
learning CENTER
Our Key Learning Methodologies:
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Flipped Classroom
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Advisory Board Learning®
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Blended Learning
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Project-based Assignments (Individual & Group)
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REQUIRED READING:
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L1-L3 course content:
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Banking on Bitcoin - documentary available on Netflix & Amazon
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Satoshi Nakamoto - Bitcoin White Paper
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Bitcoin: The New Gold Standard
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Bitcoin Wiki
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Nick Szabo on Blockchains and Smart Contracts
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Introduction to Cryptoeconomics - Vitalik Buterin
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Evolution of Bitcoin - Full Documentary (including David Chaum 'Godfather of anonymous communication')
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The Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Explained
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Blockchain Technology Explained (2 Hour Course)
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How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood
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Blockchain 101 - A Visual Demo
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Blockchain 101 - Part 2 - Public / Private Keys and Signing
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Consensus Algorithms, Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin UCL - by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Blockchain Tutorial | Blockchain Technology
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Asymmetric encryption - Simply explained
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How Does Blockchain Work? With Karim R. Lakhani, a professor at Harvard Business School
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Nick Szabo: On Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
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How To Launch Your Own Production-Ready Cryptocurrency
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History of the Internet - Inside the Internet (BBC) broadcast 17/5/1997 (41:42 - 45:09),
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Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History Of The Internet Documentary Pack (1998) (PBS)
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Paypal CEO Interviews Paypal Board Member / CEO of Xapo-Blockchain
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Cryptocurrencies: Irrational Exuberance or Brave New World?
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Blockchain at IBM Research
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Blockchain explained: Top blockchain development questions answered (IBM)
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Genius of Things: Blockchain and Food Safety with IBM and Walmart
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Basics of Bitcoin
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Book - Digital Gold
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JAMES LOPP - BITCOIN RESOURCES
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How the Bitcoin Protocol Actually Works • Jan Møller
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The Trust Machine: The Story of Bitcoin
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Princeton University: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Course
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Princeton Faculty: DOWNLOAD BOOK - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
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Kevin Kelly: How Technology Evolves, "What Does Technology Want?"TedTalk
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Kevin Kelly: Kevin Kelly - Technology and our future
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Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains Senate Banking Panel Hearing, Oct 11 2018
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L3 - LAUNCH TOKEN, SMART CONTRACT and WALLET in TEST NET environment
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Create your smart contract without coding
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Coinlaunch
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Coincreator Tutorial
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A Deeper Look at Different Smart Contract Platforms
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How To Learn Solidity: The Ultimate Ethereum Coding Guide
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3000 ICO's with Ratings
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10 Best Blockchain Training Courses, Training And Certifications [2018]
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L4 CONSULTANT - ADVANCED TOPICS
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The Cryptography Behind Bitcoin
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography & Diffie-Hellman
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Cryptography: Public Key Encryption (RSA, Elliptic Curve and ElGamal)
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Andreas Antonopoulos on Bitcoin Wallet Encryption
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The Complete Satoshi
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Create and deploy your first private blockchain in minutes
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L4 TECHNICAL - LEARN TO CODE: JAVASCRIPT, PYTHON and SOLIDITY
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Blockgeeks (highly recommended courses and team!)
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The Top-10 Courses for Blockchain Developers Recommended by Experts
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Code Academy: Python course
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Coursera: Learn How to Program
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Python for Everybody (PY4E)
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Harvard CS50 course of EdX
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My Story of Being a Self Taught Programmer (Plus Tips and Advice!)
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WHAT CAN I DO WITH THE CERTIFICATION?
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Our program aims at getting our trained consultants working either as independent business consultants, or for companies and startups looking for well-trained blockchain team members. The range of roles companies are looking for include:
1) blockchain consultants for smart contract development & training in organizations
2) community development managers (for start-ups, ICO's, or international crypto companies, etc.)
3) project managers (managing blockchain projects and teams toward meeting project deadlines for smart contract or ICO launches, etc.)
4) recruiters (managing blockchain-talent recruiting and skills evaluation processes, etc.)
social media representatives, writers, spokespersons, etc. (to write press releases, stories, articles, etc.)
