Share your favorite cryptocurrency resource!

The world of digital currency is always changing — and the resources we have to keep up and learn are changing too. Share the blogs, newsletters, and organizations you read to stay current so we can create a cryptocurrency resource library for everyone to explore.

Resources

More on your Instructor, Meltem, and CoinShares

Meltem’s twitter feed and Medium feed
Meltem’s personal site which lists disclosures, investments, and other content for further exploration
CoinShares site
CoinShares on Medium

Bitcoin Whitepaper

The original 9-page PDF that changed everything - the Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto

Technical Concepts

A Beginner’s Guide to Crypto Assets by Linda Xie
How does Ethereum work, anyways? by Preethi Kasireddy
A primer on distributed consensus, by Tess Rinearson

Mining and Networks

Bitcoin Network Mining Dynamics by Chris Bendiksen (from CoinShares)
Bitcoin Miners Beware by StopAndDecrypt

Social and Ideological Concepts

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by Timothy May, circa 1992
The Cypherpunk Manifesto by Eric Hughes, circa 1993
A post on “social scalability” by Nick Szabo
How Bitcoin Narratives have Changed over Time by Nic Carter and Hasufly

Books on Technology and User Behavior

Crossing the Chasm - a book by Geoffrey A. Moore
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages - a book by Carlota Perez

Terminology

A Reference Guide to Crypto Terminology
Complexity Theater by Nathaniel Whittemore

Investing

Key Insights into Affluent Millennials by Edelman
Larry Fink’s Annual Letter to CEOs - A Sense of Purpose (January 2018) by Blackrock
Crypto: Traders’ Paradise, Investors’ Hell by Alex Krüger

Use Cases

Store of Value - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati
Blockchain - Why Blockchain is Hard and Alternatives to Blockchain by Jimmy Song
Securities Issuance - Your Guide to the Security Token Ecosystem by Tatiana Koffman

Where to Continue

Bitcoin Analyst Brain by Chris Bendiksen (CoinShares Research)
So You Want to Work in Crypto by Meltem Demirors
Check out Meetup.com for MeetUps
Twitter folks I like to follow, all of whom spoke at the CryptoSprings conference I help organize
Online Forums and Podcasts I like include TokenDaily, Messari, and CoinDesk for news, for podcasts What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack, Unchained with Laura Shin, and Off the Chain with Anthony Pompliano (note: I’m an investor in TokenDaily and Messari)
Newsletters I like include the more technical Proof of Work newsletter and the Long Reads Sunday which is a weekly crypto breakdown of hot takes from Twitter
Here’s a list of open (anyone can join) cryptocurrency Telegram groups — engage at your own peril!

Going Deeper

The History of Money - An Honest Account of Fiat Money by Su Zhu and Hasu
Planting Bitcoin, a series on the birth of bitcoin by Dan Held
Programming Bitcoin workshops with Jimmy Song

Watch more classes on Skillshare

How to Live Online: 5 Ways to Shape Your Digital World — David Polgar
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence: Understanding Machine Learning — Christian Heilmann
Minimum Viable Product: Validate Your Startup Idea for Less than $1,000 — Michael Karnjanaprakorn

Jonathon Martinez

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