Resources

Some material to start with on the development of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies as speculative instruments:

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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System  by Satoshi Nakamoto

Ethereum Whitepaper  by Vitalik Buterin

Cryptoeconomics 101 by Nick Tomaino, and his Tokens, Tokens, and More Tokens

Fat Protocols by Joel Monegro

Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic by Matt Huang

The Great Monetary Inflation by Paul Tudor Jones

A Crypto Thesis – Open Financial Systems by Joey Krug

And What Has the Blockchain Ever Done for Us? by Balaji Srinivasan

How does Ethereum work, anyway? by Preethi Kasireddy

Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics by Josh Stark

Why Decentralization Matters by Chris Dixon

Why Bitcoin Matters by Marc Andreessen

 

And some additional information on DeFi, Web3, NFTs, blockchain infrastructure, and more:

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A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance by Sid Coelho-Prabhu

The Future of Decentralized Finance by Linda Xie

Making Sense of Web 3 by Josh Stark

·A beginner’s guide to NFTs by Linda Xie

Why Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin

DeFi Token Models by dYdX

The Future of Crypto Trading: Decentralized Exchanges by Deniz Kahramaner

What explains the rise of AMMs? by Haseeb Qureshi

Scaling DeFi — Layer One by Remco Bloemen

The scalability problem, (very) simply explained by bloXroute Team

Crypto Mining 101 — Overview & Landscape of the Mining Industry by Chris McCann

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