Bitcoin & Blockchain Reading Lists

Bitcoin & Blockchain Education
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CUB like Satoshi? Recommended Bitcoin & Blockchain Top Reading List
(by Chronological order)

  1. The Economist. (1988). “Get Ready for the Phoenix.” https://bitcoin.eu/1988-economist-magazine-prediction-come-true/
  2. Berners-Lee, Tim (2000). Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web. New York: Harper.
  3. Nash, John F. Jr. (2002). “Ideal Money.” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Jul.): pp. 4-11. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.2325-8012.2002.tb00474.x
  4. Szabo, Nick (2002). “Shelling Out: The Origins of Money.” Shelling Out: The Origins of Money | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
  5. Grigg, Ian. (2005). “Triple Entry Accounting. Systemics. (Work-in-progress) Triple Entry Accounting
  6. Nakamoto, Satoshi (2008). “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Bitcoin - Open source P2P money
  7. Champagne, Phil (2014). The Book of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. E53 Publishing.
  8. Lehdonvirta, Vili and Edward Castronova (2014). Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis. MIT Press.
  9. Grigg, Ian. (2015). “Financial Cryptography.” Systemics, Inc. Financial Cryptography: The Sum of All Chains - Let's Converge!
  10. Narayanan, Arvind and Jeremy Clark (2017). “Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree: The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.” ACMQueue. Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree - ACM Queue
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CUB like Satoshi? Recommended Bitcoin & Blockchain Top Background Reading List
(by chronological order)

General / Business / History

  1. Orcutt, Mike (2015). “Why Bitcoin Could Be Much More Than a Currency.” Why Bitcoin Could Be Much More Than a Currency | MIT Technology Review
  2. Urgessa, Girum S. and Paul Vigna (2015). The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order. St. Martin’s Press.
  3. Tapscott, Don and Alex (2016). Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business and the World. Portfolio.
  4. UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (2016). “Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond blockchain.” Government Office for Science. Distributed ledger technology: beyond block chain - GOV.UK
  5. Jeffries, Daniel (2017). “Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency.” Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency | HackerNoon
  6. Iansiti, Marco and Karim R, Lakhani (2017). “The Truth about Blockchain.” Harvard Business Review, January–February: pp. 118–127. https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-truth-about-blockchain
  7. Ver, Roger, Tucker, Jeffrey, Patterson, Steve (2024). Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC. Self-Published by Roger Ver.

Technical

  1. Howland, Gary (1996). “Development of an Open and Flexible Payment System.” Development of an Open and Flexible Payment System
  2. Lamport, L., R. Shostak and M. Pease (1982). “The Byzantine Generals Problem.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 4 (3): pp. 382-401.
  3. Szabo, Nick (1996). “Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Markets.” http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/smart_contracts_2.html

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