Blockchain Resources – Thomas J. Ackermann

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10-Year Anniversary – The 2019 State of Debate in a Video Rap Battle

… for all the details, scroll down :)

Reading Material and Books

“Satoshi Nakamoto’s” (Wikipedia) Original Whitepaper
The PDF – various available translations – The Basics – Developer Documentation
High-level introduction to Blockchain:
Melanie Swan, Blockchain – Blueprint for a New Economy
ISBN-10: 1491920491 – ISBN-13: 978-1491920497 – Amazon US – Amazon DE
Techie-level introduction to Blockchain:
Andreas Antonopoulos: Mastering Bitcoin – Programing the Open Blockchain
Second Edition, Jul 2017
ISBN-10: 1491954388 – ISBN-13: 978-1491954386 – Amazon US – Amazon DE
A Comic-Like, simple explanation of Bitcoin and Blockchain (scroll down on the post)
“The Authoritative Guide To Blockchain Development”
Understand “Touring Complete“
The Blockchain Genesis Block
Lightning Network explained (more) – Bitcoin Microchannel Networks – Schnorr Signatures (more on Schnorr)
RSK/RIF: Smart Contracts in Bitcoin PoW
Difference between Sidechains and State Channels
Goldman Sachs explains Blockchain (fancy animation, step-by-step)
A simple, but very intuitive intro to Blockchain by Reuters
Proof-of-Stake Concepts: the Caspers vs Tendermint
Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Infocharts, Intros, News

Halving countdown and statistics
BitInfo – hashrate, values, etc
Blockchain.info – charts, starts, block queries
Real-Time Blockchain Bitcoin Transaction Watch – with recent (closed) blocks
Real-Time Blockchain Unconfirmed Transactions (mempool, in queue) and MemPool Statistics
Auto-Updating Bitcoin Price Tracker
News: Cointelegraph
News: CoinDesk

Videos

Initial Coin Offerings

“Cambrian Explosion” of disparate currencies
Most of these early blockchain innovators just took the original cryptocurrency’s source code, made their preferred changes, and launched their alternative versions as distinct cryptocurrencies; it was as if they’d modified the DNA of an existing species to create a new, reproductively isolated branch of the family tree.

ICO Tracker “TrackICO“
ICO Tracker “CoinSchedule“
99CryptoCoin – trading info on 1,300+ cryptocurrencies
5 Tips for New Bitcoin Investors
Coins, Tokens, and Altcoins: what is the difference?
Ethereum ERC-20 Tokens, Explained
Non-Fungible Tokens, Explained

Bitcoin Futures

Bitcoin Futures Explained

Wallets

Wallet Information & Background
Crypto Wallets explained (high-level introduction)
Some Wallet Examples
Six Tools used by hackers to steal crypto currencies and how to protect wallets
For kicks: the Top 10 Richest wallets
(note: anyone with half a brain will spread his / her wealth across many wallets)
The largest wallet is held by Satoshi Nakamoto with about 1 million BTC worth several billion US$
as of November 2017.