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TOP 8 MUST READ BOOKS for BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTO:
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1. The Internet of Money - Andreas Antonopoulos
2. The Age of Cryptography - Casey & Vigna
3. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
4. Cryptoassets - Burniske & Tatar
5. Mastering Bitcoin - Andreas Antonopoulos
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6. The Truth Machine - Casey & Vigna
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7. The Inevitable - Kevin Kelly
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8. Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber
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WANT TO BE A BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPER? - HOW TO START LEARNING TO CODE:
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BEST IN FREE BLOCKCHAIN COURSES - click here
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If no coding experience:
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Learn Javascript and Python (Codeademy / Coursera / Udemy - see links above)
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Become involved in community
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Typically between 6 - 12 months of learning (at least 4 hours/week)
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CAREERS in BLOCKCHAIN:
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Examples of Job Listings, see:
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CIRCLE Job Listings
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GARTNER - MARKET GUIDE FOR BLOCKCHAIN CONSULTING
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TALKS / SPEAKING EVENTS:
"OVERCOMING BLOCKCHAIN STAFFING CRISIS" (some key links):
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8 Best Blockchain Courses
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Mobile Fish
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Coursera
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Udemy
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Blockgeeks
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Bitcoin & Blockchain Meetups ​
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Blockchain jobs and salaries — 2018 report
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https://www.switchup.org/
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https://www.fullstackacademy.com/
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Can you hack it? 12 NYC coding bootcamps & schools
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Understanding Blockchains by Coding One in R
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Ivan on Tech
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MEDIA
Magazines and Blogs
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CryptoHackers — Cryptoworld superheroes interviews. Fascinating facts, teams insides and success stories.
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CoinTelegraph — The leading publication offering latest news, analysis, expert opinions, community commentaries. Founded in 2013.
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CoinDesk — CoinDesk is the world leader in news and information on digital currencies. 17M mothly users.
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CryptoCoins News — Fresh news and analysis. This huge blog posts very frequently. Approx. 7M readers monthly.
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Bitcoin Magazine — Bitcoin Magazine is the oldest and most established source of news, information and expert commentaries. Sometimes posts deep and very interesting articles.
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99 Bitcoins — 99 Bitcoins is the largest information source for non technical newbies.
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Coin Speaker — Founded in 2014, CoinSpeaker is one of the most influentional news source.
Medium
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Vitalik Buterin — Vitalik Buterin is Ethereum creator, cryptocurrency evangelist.
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Bitcoin Tech Talk — All About Bitcoin Development.
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Tuur Demeester — Economist & investor, editor in chief at Adamant Research.
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Vinny Lingham — CEO of Civic.com.
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Nicolas Dorier — Main developer of NBitcoin. CTO at Metaco SA.
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Nick Tomaino — Tech investor Runa Capital
Telegram Channels
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Crypto Memes — Cryptoworld funny pictures.
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Crypto — The god of all crypto channels.
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UpcomingICOs — This channel is dedicated to informing people of up and coming ICO’s.
News Aggregators
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CoinBuzz — CoinBuzz aggregates news from many sources (Twitter, Reddit, Google Trends etc) and displays it in the Trello style.
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CryptoPanic — CryptoPanic is news aggregator platform indicating impact on price and market for traders and cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
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ETHNews — ETHNews is emerging provider of Ethereum and Blockchain ecosystem news.
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CoinsCalendar — CoinsCalendar displays all upcoming coins events and updates.
Price Trackers
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Altcoins Racing — Altcoins Racing shows the price change winners and losers.
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CoinMarketcap — Old and cool. All coins prices, graphs, market caps. API, widgets, tools. Used by 90M monthly users.
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Coincap — CoinCap tracks market data for hundreds of cryptocurrencies in real-time. They also have very useful mobile app.
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Cryptowatch — Live price charts and market data for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more. Many exchanges, flexible settings and cool API.
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Bfxdata — Charts and Stats for Bitfinex market data and margin funding.
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Bitcoinwisdom — Live Bitcoin/Litecoin charts with EMA, MACD and other indicators. Support many exchanges (Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Coinbase, Bittrex, Poloniex etc).
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Flippening Watch — When will Ethereum overtake Bitcoin and become the most important cryptocurrency?
ICO Trackers
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ICOtracker — Very informative and trusted tracker.
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The ICO digest — Weekly ICO digest.
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TokenData — See ICO stats: ROI, total investments, status and other information.
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CoinSchedule — Live Token Sales & ICOs.
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ICO Bazaar — Informative website + ICOs alerts.
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Picoloresearch — Independent research on blockchain startups and ICOs.
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Smith + Crown ICO list — Curated list of ongoing and upcoming token sales. Have some research tiers.
