Bitcoin

Bitcoin

Immersion

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Immersion Lvl 1: The Foundations

Suggested method of reading: chronologically

  • [2008] πŸ“– Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [Satoshi Nakamoto]
  • [2013] πŸ“– How the Bitcoin protocol actually works [Michael Nielsen]
  • [2017] πŸ“Ί But how does Bitcoin actually work? [3Blue1Brown]
  • [2019] πŸ“– Bitcoin and the return to hard money [Piers Kicks]
  • [2021] πŸ“Ί Philosophy of Bitcoin from 1st principles [Fridman & Breedlove]
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Immersion Lvl 2: The Motivations

Suggested method of reading: chronologically

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Immersion Lvl 3: Advanced BTC
  • [2020] πŸ“– Bitcoin bubbles; the optimal distribution mechanism [Simos]
  • [2020] πŸ“– PoW Mining: The role of producers in Bitcoin’s market structure [Simos]
  • [2020] πŸ“–Β The Mathematics of Bitcoin β€” SHA-256 [Toby Chitty]
  • [2019] πŸ“– A New Sidechain Design for Bitcoin [Su Zhu & Hasu]
  • [2018] πŸ“– Bitcoin as a Privacycoin [Bitcoin Magazine]
  • [2016] πŸ“– Bitcoin is the Sewer Rat of Currencies [Mark Frauenfelder]
  • [2018] πŸ“– Who Controls Bitcoin Core? [Jameson Lopp]
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Immersion Lvl 4: 'Let there be Lightning'

[2018] πŸ“– The Lightning Network [Jordan Clifford]

Other

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Tools
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Trends
  • [2022] πŸ“–Β Turks Pile Into Bitcoin and Tether to Escape Plunging Lira [WSJ]
  • [2016] πŸ“– The Blockchain Gang [Slate]
  • [2016] πŸ“– Can Bitcoin Be Used For Good? [The Atlantic]
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Reports
  • [2021] πŸ“• The State of Lightning [Arcane Research]
  • [2021] πŸ“• Getting Off Zero: Bitcoin's role in modern investment portfolios [Fidelity]
  • [2019] πŸ“• A model for Bitcoin’s security and the declining block subsidy [Hasu]
  • [2019] πŸ“• Money, Bitcoin and Time [Robert Breedlove]
  • [2019] πŸ“•Β The Bitcoin Reformation [Tuur Demeester]
  • [2019] πŸ“•Β Bitcoin Heavy Accumulation [Tuur Demeester]
  • [2018-2021] πŸ“• Mastering Bitcoin 2nd Edition [Andreas Antonopoulos]