Mirrored from lopp.net, which is updated more frequently than this page.
Getting Started:
- Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five
- The Bitcoin Whitepaper written by Satoshi Nakamoto
- The Value of Blockchains
- How Bitcoin Works in 5 Minutes (5 min video)
- How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood (22 min video)
- Bitcoin 101 (Balaji Srinivasan)
- Bitcoin for Beginners (Andreas Antonopoulos)
- Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin by CoinDesk
- Bitcoin is Like…
Deep Dive Technical Resources:
- Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Technologies (Princeton’s 300 page textbook)
- Bitcoin Developer Guide
- Bitcoin Ninja
- Bitcoin Protocol Reference
- Bitcoin Stack Exchange (Technical Q & A)
- The Bitcoin Wiki
- Comprehensive Academic Bitcoin Research Archive
- How the Bitcoin Protocol Actually Works
- Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line
- Mastering Bitcoin
- Grokking Bitcoin
- Epic List of Bitcoin Books
- Epic List of Many Blockchain Books
- Programming the Blockchain in C#
- Using the Raw Bitcoin Protocol
- A Peek Under Bitcoin’s Hood
- How to Parse the Bitcoin Blockchain
- Bitcoin’s Balance of Power
The History of Bitcoin:
- The Rise of the Cypherpunks
- Cypherpunk Research Archive
- Complete Writings of Satoshi Nakamoto
- The Book of Satoshi
- Original Announcement Email Thread
- Historical Literature – work that preceded Bitcoin
- Digital Gold
- The Bitcoin Standard
- The Age of Cryptocurrency
- History Timeline
- Brian Bishop’s Bitcoin Event Transcripts
- Premature Obituaries
- Bitcoin’s Family Tree
News Sites:
Podcasts:
- Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast
- Epicenter
- Let’s Talk Bitcoin (podcast)
- World Crypto Network
- Epic List of YouTube Channels
Discussion Forums:
- Bitcoin Subreddit
- Bitcoin Beginners Subreddit
- Bitcoin IRC Channel
- Bitcoin Core Slack
- Bitcoin Core Telegram
- Bitcoin Talk Forum
- Bitcoin Development Mailing List
Miscellaneous Statistics:
- Blockchain Charts
- Bitcoin Charts
- Bitcoin Nodes by Country
- Non-Listening Node Software Estimates
- Bitcoin Pulse – Tracking Bitcoin Adoption
- Bitcoin Core Repository Stats
- Bitcoin demographics & misc stats
- Bitcoin Richlist – see the distribution of wealth
- Bitcoinity – Exchange & Blockchain stats
- BitInfoCharts (Comparison of misc cryptocurrencies)
- Joehoe’s Mempool Size Stats
- OP_RETURN Stats
- OXT – blockchain explorer + privacy analysis
- P2SH.info – historical block & transaction stats
- Transaction Fee Estimates (many sources)
- Statoshi.info – realtime Bitcoin node stats
- TradeBlock – realtime block & mempool stats
Realtime Visualizations:
- Bitcoin City
- Blocks & Transactions by Geography
- Bitcoin Globe Transactions
- BitBonkers Blocks & Transactions
- Chainflyer Blocks & Transactions
- Live Node Geographic Map
- Live Node Network ASN Map
- Bitforce5 Transaction Relationships
- Daily Blockchain Transactions Relationships
- BitListen – Transactions by Value
- Bitcoin Monitor – Transactions by Value
- Federal Bitcoin – Transactions by Value
- Interaqt – Transactions by Value
- Value Visualizer – Transactions by Value
- Fiat Leak – Realtime Exchange Flows
Mining:
- The History of Bitcoin Mining
- How Bitcoin Mining Works (in layman’s terms)
- Getting Started Guide
- Bitcoin Mining Profitability Calculator
- Realtime Mining Statistics
- Cryptocoin mining relative profitability
- Mining pool hashrate distribution
- Organ of Corti (mining / network analysis blog)
Security:
- Bitcoin’s Security Model: A Deep Dive
- Bitcoin Security & Storage 101 (Pamela Morgan)
- Coindesk’s Bitcoin Storage Guide
- Cryptocurrency Security Standard (for enterprises)
- Glacier: A protocol for high security Bitcoin storage
- Intro to Paper Wallets & Cold Storage (James D’Angelo)
- Jolly Roger’s Security Guide for Beginners (online OPSEC)
- Paper Wallet Cold Storage Guide
- Securing Your Wallet
- Thoughts on Secure Storage of Crypto Assets
Setting up a Wallet:
Choose your wallet here
You’ll note that there are a variety of options.
