Bitcoin

Bitcoin#

Table of Contents#

Resources#

  • [ h ][ d ][ g ][ w ] Bitcoin

  • [ h ][ d ][ g ][ w ] Bitcoin Core

  • [ h ][ d ][ g ][ w ] Lightning Network

[ g ] Bitcoin Improvement Proposal

  • [ d ] BIP32

  • [ d ] BIP39

  • [ d ] BIP44

  • [ h ][ g ] BIP32 Deterministic Key Generator

  • [ h ][ g ] BIP39 Mnemonic Code Converter

[ g ] SatoshiLabs Improvement Proposal

  • [ g ] SLIP-0044: Registered coin types for BIP-0044

[ h ] Brownworth, Anders

  • [ h ][ g ] Blockchain Demo

Courses

  • [ h ] Boneh, Dan & Benedikt Bunz. (2020). CS251: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies. Stanford.

Texts#

  • [ g ] Antonopoulos, Andreas M. (2017). Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain. 2e. O’Reilly.

  • Antonopoulos, Andreas M., Olaoluwa Osuntokun, & René Pickhardt. (2021). Mastering the Lightning Network: A Second Layer Blockchain Protocol for Instant Bitcoin Payments. O’Reilly.

  • [ p ] Nakamoto, Satoshi. (2008). “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. Fermat’s Library.

  • [ h ] Narayanan, Arvind et al. (2016). Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction. Princeton University Press. Coursera.

  • [ p ] Sompolinsky, Yonatan & Aviv Zohar. (2013). “Secure High-Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin”.

  • [ g ] Song, Jimmy. (2019). Programming Bitcoin: Learn How to Program Bitcoin from Scratch. O’Reilly.

  • [ p ] Yang, Lei et al. (2020). “Prism: Scaling Bitcoin by 10,000x”.

Terms#

  • [ w ] Bitcoin

  • [ w ] Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)

  • [ w ] Bitcoin Network

  • [ w ] SatoshiLabs Improvement Proposal (SLIP)

Digital Electronic Payments#

DigiCash (1989-1998)#

DigiCash Home Investopedia Wiki
Ecash Wiki

Chaum, David. (1982). “Blind signatures for untraceable payments”.

founded 1989
bankruptcy 1998
acquired by InfoSpace 2002

Mondex (1993-2001)#

Mondex Wiki

development 1990
public 1993
acquired by MasterCard 2001

CyberCash (1994-2001)#

CyberCash Wiki

established 1994
public 1996
bankruptcy 2001
acquired by PayPal 2005

E-gold (1996-2009)#

E-gold Wiki

Hashcash (1997)#

Hashcash Home Wiki

Back, Adam. (2002). “Hashcash - Amortizable Publicly Auditable Cost-Functions”.
Back, Adam. (2002). “Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure”.
Dwork, Cynthia & Moni Naor. (1992). “Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail”.

B-Money (1998)#

B-Money Investopedia

Dai, Wei. (1998). “b-money, an anonymous, distributed electronic cash system”.

Bit Gold (1999)#

Bit Gold Investopedia Wiki

Szabo, Nick. (2005). “Bit Gold”.
Szabo, Nick. (1997). “The Idea of Smart Contracts”.

Lucre#

Lucre
Laurie, Ben. (2008). “Lucre: Anonymous Electronic Tokens”.

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