Exchanges
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Local Bitcoins — Buy and sell bitcoins near you. Trusted by 10M monthly users.
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Poloniex — USA. Trust: 3.5/5. Tons of altcoins. Poor support.
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CoinBase — USA. Trust: 5/5. Pay with fiat.
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Bittrex — USA. Trust: 4/5. Many altcoins. Responsible founders.
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CEX.IO — UK. Trust: 5/5. Fiat. Newbie friendly.
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BestBitcoinExchange — Curated list of 35 popular exchanges. Looks SEOish but does the job well.
Communities
Chats
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The CHT Community — Official CryptoHackers Telegram chat. The place to talk to founders of your favourite crypto startups & apps.
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Crypto Aquarium — Great community (Telegram, Slack). Curated by Joshua Petty, the Coindex creator. 800+ members.
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Bitpam — Friendly Discord community. 300+ members.
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Bitcoin Core Community — Telegram discussion about Bitcoin and Bitcoin Core. 2000+ members.
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BitcoinMarkets — Bitcoin and cryptocurrency price discussion. The official Slack of /r/bitcoinmarkets. 4000+ members.
Forums
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CryptoChan — The only crypto-related anonymous imageboard in the world.
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Bitcoin Talk — The homepage for the Bitcoin community from the start. Made by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.
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Bitcoin.com Forum — Strong community of 30,000+ users.
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BitcoinGarden — This young forum has appeared in Jan 2017.
Other
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Cryptocompare — CryptoCompare is interactive platform where you can discuss the latest crypto trends and monitor all markets streaming in real time. Also includes perfect altfoilio app.
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Trading View — Follow pro traders and learn from their analyzes. (Mr. Lavrov is great specialist).
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Bitcoin on StackExchange — Question and answer site for Bitcoin crypto-currency enthusiasts.
Jobs
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Coinality — Coinality is free service connecting crypto employers and job seekers.
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Cryptogrind — Bitcoin freelance platform.
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Blockchain Dev Jobs — Curated list of jobs from around the web for blockchain engineers.
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Ethlance — Hire or work for ETH.
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/r/Jobs4Bitcoins/ — Place on Reddit to offer your talents and skills in exchange for the fastest growing currency in the world.
Wallets
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Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin Core is MIT licensed open source Bitcoin wallet. It runs own full node so 145GG of free disk space is required. OSX/Linux/Windows/Ubuntu.
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Electrum — Thin Bitcoin client. Opensource, MIT, has 100+ contributors.
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Exodus — Exodus is the first desktop multi-asset wallet with ShapeShift built in.
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MyEtherWallet — Opensource webapp to access Ethereum. Old and reliable. ERC20 support. Loved by phishers!
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Coinomi — Opensource, supports many altcoins, fast and has perfect UI.
Altfolio
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Blockfolio — Cryptocurrency management, with easy to use tools to keep track of all your cryptocurrency investments. Nice widgets. Simple. Android/iOS.
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ACrypto — Track bitcoin and altcoins prices, custom alarms, detailed charts. Flexible, many settings, informative. Android only.
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Altpocket — The only tool you need for showcasing, tracking and sharing your cryptocurrency investments.
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Coinfyi — Track your performance, news & market signals related to your cryptocurrency investments. Anonymous. Simple. Free.
Useful Tools
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QR Code Generator — With this free tool you can instantly generate QR code for your Bitcoin/Litecoin/Ethereum/Dogecoin address.
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Block Explorer — Discover the Bitcoin blockchain blocks online. Includes fees and miners information.
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EtherScan — Block Explorer and Analytics Platform for Ethereum.
Video
YouTube Channels
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The Cryptoverse — Your cryptocurrency news dose.
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World Crypto Network — Informative news digests.
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Crypt0 — Omar is one of the most popular crypto bloggers. He creates fascinating interviews.
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Ameer Rosic — News, interviews, podcasts and reviews.
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aantonop — Presentations, discussions, QA by Andreas, the author of “Mastering Bitcoin”.
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CoinSummit — CoinSummit records: startups showcases, discussions and presentations.
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BitcoinFilm — Short films about people using Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Course — Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies course. 12 videos, each 45–90 mins.
Movies
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Ulterior States — Real-life conversations with some thought leaders within the Bitcoin ecosystem. The film took 3 years to complete.
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The Bitcoin Doco — Fascinating story focusing on the emergence of new world wide currency.
