Familiarizing youself with the goings-on in a bleeding-edge technology like cryptocurrency may seem overwhelming at first, but it turns out there are in fact a small number of influential writings that have spawned a lot of what is happening in the crypto space. The purpose of this document is to point newcomers to these writings.
- Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, (2008)
- Gavin Wood, Ethereum: A Secure Decentralized Generalized Transaction Ledger, (2015)
- J. Poon and T. Dryja, The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments, (2015)
- A. Back et al, Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains, (2014)
- Nick Szabo, "The Idea of Smart Contracts" (1997)
- Nick Szabo, "Shelling Out" (2002)
- Marc Andreessen, "Why Bitcoin Matters" (2014)
- Joel Monegro, Fat Protocols (2016)
- Vlad Zamfir and Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum 1.x: On blockchain interop and scaling, Devcon 0