Blockchain Getting Started
Collection of useful resources and academic papers for getting started with blockchain technology. Sections are mostly sorted from the most basic to the most advanced.
Getting Started
How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood - 22 minutes (video)
Bitcoin White Paper - Satoshi Nakamoto
Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree - literaturve overview of Bitcoin's building blocks
Mastering Bitcoin - Andreas Antonopolus (digital book)
MIT cryptocurrencies course
Getting Started - Ethereum
How does Ethereum work anyway? (Blog post)
Build Your First Smart Contract With Solidity
Smart Contracts and Blockchain Security Course - University of Illinois
Mastering Ethereum - Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood (book)
Security
Mastering Bitcoin - Bitcoin Security
What is a Finney attack? (zero-confirmations double spend)
Bitcoin's Threat Model
Bitcoin's Security Model: A Deep Dive
A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues of Bitcoin
Security Bitcoin Communication Infrastructure - Aviv Zohar (video)
Majority is not Enough:
Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable - Selfish Mining (paper)
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network (paper)
Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies (paper)
Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks
on Ethereum’s Peer-to-Peer Network (paper)
Smart Contract Bugs and Pitffalls - Vitalik Buterin (video)
Smart contracts known attacks - Consensys Github
Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale
(paper)
Scalability
On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains
(A Position Paper)
Lightning Network
Lightning Network - easy explanation (video)
History of the Lightning Network - Christian Decker (video)
Lightning ≈ Bitcoin - Christian Decker (video)
Lightning Residency '18 NYC (videos & slides)
Mastering Bitcoin - Lightning Network
Understanding the Lightning Network - Bitcoin Magazine
Lightning Network (paper)
BlockDAG Protocols (from GHOST to PHANTOM)
Ghost Spectre - Aviv Zohar (video)
SPECTRE (paper)
PHANTOM (paper)
PHANTOM video, BPASE '18
Bitcoin-NG
Bitcoin-NG - Ittay Eyal (video)
Bitcoin-NG (paper)
Mimble Wimble
Mimble-Wimble and Scriptless Scripts - Andrew Poelstra (video)
Mimble-Wimble - Andrew Poelstra (paper)
Schnorr Signatures
Schnorr sigantures (blog post)
Simple Schnorr Multi-Signatures
with Applications to Bitcoin (paper)
Privacy
Cryptocurrency privacy: overview - BPASE '18 (video)
Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin
Transaction Graph - Dorit Ron, Adi Shmair (paper)
A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among
Men with No Names (paper)
Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network (paper)
Zerocash (paper)
Monero Research Lab (papers)
An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain (paper)
A Traceability Analysis of Monero’s Blockchain (paper)
On the linkability of Zcash transactions (paper)
An Empirical Analysis of Anonymity in Zcash (paper)