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Life Inside Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine — Interesting story about the miners of the new millenium.
Learning
Books
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Mastering Bitcoin — Mostly for developers. The second edition was published in June 2017.
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The Internet of Money — Significance of bitcoin through series of essays spanning the exhilarating maturation of this technology.
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Ethereum — Non-technical guide to understand blockchains. Mostly focused on Ethereum.
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The Age of Cryptocurrency — Insight into the modern financial system and the Bitcoin industry.
Courses
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Coursera Course — Telling what is special about Bitcoin and how it works at technical level. Created by Princeton University.
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Udemy Course — The definitive guide to understand what the bitcoin is and why we should care about them.
Other
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CoinPride Newsletter — The most important crypto news and events. One handcrafted email per week.
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Bitcoin Wiki — Technical specifications of the protocol as well as more basic information about how to buy, sell or use bitcoins.
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Blockchain Demo — This interactive demo will guide you through each component of blockchain step-by-step.
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MyCryptoGuide — The guide is meant to serve as both easy-to-understand introduction to the world of cryptocurrencies.
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Bad Bitcoin — List of known scams, HYIPs and Ponzi schemes.
For Developers
API
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Stripe Bitcoin — Accepting Bitcoin payments made easy. Great integration from Stripe.
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Shapeshift — Embed exchange in your app. Trusted by hundreds of apps.
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Microsoft BaaS — Blockchain as Service (BaaS) from Microsoft Azure.
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CoinMarketCap — Powerful JSON API covering 1000+ coins. Limit: 1 request per 6 sec.
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CoinCap — Simple and informative. Lots of altcoins. History data. No limits.
Other
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Bitpay — Use BitPay’s retail, ecommerce, billing, and donation tools to accept payments.
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Gekko — Free and open source trading bot. GUI, CLI, NodeJS, nice docs. 18 exchanges (including Bitfinex, Bitstamp and Poloniex).
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Zenbot — Free and open source trading bot. CLI, NodeJS. GDAX, Poloniex, Kraken, Bittrex, Quadriga and Gemini.
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Web3.js — Ethereum JS API. Requires nodejs, nmp and being node.
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OpenZeppelin — OpenZeppelin is open framework of reusable and secure smart contracts in the Solidity language. 1500+ Slack community members.
Podcasts
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Epicenter — The Podcast at the Forefront of the Decentralized Technology Revolution.
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Bitcoin Knowledge — Learn about blockchain and fintech.
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BlockChannel — Dedicated to educating the world on the power of blockchain based technologies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and ZCash.
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Ether Review — Exploring the verifiable computing space through the lens of Ethereum.
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Bitcoin Uncensored — Exploring the verifiable computing space through the lens of Ethereum.
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ICO Alert Podcast — Podcast from the popular ICO tracking platform.
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Unchained - In this podcast, host Laura Shin talks with industry pioneers across tech
Mining
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CoinWarz — Mining profitability calculators. Help choosing perfect coin to mine.
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WhatToMine? — Find the most profitable cryptocurrencies to mine.
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more RESOURCES
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Curated list of blockchain and general cryptocurrency resources
Blockchain Books
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Blockchain Explained: A Technology Guide to the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Fintech Revolution - R.J Simmons
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Blockchain Fast and Simple - What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters: Understand the basics, join the revolution- Pierro Martini
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Cryptocurrency Investment: How to Invest in Cryptocurrencies and Make Money in the Long-term - Tamas Torok
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Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World - Don and AlexTapscott
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Blockchain Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Bitcoin and How to Use Blockchain for Your Benefit - Phil Stein
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Blockchain The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Hidden Economy -s Oscar Flynt
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Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy - Melanie Swan
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Blockchain: Easiest Ultimate Guide To Understand Blockchain - Jared Norton
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Blockchain: The Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Hidden Economy - Timothy Short
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Blockchain: The Essential Guide to Understanding the Blockchain Revolution - Jeff Reed
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Blockchain: The Future of Internet Innovation - Ideas, Applications and Uses for Blockchain Technology - Jerry Kershen
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Blockchain: The Simple Guide To Everything You Need To Know - Jacob William
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Bye Bye Banks?: How Retail Banks are Being Displaced, Diminished and Disintermediated by Tech Startups and What They Can Do to Survive - James Haycock
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Decentralized Applications: Harnessing Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology - Siraj Raval
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Financial Technology: This Book Bundle Includes FinTech and Blockchain - Jacob William
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How to Program a Block Chain Explorer with Python and Bitcoin - Alex Gorale
