A curated index of the best learning resources on the Internet for blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
This list covers the topics of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. If you’re completely new to these ideas, start with Start Here. This should tell you everything you’d ever need to know about crypto; but if you’re still curious, explore everything else below. Resources marked with ❗️ are difficult, and those with 🌟 are our favorite.
- Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
- My Crypto Guide — The Definitive Crypto guide for Beginners and Veterans Alike.
- Devcon2: Ethereum in 25 Minutes by Vitalik Buterin.
- Bitcoin Fireside Chat with Marc Andreessen and Balaji Srinivasan - Coinsumm.it
- Satoshi Nakamoto — Anonymous inventor of Bitcoin.
- Vitalik Buterin — Co-founder of Ethereum & Bitcoin Magazine.
- Don Tapscott — Co-founder of Blockchain Research Institute & author of Blockchain Revolution.
- Nick Szabo — Early researcher of digital contracts and digital currency.
- Ralph Merkle — Computer scientist known for inventing public key cryptography and the Merkle Tree.
- Brian Armstrong — Co-founder & CEO of Coinbase, a digital currency wallet service.
- Erik Voorhees — CEO of ShapeShift, a digital asset exchange.
- Adam Back — Invented a predecessor to Bitcoin called hashcash, now CEO of Blockstream.
- Christian Catalini — MIT professor researching blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
- Balaji Srinivasan — Co-founder & CEO at Earn.com (formerly 21.co), Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, teaches Stanford’s Bitcoin engineering course.
- Hal Finney — Computer scientist who received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi.
- 21 Terms to Understand Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain Basics: Glossary and use cases by IBM.
- Blockchain Glossary by Blockgeeks.
- Blockchain Dictionary by Jordan Odinsky in Hacker Noon.
- What is Ethereum? A Step-by-Step Beginner’s Guide by Blockgeeks.
- What is Ethereum? by CoinDesk.
- My Crypto Guide — The Definitive Crypto guide for Beginners and Veterans Alike.
- WTF is The Blockchain? by Mohit Mamoria in Hacker Noon.
- Blockchain Demo -- a step-by-step guide to understand how blockchains work. ❗️
- Coinbase’s blog
- Money and State
- Chris Dixon’s Crypto token roundup
- Andreessen Horowitz’s blog on blockchain & cryptocurrencies
- Nick Szabo’s blog
- Vitalik Buterin’s blog
- MIT’s Blockchain blog
- MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative
- Christian Catalini’s blog
- Princeton’s blog about bitcoin
- How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
- Bits on blocks
- Ralph Merkle’s blog ❗️
- Ethereum
- Coin Mastery
- Crypto Investor
- Let’s Talk Bitcoin
- DataDash — Channel focused on trading and technical analysis.
- Ethereum Foundation
- Blockchain at Berkeley
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos’ YouTube channel about Bitcoin
- Blockchain University
- MIT Bitcoin Club
- Satoshi Pollen
- Bitcoin Foundation
- Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work? 🌟
- Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - Blockchain | WIRED 🌟
- What is Bitcoin? — A beginner’s guide to all things Bitcoin.
- Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain — YouTube series made by TechCrunch.
- The Rise of Bitcoin
- The real value of bitcoin and crypto currency technology - The Blockchain explained
- What is Blockchain
- Bitcoin Might Fail but the Blockchain is Here to Stay by Brock Pierce on WIRED.
- The Evolution of Bitcoin: Talks at GS Session Highlights by Balaji Srinivasan for Goldman Sachs.
- Ethereum Explained
- How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood 🌟
- Visual Demonstration of a Blockchain
- How Digital Currency Will Change the World by Brian Armstrong.
- Blockchain, Explained by Zach Church at MIT Sloan.
- Blockchain’s next steps by Amy MacMillan Bankson at MIT Sloan.
- The Best Tips to Buy Ethereum: a guide for beginners
- This Is the Reason Ethereum Exists by MIT Technology Review.
- Why Bitcoin Could Be Much More Than a Currency by MIT Technology Review.
- What the Hell is an Initial Coin Offering? by MIT Technology Review.
- Blockchain 101 by Coin Center.
- Why the blockchain matters by Reid Hoffman for WIRED.
- Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why should anyone care?
- ICO Pros & Cons: Cutting Through The Hype
- The Evolution of Ethereum by Vitalik Buterin.
- Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree | ACM Queue, Aug 2017 ❗️
- Some Thoughts on the State of Bitcoin and Ethereum by Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures.
- The Meaning of Decentralization by Vitalik Buterin.
- Visions Part 1: The Value of Blockchain Technology by Vitalik Buterin.
- Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right by Brian Armstrong.
- Shelling Out: The Origins of Money by Nick Szabo. 🌟
- No, non-Bitcoin Blockchains are not “Disrespectful” to Satoshi by Erik Voorhees.
- The Importance of Bitcoin Not Being Money by Erik Voorhees.
- Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design by Chris Dixon.
