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A curated list of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Crytocurrency resources

by _njrc on 10/20/16, 6:17 PM with 18 comments

  • by quirkafleeg on 10/21/16, 4:04 AM

    I can see why Blockchain Books may include one or two Amazon links (though not everything being a link to Amazon), but why is literally every so-called "resource" under Bitcoin and Ethereum and Smart Contracts also simply a link to Amazon?

    A quick Google brings up results like:

    https://souptacular.gitbooks.io/ethereum-tutorials-and-tips-...

    What makes your list of Amazon links better than everything on that page? Have you even read and/or reviewed all of the books you're linking to? If not, why are you recommending them to other people?

    Why is your list of Amazon links under "Bitcoin" better than something like this (found in a half second Google):

    https://github.com/solocshaw/Bitcoin-Resource-List

    Which somehow manages to contain zero Amazon links, even under Books, which links to the free Github hosted version of Andreas Antonopoulos' Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies, unlike your list which, like most of the other "resources" you list, simply links to Amazon.

  • by seycombi on 10/20/16, 8:21 PM

    Don't forget the Princeton / Coursera course:

    Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNcSSleedtfyDuhBvOQzFzQ/vid... https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

  • by wslh on 10/20/16, 7:42 PM

    I put this [1] blockchain key metrics for clarifying different technologies. It is difficult to talk about blockchains without comparing apples and oranges, mainly when you compare public to private blockchains.

    [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DQ770nGnHfJOoRSqTLmI...

  • by emmelaich on 10/21/16, 7:56 AM

    You should add tezos.com

        "WHAT IS TEZOS?
    Tezos is the first and only blockchain
    implementation operating with decentralized
    governance.

    Tezos is a distributed consensus platform
    with meta-consensus capability. Tezos not
    only comes to consensus about state, like
    BTC or ETH. It also comes to consensus about
    how the protocol and the nodes should adapt
    and upgrade.

  • by coolandsmartrr on 10/21/16, 6:12 AM

    There are many books in each category, but it would be easier to reference if they were ordered by usefulness or importance.

  • by erikj on 10/21/16, 10:17 AM

    No mention of Trilema?

  • by brighton36 on 10/20/16, 6:49 PM

    Blockchains are for exiting your ponzi