Crypto Reading

Below is a list of worthwhile posts about cryptocurrency. Best to read in chronological order:

2008

• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System — the original Bitcoin whitepaper published pseudonymously by Satoshi Nakamoto. It’s succinct and surprisingly accessible to a nonexpert.

2011

• Bitcoin — by Fred Wilson

2013

• Coinbase — by Chris Dixon
• Why I’m interested in Bitcoin — by Chris Dixon

2014

• Why Bitcoin Matters — by Marc Andreessen

2016

• Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency — by Fred Ehrsam
• Fat Protocols — by Joel Monegro

2017

• Value of the Token Model — by Fred Ehrsam
• A beginner’s guide to Ethereum — by Linda Xie
• The Meaning of Decentralization — by Vitalik Buterin
• Thoughts on Tokens — by Balaji Srinivasan
• Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design — by Chris Dixon
• Analyzing Token Sale Models — by Vitalik Buterin
• Cryptocurrency’s Netscape Moment — by Elad Gil
• Permissionless — by Alok Vasudev
• The Slow Death of the Firm — by Nick Tomaino
• Big Banks And Blockchain — by Elad Gil

2018

• Why decentralization matters — by Chris Dixon
• And What Has the Blockchain Ever Done for Us? — by Balaji Srinivasan
• Stablecoins: designing a price-stable cryptocurrency — by Haseeb Qureshi

2019

• Yes, You May Need a Blockchain — by Balaji Srinivasan
• The future of decentralized finance — by Linda Xie
• The Pseudonymous Economy — by Balaji Srinivasan

2020

• Credible Neutrality As A Guiding Principle — by Vitalik Buterin
• A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) — by Sid Coelho-Prabhu
• The Ownership Economy — by Jesse Walden
• Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic — by Matt Huang
• Creators, Communities, and Crypto — by Fred Ehrsam
• What explains the rise of AMMs? — by Haseeb Qureshi
• Ethereum is a Dark Forest — by Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos

2021

• Surviving Crypto Cycles — by Fred Ehrsam
• The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse — by Packy McCormick
• MEV and Me — by Charlie Noyes
• NFTs make the internet ownable — by Jesse Walden
• NFTs and A Thousand True Fans — by Chris Dixon
• A beginner’s guide to DAOs — by Linda Xie
• The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy — by Vitalik Buterin
• The Great Online Game — by Packy McCormick
• India & Crypto series — by Balaji Srinivasan
• Own the Internet — by Packy McCormick
• Why web3 matters — by Chris Dixon
• Composability is Innovation — by Linda Xie
• The Strongest Crypto Gaming Thesis — by gubsheep
• Endgame — by Vitalik Buterin
• Trading the metagame — by Cobie 
• The Mirrortable — by Balaji Srinivasan

2022

• 2021 NFT Year in Review — by 1confirmation
• Soulbound — by Vitalik Buterin
• Hyperstructures — by Jacob Horne
• Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks — by Varun Srinivasan

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