- Fat Protocols by Joel Monegro for Union Square Ventures. 🌟
- The God Protocols by Nick Szabo.
- Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity by Vitalik Buterin.
- Minimum Viable Blockchain by Ilya Grigorik. ❗️
- Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks by Nick Szabo. ❗️
- Merkling in Ethereum by Vitalik Buterin. ❗️
- Secrecy, Authentication and Private Key Systems by Ralph Merkle. ❗️
- Protocols For Public Key Cryptosystems by Ralph Merkle. ❗️
- Secure Communication Over Insecure Channels by Ralph Merkle. ❗️
- Blockchain Tokens and the dawn of the Decentralized Business Model by Fred Ehrsam for Coinbase.
- Bit Gold by Nick Szabo.
- Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability by Nick Szabo.
- Cryptoeconomics 101 by Nick Tomaino.
- The Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency by Vitalik Buterin. ❗️
- On Long-Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models by Vitalik Buterin. ❗️
- Building the Bridge: Why Compliance is Key to Digital Currencies Success by Brian Armstrong.
- Bitcoin and the Seperation of Money and State by Erik Voorhees.
- DAOs, Democracy and Governance by Ralph Merkle. ❗️ 🌟
- How the blockchain is changing money and business — TED Talk by Don Tapscott, the author of Blockchain Revolution.
- Alex Tapscott: "Blockchain Revolution” for Talks at Google.
- Paul Vigna & Michael. Casey: "The Age of Cryptocurrency”
- Brian Patrick Eha: "How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance”
- Bitcoin Fireside Chat with Marc Andreessen and Balaji Srinivasan - Coinsumm.it
- Bitcoin Fireside Chat with Chamath Palihapitiya - Coinsumm.it
- Why Bitcoin Will Change Everything by Ian Lee for Berkeley-Haas.
- The Winklevoss Twins Eat, Sleep, and Breathe Bitcoin by TechCrunch.
- Decentralizing Everything with Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin | Disrupt SF 2017 by TechCrunch.
- How the blockchain will radically transform the economy by Bettina Warburg at TED.
- We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers by Rachel Botsman at TED.
- The future of money by Neha Narula at TED.
- Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency by Paul Kemp-Robertson at TED.
- Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013 for Y Combinator. 🌟
- Bitcoin 101 by Balaji Srinivasan for Khosla Ventures.
- Devcon2: Ethereum in 25 Minutes by Vitalik Buterin. 🌟
- William Mougayar: "Blockchains: Past, Present and Future” for Talks at Google.
- Beyond Bitcoin: The Blockchain by Chris Dixon, Ed Felten, and Matthew Green for Andreessen Horowitz.
- Arun Sundararajan: "The Sharing Economy and the Future of Digital Governance" for Talks at Google.
- David Mazières: "The Stellar Consensus Protocol” for Talks at Google. ❗️
- Blockchain Revolution by Don & Alex Tapscott.
- Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper.
- Wildcat Currency: How the Virtual Money Revolution Is Transforming the Economy by Edward Castronova.
- The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna.
- Blockchain: Blueprint for a new economy by Melanie Swan (published by O’Reilly).
- Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (published by O’Reilly).
- Decentralized Applications: Harnessing Bitcoin’s Blockchain Technology by Siraj Raval (published by O’Reilly).
- Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (published by O’Reilly).
- Bitcoin by Khan Academy.
- Introduction to Bitcoin and Decentralized Technology on Pluralsight.
- Blockchain essentials by IBM.
- The Basics of Blockchain on Udemy.
- Entrepreneurship Without Borders by MIT OCW. 🌟
- Blockchain 101: The Basics on Udemy.
- Bitcoin Engineering by Stanford.
- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies by Stanford.
- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Princeton University on Coursera (see this also).
- Courses by Blockgeeks.
- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course
- MSc in Digital Currency - University of Nicosia
- Byte Academy’s fintech program
- Blockchain Training by Hyperledger.
- Awesome Crypto Currency Tools & Algorithms - A guide (for humans!) to crypto-currencies and their algos.
- EthList — The Crowdsourced Ethereum Reading List.
- Awesome Non-Financial Blockchain — A curated list of projects that build non-financial applications of blockchain.
- Digital currency reading list by Dan Romero from Coinbase.
- Very deep-dive on Ethereum Reading List — Reading list made by Consensys.
- The Ultimate Reading List for Blockchain, Token and Cryptocurrency Sources
- CryptoList — A curated collection of blockchain & cryptocurrency resources.
- Reading List for Decentralized Systems
- Awesome Cryptography
- Blockchain Papers — A curated list of blockchain-related academic papers. ❗️
- /r/Bitcoin 🌟
- /r/Ethereum
- /r/BitcoinBeginners
- /r/BitcoinDiscussion
- /r/Best_of_Crypto
- Steemit — blog built on top of a blockchain database called Steem.
