Blockchain Bible Chapter 3: Crypto Concepts

In the first part of my Blockchain Bible series, I presented the foundations and fundamentals of blockchain technology. Other guides may tell you to hop into white papers right away. This is not the best way to learn. Without an elementary understanding of blockchain, many white papers can cause greater confusion because you lack the framework.

In the second part of the Blockchain Bible series, we examined the academic underpinnings of blockchain. These articles show you that cryptocurrency and blockchain did not appear overnight. Smart minds had been thinking about it for a long time.

In this third section, we will examine some key, essential concepts surrounding blockchain. If you didn't read chapter one or chapter two, you need to read them. Without that foundation, many of these concepts will go over your head.

 

 

Part 3: Crypto Concepts (24 Concepts to Crypto Clarity)

3.01 Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble by Steven Johnson
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html

3.02 Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design by Christopher Dixon
https://medium.com/@cdixon/crypto-tokens-a-breakthrough-in-open-network-design-e600975be2ef 

3.03 Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation by Albert Wenger
http://continuations.com/post/148098927445/crypto-tokens-and-the-coming-age-of-protocol 

3.04 Fat Protocols by Joel Monegro
https://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols 

3.05 Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols by Olaf Carson-Wee and Christopher Dixon
https://a16z.com/2017/04/03/cryptocurrencies-protocols-appcoins/

3.06 Getting Applications into People’s Hands by Juan Benet and Christopher Dixon
https://a16z.com/2017/09/14/networks-protocols-labs-tokens/

3.07 Blockchain: What Is It Good for? by Edward Felten
http://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/02/26/blockchain-what-is-it-good-for/

3.08 How the US Government Used Blockchain to Fight Fraud by Kathryn Haun
https://youtu.be/507wn9VcSAE 

3.09 Bitcoin Network Effects by Elad Gil
http://blog.eladgil.com/2017/12/bitcoin-network-effects_11.html

3.10 Keepers: Workers That Maintain Blockchain Networks  by Ryan Zurrer
https://medium.com/@rzurrer/keepers-workers-that-maintain-blockchain-networks-a40182615b66

3.11 The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency by Tim Ferris
https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/

3.12 Why Crypto Tokens Matter by Fred Ehrsam and Christopher Dixon
https://a16z.com/2017/09/28/cryptocurrencies-networks-tokens/

3.13 What Are Cryptonetworks and Why Are Tokens Fundamental? by Nick Grossman
https://www.nickgrossman.is/2018/cryptonetworks-and-why-tokens-are-fundamental/

3.14 Why It’s Hard to “Get” Bitcoin by Dhruv Bansal
https://blog.unchained-capital.com/blockchain-spectrum-806847e1c575

3.15 Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability by Nick Szabo
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html

3.16 What Do We Mean by “Blockchains Are Trustless”? by Preethi Kasireddy
https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/eli5-what-do-we-mean-by-blockchains-are-trustless-aa420635d5f6 

3.17 Why Decentralization Matters  by Christopher Dixon
https://medium.com/@cdixon/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f79f7638e

3.18 The Meaning of Decentralization by Vitalik Buterin
https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274

3.19 Quantifying Decentralization by Balaji Srinivasan and Leland Lee
https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e

3.20 The Truth About Blockchain by Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani
https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-truth-about-blockchain

3.21 The Slow Death of the Firm by Nick Tomaino
https://thecontrol.co/the-slow-death-of-the-firm-1bd6cc81286b

3.22 Vitalik Buterin by Laura Shin
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unchained-big-ideas-from-worlds-blockchain-cryptocurrency/id1123922160

3.23 Mental Models for Understanding Tokens by Nick Tomaino and Christopher Dixon
https://a16z.com/2018/01/21/mental-models-tokens-crypto-trends/

3.24 Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults, and Coercion by Vitalik Buterin
https://vitalik.ca/general/2017/03/14/forks_and_markets.html

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