of BitCoin Price Formation This paper analyses the relationship between BitCoin price and supply-demand fundamentals of Bitcoin

21. A Cost of Production Model for Bitcoin

22. The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol Analysis and Applications

23. Cryptocurrencies without PoW

24. Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain

25. Smart Contracts and Distributed Ledger – A Legal Perspective, ISDA: An in-depth white paper

Books

1. Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos LLC

2. Blockchain By Example =>https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business- intelligence/blockchain-example

3. Blockchain Explained: A Technology Guide to the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Fintech Revolution - R.J Simmons

4. Blockchain Fast and Simple - What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters: Understand the basics, join the revolution - Pierro Martini

5. Cryptocurrency Investment: How to Invest in Cryptocurrencies and Make Money in the Long-term - Tamas Torok

6. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World - Don and AlexTapscott

7. Blockchain Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Bitcoin and How to Use Blockchain for Your Benefit - Phil Stein

8. Blockchain The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Hidden Economy -s Oscar Flynt

9. Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy - Melanie Swan

10. Blockchain: Easiest Ultimate Guide To Understand Blockchain - Jared Norton

11. Blockchain: Quick Start Guide to Understanding Blockchain, the Biggest Revolution in Financial Technology and Beyond Since the Internet - Seth Ramsey

12. Blockchain: The Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Hidden Economy - Timothy Short

13. Blockchain: The Essential Guide to Understanding the Blockchain Revolution - Jeff Reed

14. Blockchain: The Future of Internet Innovation - Ideas, Applications and Uses for Blockchain Technology - Jerry Kershen

15. Blockchain: The Simple Guide To Everything You Need To Know - Jacob William

16. Bye Bye Banks?: How Retail Banks are Being Displaced, Diminished and Disintermediated by Tech Startups and What They Can Do to Survive - James Haycock

17. Decentralized Applications: Harnessing Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology - Siraj Raval

18. Financial Technology: This Book Bundle Includes FinTech and Blockchain - Jacob William

19. How to Program a Block Chain Explorer with Python and Bitcoin - Alex Gorale

20. The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology - William Mougayar

21. The FinTech Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries - Susanne Chishti and Janos Barberis

22. The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Prof Klaus Schwab

23. The Science of the Blockchain - Roger Wattenhofer

24. ValueWeb: How FinTech firms are using mobile and blockchain technologies to create the Internet of Value -Chris Skinner

25. Building Ethereum ĐApps -Roberto Infante

26. Mastering Ethereum, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood

27. The Internet of Money

28. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

29. The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

30. Blockchain Technology Explained: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide About Blockchain Wallet, Mining, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Zcash, Monero, Ripple, Dash, IOTA And Smart Contracts

31. Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

32. Mastering Bitcoin

33. Grokking Bitcoin

34. Programming Bitcoin

35. Bitcoin Money (children's book)

36. The Little Bitcoin Book (for beginners)

37. The Bitcoin Standard

38. The Internet of Money

39. The Age of Cryptocurrency

40. Inventing Bitcoin

41. Bitcoin Billionaires

42. The Book of Satoshi

43. Digital Gold

44. The Sovereign Individual - (pdf)

45. Human Action

46. The Ethics of Money Production

47. What Has Government Done to Our Money?

48. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

49. Economics in One Lesson

50. The Machinery of Freedom

51. Money, Sound and Unsound

52. How is Fiat Money Possible?

53. The Mystery of Banking

Podcasts

1. Disruptor Daily » Blockchain Disruption

2. Get Influential Bloggers Contacts

3. Crypto Token Talk

4. The Blockchain Show

5. Life in the Fast Chain | A Blockchain Podcast from R3

6. Analysis in Chains | News and Views on Blockchain

7. Blockchain360

8. Blockchain 2025

9. Insureblocks

10. The Enterprise Blockchain Review

11. Q&A on Casper Vlad Zamfir answering questions regarding Ethereum's Casper PoS

12. PoW attacks Podcast from 2015 on PoW attacks

13. Cryptoeconomics, Stablecoins, Casper with Vlad Zamfir, and corresponding transcript is available here

14. Fintech Podcast - Episode 151 Cryptoeconomics as explained by Dr Chris Berg

15. Cryptoeconomic Primitives by Trent McConaghy

16. The Bitcoin Podcast Network

17. Coin Mastery

18. The Bad Crypto Podcast

19. The Coin Offering

20. Unchained Podcast

21. Epicenter

22. Let’s Talk Bitcoin

23. The Bitcoin Podcast Network

24. The Crypto Cast Network

25. World Crypto Network

26. Noded Podcast with Pierre Rochard and Michael Goldstein

27. Tales from the Crypt with Marty Bent

28. Stephan Livera Podcast with Stephan Livera

29. Off Chain with Jimmy Song

30. The Tone Vays Podcast with Tony Vays

31. Bitcoin Knowledge with Trace Mayer

32. Bottom Shelf Bitcoin

33. Let's Talk Bitcoin with Adam B. Levine & Others

34. The Cryptoconomy with Guy Swann

35. Crypto Voices with Fernando Ulrich

36. The Bitcoin Game with Rob Mitchell

37. Bitcoins and Gravy with John Barrett

38. Bitcoin and Markets with Ansel Lindner

39. The Bitcoin News Show with Vortex

40. Bitcoin & Co Podcast with Anita Posch

41. Ledger Status with Brian Krogsgard

42. Crypto Bobby with Rob Paone

43. Unchained with Laura Shin

44. Unconfirmed with Laura Shin

45. Off The Chain with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano

46. Epicenter with Sébastien Couture, Brian Fabian Crain and Meher Roy

47. Proof of Podcast with Luke Martin

48. The Flippening with Clay Collins

49. Rekt Podcast with @Bunchubets @CCryptoChamber and @womenofcrypto

50. Bitcoin Uncensored with Chris DeRose

51. The BlockCrunch with Jason Choi

52. The Tatiana Show with Tatiana Moroz

53. a16z with Andreesson Horowitz

54. Invest Like the Best with Patrick OShaughnessy

55. Junseth’s World with Junseth

56. Bad Crypto

57. Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast

58. Bitcoin & Co. Podcast

59. Chaincode

60. Citizen Bitcoin

61. The Coin Pod

62. Crypto 101

63. Crypto Voices

64. The Cryptonomy Podcast

65. Let's Talk Bitcoin

66. Noded

67. Off the Chain

68. Stephan Livera Podcast

69. Tales from the Crypt

70. Unchained

71. Unconfirmed

72. Unhashed Podcast

73. Unscrypted

74. Untold Stories

75. What Bitcoin Did

Hackathons

1. https://www.blockathon.pl/

2. https://hackital.io/

3. https://ethglobal.co/

4. https://ethberlin.com/

5. https://ethindia.co/

6. https://ethbuenosaires.com/

7. https://ethdenver.com/

Newsletters

1. EthHub Weekly Newsletter

2. Week In Ethereum

3. The Defiant

4. Bankless

5. Our Network

6. NFTY

7. Messari

8. Coin Metrics

9. The Block

10. OrgTech Weekly

11. Long Reads Sunday

12. Proof of Work

13. Tony Sheng

14. Global Coin Research

15. DeFi Weekly

16. Token Economy

17. Token Daily

Events

1. DAS London

2. Blockchain Economy

3. CoinGeek Conference London

4. Blockchain Expo Global

5. The Blockchain Innovation & Investment Event in Dubai (BII SUMMIT)

6. Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2020

7. IstanBlock 2020

8. Romania Blockchain Summit

9. ANON Summit 2020

10. TEAMZ Blockchain Summit Tokyo 2020

11. Blockchain Expo Europe

Forums

1. ICOCRYPTO

2. Cryptocurrency

3. Blockchain

4. ICO

5. UpcomingICOs

6. Bitcoin Talk

7. CryptoCurrencyTalk

8. CryptoList

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