- /r/CryptoCurrency
- Earn.com Facebook Community
- /r/BitcoinTechnology
- CoinFund Slack
- Bitcoin Core Slack
- /r/BitcoinMining
- /r/BlockChain
- Ethereum Gitter
- /r/Crypto — subreddit about cryptography. ❗️
- /r/iexec — subreddit about Blockchain-based decentralized cloud computing. ❗️
- Byte Academy’s blockchain workshop featured by Bloomberg
- Blockchain NYC
- San Francisco BlockChain collective
- Blockchain & SmartContract Innovators in SF.
- The Atlanta Blockchain
- Blockchain Melbourne
- Planet BlockChain Dubai
- Blockchain & Ethereum Spain
- Byte Academy: Python, FinTech, Blockchain, DataSci, Quant in NYC.
- Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Community - Chicago
- India Bitcoin Blockchain
- Local Bitcoin Communities
- A step by step guide on how to begin the process of investing in cryptocurrency
- What are the exit prospects of an ICO-funded startup?
- What should everyone know about Ethereum?
- What is a blockchain?
- How do I become a bitcoin/blockchain expert?
- What are non-Bitcoin applications of blockchain technology?
- How is the Ethereum blockchain different from the Bitcoin blockchain?
- What are great resources to learn blockchain technologies?
- How does Bitcoin Blockchain work and what are the rules behind it?
- In layman's terms, what is "Blockchain Technology"?
- General Bitcoin Questions
- Vitalik Buterin: "Putin knows what blockchain is – this is the hype"
- How are Ethereum and Bitcoin centralized and decentralized?
- I want to learn everything about the blockchain, where do I start? 🌟
- Epicenter.tv — Epicenter takes you to heart of perhaps the most important technological revolution of our time, the rise of decentralized technologies.
- Unchained — Laura Shin talks with industry pioneers across tech, financial services, health care, government and other sectors about how the blockchain and fintech will open up new opportunities for incumbents, startups and everyday people to interact more efficiently, directly and globally.
- Coin Mastery — Current events of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
- BlockChannel
- The ICO Alert Podcast
- Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast
- The Ether Review
- Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin: VICE Podcast 027
- Hash Power – A Documentary on Blockchains & Cryptocurrencies
- a16z Podcast: Banking on the Blockchain
- a16z Podcast: The Blockchain, in Congress
- a16z Podcast: Blockchain vs./and Bitcoin 🌟
- a16z Podcast: Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- a16z Podcast: Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- The Quiet Mastery of Cryptocurrency — Nick Szabo by Tim Ferriss. 🌟
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- CoinTelegraph
- ETHNews
- CoinDesk (owned by Digital Currency Group, which has a stake in a competing cryptocurrency)
- CoinSpectator
- Bitnewstoday
- CoinJournal
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. 🌟
- SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies by Bonneau J, Miller A, Clark J, Narayanan A, Kroll JA, Felten EW. S&P '15. ❗️
- The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications by Garay J, Kiayias A, Leonardos N. EUROCRYPT '15. ❗️
- The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol with Chains of Variable Difficulty by Garay J. Kiayias A, Leonardos N. '16. ❗️
- On Bitcoin as a public randomness source by Bonneau J, Clark J, Goldfeder S. '15. ❗️
- Distributed Cryptography Based on the Proofs of Work by Andrychowicz M, and Dziembowski S. '14. ❗️
- "Ethereum": A next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform by Vitalik Buterin in 2014. ❗️ 🌟
- Ethereum: A secure decentralised generalised transaction ledger by Wood G. '14. ❗️
- Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin by Saxena A, Misra J, Dhar A. FC '14. ❗️
- How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth? by Ron D, Shamir A. FC '14. ❗️
- On the Malleability of Bitcoin Transactions by Andrychowicz M, Dziembowski S, Malinowski D, Mazurek Ł. FC '15. ❗️
- On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains by Croman K, Decker C, Eyal I, Gencer AE, Juels A, Kosba A, Miller A, Saxena P, Shi E, Sirer EG, Song D. FC '16. ❗️
- Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol by Eyal I, Gencer AE, Sirer EG, Van Renesse R. USENIX '16. ❗️
- Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains by Adam Back, Matt Corallo, Luke Dashjr, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Andrew Miller, Andrew Poelstra, Jorge Timón, and Pieter Wuille. ’14. ❗️
- The Bitcoin P2P network by Donet Donet JA, Perez-Sola C, Herrera-Joancomart J. FC '14. ❗️
- Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem by Soska K, Christin N. USENIX '15. ❗️
- Escrow protocols for cryptocurrencies: How to buy physical goods using Bitcoin by Goldfeder S, Bonneau J, Gennaro R, Narayanan A. FC '17. ❗️
- Trust Is Risk: A Decentralized Financial Trust Platform by Thyfronitis Litos OS, Zindros D. FC '17. ❗️
- Trust in decentralized anonymous marketplaces by Zindros D. '15. ❗️
- Money as IOUs in social trust networks & a proposal for a decentralized currency network protocol by Fugger R. '04. ❗️