In the first part of my Blockchain Bible series, I presented the sources for you to get a fundamental understanding of blockchain technology. Many guides will tell you to read Satoshi's white paper first. However, without a simple understanding of blockchain, hopping into white papers can lead to even greater confusion.
In this section, these assembled articles will show you the academic underpinnings to modern crypto. How did we get here?
If you look closely, you'll notice that academics have been thinking of these issues for decades.
1. 2009 - Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
2. 2013 - Ethereum Ehitepaper by Vitalik Buterin
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
3. 1982 - The Byzantine Generals Problem by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs174/byzantine.pdf
4. 1988 - The Agoric Papers by Mark Miller and K. Eric Drexler
https://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers.html
5. 1997 - Idea of Smart Contracts by Nick Szabo
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/idea.html
6. 2014 - Why Bitcoin Matters by Marc Andreessen
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/
7. 2017 - Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree by Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559
Some of the material can be dense, so if you need to re-read these papers a few times, it is perfectly normal.
Source Post Here: Blockchain Bible Chapter 2: Academic Underpinnings to Modern Crypto
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