“First step to understanding Bitcoin: admitting you don’t understand Bitcoin. Final step: realizing that “understanding” is a moving target.” – Jameson Lopp
Library
Beginners Guides and Intros into Bitcoin
Bitcoin Whitepaper : A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto
Money, Blockchains, & Social Scalability
Nick Szabo
Marc Andreessen
What is Bitcoin A Step by Step Guide
Block Geeks
Bitcoin – The Internet of Money
Naval Ravikant
Beginners Guides and Intros into Ethereum
Beginners Guides and Intros into Digital Assets & Tokens
Joel Monegro
Beginners Guide Series on Cryptoassets
Linda Xie
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why should anyone care?
Preethi Kasireddy
Naval Ravikant
Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation
Albert Wenger
Tokens, Tokens and More Tokens
Nick Tomaino
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Investing, Valuation & Trading
Chris Burniske
Structuring Optimal Token Sales Amidst 2017’s ICO Mania
Brendan Bernstein
A Tactical Guide to Investing in Blockchain Assets
Nick Tomaino
Rethinking Network Value to Transactions (NVT) Ratio
Dmitry Kalichkin
The Blockchain Token Velocity Problem
Kyle Samani
On Value, Velocity and Monetary Theory
Alex Evans
Averaging In And Averaging Out
Fred Wilson
Introduction to Candlestick Patterns
ThinkForex
News & Other Websites
Best tool for up to the minute insights from leaders in the crypto space. More definitive list of who to follow below.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/
While the majority of the substantive content has migrated to Twitter, Reddit still produces gems if you are willing to sift through the weeds. Otherwise, its always a good test to receive general market sentiment and for a few chuckles courtesy of trolls. Also see ETH, LTC, and other alt-coin specific channels.
Bitcoin.org
The original bitcoin website. CAUTION: Not to be confused with Bitcoin.com which is owned and operated by the founder of BCash, Roger Ver. Bitcoin.com lacks integrity, intentionally subjects readers to much market confusion and inherent bias, and therefore should not be trusted.
Bitcoin Magazine
Good long-form content on critical developments in space and more technical deep dives.
CoinDesk
One of the first news site specializing in bitcoin and digital currencies and still often the most up to date for everything happening in crypto 24/7.
Brave New Coin
Excellent resources from APIs to custom Bitcoin Liquid Index. I come here for news and price analysis as well. Keep an eye out for regular price analysis from Josh Olszewicz’s who is a long-time and well respected crypto analyst.
Cointelegraph
Perhaps not as strong as other news sites but has good events and ICO calendar.
EthNews
Provider of news for Ethereum and the greater blockchain ecosystem.
Token Data
A leading news and data analytics provider for all things tokens. Provides, Status, USD Raised, Month, Token Sale Price, Current Token Price, Token Return, and Whitepapers.
CoinList
Platform built by AngelList which allows for accredited investors to invest in ICOs utilizing SAFTs.
Data, Charts, & Analysis
OnChainFX
Go-to for cryptoasset market cap rankings & metrics. Unlike Coin market cap it shows implied value based on future token distributions.
Blockchain.info
Detailed market statistics on bitcoin price, block details, mining information, network activity, and wallet activity. Downloadable csv files.
Bitinfo Charts
This site is a treasure trove of data despite its dated interface.
Block Explorer
Bitcoin Block Explorer is an open source web tool that allows you to view information about blocks, addresses, and transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Woobull Charts
Charts on Bitcoin Volatility, NVT Ratio and Velocity created by leading crypto analyst Willy Woo.
Etherscan
Ethereum BlockChain Explorer, API and Analytics Platform. Downloadable csv files of Ethereum network statistics and additional details of ERC20 tokens operating on top of Ethereum.
CryptoCompare
https://www.cryptocompare.com/
Free and downloadable trading data, social media stats, developer activity and more across a wide variety of coins.
Blockfolio
Go-to mobile app with easy to use tools to keep track of all your cryptocurrency investments. Plus allows you to set price alerts
TradingView
A web service and social network for traders, with a platform for technical analysis
Cryptowatch
Market portal providing price charts and market data for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more.
Token Daily
Reddit meets product hunt for crypto. Collection of token news, product launches/updates, and deep dive Q&A’s with experts
Books
Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond,
by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar
The Internet of Money,
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology,
by William Mougayar
Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Paperback
by Henning Diedrich
Podcasts & Videos
Episode 244 of the Tim Ferriss Show: The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency
with Tim Ferriss, Nick Szabo and Naval Ravikant
Hash Power – A Documentary on Blockchains & Cryptocurrencies
with Naval Ravikant, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Fred Ehrsam, Ari Paul, Juan Benet, Muneeb Ali, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Jeremiah Lowin, Jameson Lopp, Jordan Cooper, Josh Seims, & Charlie Noyes
Off the Chain
Anthony Pompliano
https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/offthechain
Interviews intelligent investors from the new and old financial system to gather thier thinking about digital assets
What Grinds My Gears
Meltem Demirors & Jill Carlson
Bizarre and buzzworthy happenings in the world of cryptocurrency
What Bitcoin Did
Peter McCormack
Peter McCormack interviews leaders from across the crypto economy
Unchained and Unconfirmed
Laura Shin
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1123922160?ct=podlink&mt=2
Laura Shin talks with industry pioneers across tech, financial services, health care, government and other sectors about blockchain technologies.
Epicenter
Excellent podcasts about Bitcoin, blockchains, cryptocurrencies and other distributed systems. Rountinely gathers the who’s who in the space to talk about crypto.
Tales from The Crypt
Marty Bent
Podcast hosted by marty Bent about Bitcoin
a16z Podcast: Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
with Vitalik Buterin, Fred Ehrsam, and Chris Dixon
a16z Podcast: Why Tokens Matter
with Chris Dixon and Fred Ehrsam
https://soundcloud.com/a16z/cryptocurrencies-networks-tokens
Base Layer
David Nage
Provides insights from founders and investors in the base layer of cryptoassets
Blogs & Medium Channels
Hackernoon
Quality writing from some of the leading hackers and technical writers in the space.
Token Economy
High value content on new developments in cryptocurrencies, blockchains, ICOs, dapps & the growing token economy.
The CoinFund Blog
Blockchain technology investments, research, and commentary by CoinFund and contributors
Multicoin Capital Blog
Kyle Samani, Tushar Jain, and the Multicoin Capital team’s musings on all things crypto
Tony Sheng’s Blog
Long-form analyses on the most pressing topics in crypto delivered weekly by Tony Sheng
OTHER
Future Outlook: What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years?
Daniel Jeffries
https://hackernoon.com/what-will-bitcoin-look-like-in-twenty-years-7e75481a798c
What is the Lightning Network and how can it help bitcoin scale?
by Elizabeth Stark
” I wrote a book that answers the question ‘What is Bitcoin?’ It’s 300 pages long, was obsolete the moment it was printed and has to be corrected and updated every three months just to keep up with changes.”
– Andreas Antonopoulos