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The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology - William Mougayar
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The FinTech Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries - Susanne Chishti and Janos Barberis
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Prof Klaus Schwab
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The Science of the Blockchain - Roger Wattenhofer
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ValueWeb: How FinTech firms are using mobile and blockchain technologies to create the Internet of Value -Chris Skinner
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Blockchain for Dummies - Tiana Laurence
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Mastering Bitcoin Programming - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
White papers
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A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names - University of San Diego California
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A brave new world? What impact will distributed ledger technology have on the financial industry? - The European Central Bank
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An Architecture for the Internet of Money - Meher Roy
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Banking in a world of programmable assets - Accenture
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Bitcoin Primer - Macro Risk Advisors
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Bitcoin as Money? - Stephanie Lo and J. Christina Wang
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Bitcoin - Microsoft Research
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BlockChain Technology Beyond Bitcoin - University of California,Berkeley
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Blockchain: practical implications of a revolutionary technology for financial markets and beyond - DLA Piper
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Blockchain: the solution for transparency in product supply chains - Project Provenance Ltd
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Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains - Muneeb Ali, Jude Nelson, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman
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Bootstrapping Trust in Distributed Systems with Blockchains - Muneeb Ali, Jude Nelson, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman
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Consensus – Immutable agreement for the internet of value - KPMG
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Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain - UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
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Economics of Bitcoin - Peter Surda
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Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains - Adam Back, Matt Corallo, Luke Dashjr, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Andrew Miller, Andrew Poelstra, Jorge Timón, and Pieter Wuille
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Extending Existing Blockchains with Virtualchain - Jude Nelson, Muneeb Ali, Ryan Shea and Michael J. Freedman
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The Impact and Potential of Blockchain on the Securities Transaction Lifecycle - The Swift Institute
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World Citizenship by Creating Affordable Private Passport Service - Chris Ellis
Bitcoin
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Anonymous Cryptocurrencies: The rise of bitcoin alternatives that offer true anonymity - Will Martin
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Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World - Jeffery Tucker
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Bitcoin : A Complete Beginner's Guide - Master The Game - Luke Sutton
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Bitcoin Basics - Benjamin Tideas
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Bitcoin Decoded: Bitcoin Beginner's Guide to Mining and the Strategies to Make Money with Cryptocurrencies - Brett Combs,Tom Mitsoff
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Bitcoin For Dummies - Prypto
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Bitcoin Internals: A Technical Guide to Bitcoin - Chris Clark
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Bitcoin Step by Step for Beginners: How to Invest and Profit from Bitcoin Today! - Leo Kallstrom
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Bitcoin The Future of Money - Dominic Frisby
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction - Arvind Narayanan,Joseph Bonneau,Edward Felten, Andrew Miller,Steven Goldfeder (free version of first draft)
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Bitcoin and The Future of Money - Jose Pagliery
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Bitcoin for the Befuddled - Conrad Barski and Chris Wilmer
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Bitcoin in English - Peter H Le
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Bitcoin: Mastering Bitcoin & Cyptocurrency for Beginners - Tim Harris
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Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin - Nathaniel Popper
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Everything you need to know about buying, selling and investing in Bitcoin - A. H Smithers
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Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are challenging the Global Economic Order - Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
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The Anatomy of a Money-Like Informational Commodity: A study of Bitcoin - Tim Swanson
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The Bitcoin Bible - Benjamin Guttmann
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The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About to Change the World - Brian Kelly
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The Bitcoin Tutor: Unlocking the Secrets of Bitcoin - Marc A. Carignan
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The Bitcoin Tutorial: Develop an intuitive understanding of the currency and blockchain technology - Bruce Kleinman
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The Black Book of Bitcoin: A Step-by-Step Bitcoin Guide on Everything You Need to Know About this New Currency - Mark Janniro
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The Book of Satoshi - Paul Champagne
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The Digital Money Game: Competing in the multi-trillion dollar payments industry - Charmaine Oak
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Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, Engineering and Economics - Pedro Franco
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Virtual Billions: The Genius, the Drug Lord, and the Ivy League Twins behind the Rise of Bitcoin - Eric Geissinger