My wallet recommendations:
- Hardware wallet (best security): Trezor or Ledger Nano S
- Desktop wallet: Electrum
- Android wallet: Samourai Wallet
- iPhone wallet: breadwallet
- Web wallet: BitGo
Running a Node:
Online Courses:
- In-depth Udemy Course (over 8 hours of video tutorials)
- Coursera Cryptocurrency Course (61 videos in 11 sections)
- Khan Academy Bitcoin Course (9 ~10 minute videos)
- Bitcoin 101 Blackboard Series (7+ hours of tutorials)
- Introduction to Bitcoin (create a free trial)
- Introduction to Digital Currency – MOOC offered by University of Nicosia
Documentaries:
- Banking on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Films
- Bitcoin in Uganda
- Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It
- Hash Power
- Inside Man (Morgan Spurlock)
- Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine
- The Bitcoin Doco
- The Bitcoin Gospel
- The Bitcoin Phenomenon
- The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
- Ulterior States
Video Presentations:
- BitcoinExplainers.com Epic List of Videos
- Another Epic List of YouTube Talks
- Bitcoin Africa Conference
- Bitcoin Investor Conference
- Bitcoin London 2012
- Breaking Bitcoin
- Construct
- Cryptolina
- Dubai Bitcoin Conference 2015
- Dutch Blockchain Conference
- European Bitcoin Conference 2011
- North American Bitcoin Conference 2017
- On-Chain Scaling Conference
- San Jose Bitcoin Conference 2013
- Scaling Bitcoin Workshop
- Texas Bitcoin Conference
- The Bitcoin Conference 2016
- The Future of Bitcoin
- World’s First Bitcoin Conference (2011)
High Quality Blogs:
- People to follow on Twitter
- Bitcoin Tech Talk (Various)
- Bitslog (Sergio Demian Lerner)
- Chris Burniske
- The Control (Nick Tomaino)
- Eric Lombrozo
- Financial Cryptography (Ian Grigg)
- Fred Wilson
- Freedom to Tinker
- Gavin Andresen
- Hacking, Distributed (Emin Gün Sirer)
- Jimmy Song
- JP Koning
- Matt Corallo
- The Memory Pool (Satoshi Nakamoto Institute)
- Money and State (Erik Voorhees)
- Nicolas Dorier
- nopara73
- Oleg Andreev
- Peter Todd
- Richard Gendal Brown
- Tim Swanson
- Truthcoin (Paul Sztorc)
- Tuur Demeester
- Unenumerated (Nick Szabo)
- Vinny Lingham
- Willy Woo
- Wladimir van der Laan
Buying Bitcoins:
- How to buy bitcoins
- Reviews of Popular Exchanges
- Bitcoin ATM Map
- Local Bitcoins
- Changelly
- Shapeshift
- Realtime Exchange Price Comparison
Vendors Accepting Bitcoin:
- Airbitz Merchant Directory
- Map of physical stores accepting Bitcoin
- UseBitcoins.info
- Bitcoin Debit Card Comparison
Advanced Trading:
- The Bitcoin Pub’s video training series
- Intro to Crypto Trading
- An Overview of Cryptocurrencies for the Savvy Investor
- Comparisons of coins, exchanges, wallets
- CoinGecko coin statistics
- BitInfoCharts coin statistics
- BitcoinMarkets Reddit community
- BitcoinMarkets flair stats
- Podcast: Magic Internet Money
- Podcast: BTCVIX
- Sifr Data – Financial Analytics
- Twitter Mention Stats
- Realtime Twitter Sentiment
- TradingView
- Volatility Index
- Whale Calls – large market movements
- WhalePool trading community
- Whaleclub Telegram community
- Woobull Charts
Realtime Exchange Data:
- All Market Tickers in One Chart
- All Crypto Market Caps
- Crypto Market Cap Visualization
- Bitcoinity
- Bitcoin Average
- Bitcoin Market Metrics
- Bitcoin Wisdom
- Blockchain.info
- CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index
- Cryptowatch
- Winklevoss Price Index
Privacy:
- Open Bitcoin Privacy Project’s Wallet Reviews
- Anonymous Bitcoin Book – how to maintain your privacy
- Bitcoin.org’s Privacy Guide
- How TumbleBit Works
- How to Run Bitcoin as a Tor Hidden Service on Ubuntu
- ZeroLink: The Bitcoin Fungibility Framework
The Lightning Network:
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