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Wildcat Currency - Edward Castronova
Ethereum and Smart Contracts
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A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy - Vitalik Buterin
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Blockchain contracts and CyberLaw - Pavan Duggal
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Ethereum Builder's Guide - Ethereum
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Ethereum Frontier Guide - Ethereum
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Ethereum: A look into the world of Ethereum and everything you need to know about it's trade and investment - Ben Abner
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Ethereum: The Complete Beginners Guide -Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Ethereum - Ray Hammond
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FinTech: Financial Technology and Modern Finance in the 21st Century - Jeff Reed
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Great Chain of Numbers: A Guide to Smart Contracts, Smart Property and Trustless Asset Management - Tim Swanson
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Investing In Ethereum: The Complete Guide To Smart Investing - Learn How To Easily Profit From Cryptocurrencies! - Thomas Sanders
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Investing in Ethereum: The Ultimate Guide to Learning and Profiting from--Cryptocurrencies - Oscar Flynt
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Investing in Ethereum: Understanding Cryptocurrencies for the Smart Investor - Michael K Nungesser
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Practical Guide to Smart Contracts - Smart Contract Japan
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Smart Contracts: How to Use Blockchain Smart Contracts for Cryptocurrency Exchange - Oscar Flynt
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Smart Contracts: The Essential Guide to Using Blockchain Smart Contracts for Cryptocurrency Exchange - Jeff Reed
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Smart Contracts: The Ultimate Guide To Blockchain Smart Contracts - Learn How To Use Smart Contracts For Cryptocurrency Exchange! - Terry Parker
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The Modern Ethereum - Ryan Venter
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TurboEthereum Guide - Gavin Wood
Infographics
Talks
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Balaji Srinivasan gives a quick talk at Goldman Sachs. (14 min)
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Balaji Srinivasan on Silicon Valley’s ultimate exit, the USA the Microsoft of nations (16 min)
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Beyond Bitcoin - Block Chains and the Future of Trustless Computing (27 min)
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Bitcoin Is Exciting Because It's Cheap - Bill Gates
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Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.(11min) - Paul Kemp-Robertson
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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin - Reihan Salams
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How Cryptocurrencies Can Succeed: the Stripe Perspective(20min) - Greg Brockman
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How the Blockchain is Changing Money and Business (19 min) - Don Tapscott
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TEDx, Crytpocurrencies like Bitcoin are coming, and it's a good thing (11min): - Juan Llanos
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TEDx, Distributing Power & Trust (18min) - Eric Spano
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Testimony for the Australian Senate Commitee on Economics References(36min)
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The Future of Bitcoin: New Applications and Rebuilding the banking system: (28min) - Mike Hearn
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The future will be decentralized (14mins) - Charles Hoskinson
Youtube Channels
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[Texas Bitcoin Conference](Industy Info, Technical)
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[World Crypto Network](Industry Info, Fun, Entertainment)
Courses
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies - Princeton University
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Bitcoin or How I learned to stop worrying and love Crypto - Udemy
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Bitcoin - Khan Academy Series
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Crypto Currencies, the Blockchain, and Smart Contracts - Standford
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Ethereum Developer: Build A Decentralised Blockchain App - Udemy
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Introduction to Bitcoin and Decentralized Technology By Scott Driscoll - Pluralsight
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The Basics of Blockchain: A Beginner's Guide to Blockchain - Udemy
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The Complete Ethereum Course - udemy
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​Explorers
Assets
Private Blockchain
Tutorials
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How Bitcoin Works in 5 Minutes (Technical) (5m:25s) by Curious Inventor
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How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood (22m:24s) by Curious Inventor
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Mechanics of Bitcoin (1h:19m:49s) by Princeton Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course
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Programming Bitcoin Youtube Channel by Murray
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Coding Multi-Signature Addresses by D'Angelo
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Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course (C4) by Aljosha Judmayer and Edgar Weipp
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The libbitcoin Tutorial by Taaki
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How to Parse the Bitcoin Blockchain by Ratcliff
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Signing Offline Transactions by Maxwell
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2 of 2 escrow example by Maxwell
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2 of 3 multisig example by Andresen
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How to decrypt messages in the blockchain from btcmsg by ripper234
Testnet Faucets
Blogs
Articles
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Bulletproofs - Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More
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MORE... BITCOIN/BLOCKCHAIN RESOURCES
Introductory Videos:
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(2 minute) This video: explaining the purpose of blockchain in 2 minutes, and the promise it makes.
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This 6-part series from Dash School is a great introductory series on what Blockchain is, how it is governed, and several fundamental concepts. Greg highly recommend the series.
MOOC
Blockchain is still a new development, so it's harder to find MOOC which can teach you the whole thing in entirety. We found there are couple of exceptions:
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Coursera's Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency from Princeton. (See my quick impression.)
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Stanford CS251's Bitcoin class. While this is not a MOOC, you can access all the notes and homework. They are high-quality.
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Coursera's Cryptography I and Cryptography II, which provides you great basics of Cryptography.
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IBM Blockchain Foundation For Developers - As short course, mostly a class on how to identify and convert a business network to a blockchain-based solution.
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University of Nicosia's has and Introductory MOOC on bitcoin., which requires registration. You can also check the their Youtube feed for their live discussion.
Books
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction by Arvind Narayanan and Princeton's authors.
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Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Technical Specifications:
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Closest for Bitcoin is the Developer Reference
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Also check out Berkeley's "Dive Deep into Ethereum"
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Visualizing Blockchain
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Sean Han's source code.
Forum:
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On cryptos, the best is perhaps bitcointalk.org . But also try out our Blockchain and Cryptos?
Different Cryptos: (under construction)
Learning blockchain these days usually means you know different the characteristics of different coins. Here are list of interesting ones.
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Bitcoin
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Litecoin
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Dogecoin
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Bytecoin
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Monero
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The Ethereum Family
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Ethereum
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Ethereum Classic
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Dash
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Ripple
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Zcash
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Stratis
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IOTA
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Monacoin
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Freicoin - Rather inactive as of 2017 Dec.....
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Zencash
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Zcoin
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Auroracoin
Bibliography:
To be reviewed:
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Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-what-is-it
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A list of very useful Bitcoin classes: https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=Bitcoin&p=1

Levels 3 & 4 questions are from the following books:
Other Decentralised Tech
Discussion Groups
Blockchain Art

Donate Bitcoin

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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and respected figures in bitcoin.
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Follow on Twitter: @aantonop https://twitter.com/aantonop
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Website: https://antonopoulos.com/
He is the author of two books: “Mastering Bitcoin,” published by O’Reilly Media and considered the best technical guide to bitcoin; “The Internet of Money,” a book about why bitcoin matters.
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Measuring Success: Price or Principle - https://youtu.be/mPMsbgWl9p4
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Bitcoin's Origins and the Genesis Blockade - https://youtu.be/cagoyF3WePo
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Why Open Blockchains Matter - https://youtu.be/uZPIz3ArQww
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Decentralised Globalisation - https://youtu.be/QoiR4aNbTOw
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Investing in Education instead of Speculation - https://youtu.be/6uXAbJQoZlE
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Beyond Price: Bitcoin's Impact on the Future - https://youtu.be/rvwVbRQ5Ysc
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Why I'm against ETFs - https://youtu.be/KSv0J4bfBCc
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Regulation and the bank boycott - https://youtu.be/8ypH69Cb1l0
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Wallet design and mass adoption - https://youtu.be/WbZX6BDZJHc
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Mass adoption and peer-to-peer commerce - https://youtu.be/n9qIAEFS-Qs
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Scaling strategies and adoption - https://youtu.be/dML1a_Ek9Kw
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Price volatility and store of value - https://youtu.be/wzzZT95ijTo
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Why I earn bitcoin instead of buying - https://youtu.be/Ci7TyD8jETY
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Job opportunities with cryptocurrencies - https://youtu.be/89_p4pDlQtI
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Inspiring cryptocurrency projects - https://youtu.be/WW8norCKUbE
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From barter to abstract money - https://youtu.be/KYsppZoHguQ
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Crossing the chasm of theoretical vs. real need - https://youtu.be/yIR0OBEAaUE
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Remittances and smuggling in Venezuela - https://youtu.be/RRXecXfWARw
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How long until mainstream adption? - https://youtu.be/y3cKBDBabtA
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What is the biggest adoption hurdle? - https://youtu.be/jHgyHF3F2TI
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Bitcoin as everyday currency - https://youtu.be/xYvvSV4mjH0
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How to avoid re-creating systems of control - https://youtu.be/EfoGnDoaBL8
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Hyperbitcoinization - https://youtu.be/AB5MU5fXKfo
Documentaries to Watch:
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Banking on Bitcoin - Amazon & Netflix
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The Creepy Line - Amazon Movies
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Do You Trust This Computer - Amazon Movies
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