RESOURCES

Below are various resources I’ve used along the way – bookmark this page as a resource and send along any inclusions:

THE BITCOIN WHITEPAPER

BITCOIN RESOURCES:

Bitcoin Blockchain Explorer – you can view the Bitcoin blockchain here

Bitcoin Data Dashboard

The Real Bitcoin Dominance Indicator (the common indicator has many issues)

Map of the Bitcoin Network Nodes

Mempool Space

Bitcoin Derivates Data (Futures)

MVRV Z-Score

Practical Guides to using Bitcoin anonymously – econoalchemist

Bitcoin Resources – James Lopp

Practical Guides, wallet (hardware and software) resources, other software information – Matt Odell

Bitcoin Developer List

Obituary: the all the times Bitcoin has been declared ‘Dead’

Priced in Bitcoin – asset classes priced in Bitcoin

CRYPTO ASSET RESOURCES:

Crypto Asset Market Visualization

Crypto Fear and Greed Index

GlassNode – On-chain data

Crypto Asset Blockchain Data – excel downloads

Crypto Asset Blockchain Data – visualizations

Mining Pools – Aggregator

Crypto Asset Mining Information – compare miner economics

Global Crypto Asset Regulations

Twitter Influencers list – Crypto Assets

FINANCE & ECONOMICS RESOURCES:

Global Economics Data

Economic Database

Personal Finance Resources – Lyn Alden

Robert Shiller – CAPE Ratio and US Real Estate Data

US State Debt Rankings

Mises Institute

Inflation Data

MeasuringWorth.com

Shadowstats.com – the real story of inflation measurement

Realforecasts.com

wtfhappenedin1971 – the changes in our economy that have occured since the Nixon Shock

LIGHTNING RESOURCES:

Lightning Network White Paper

Technical Documents

Lightning labs

Lightning Network Resources

Umbrel Lightning Wallet and Node

NEWS & RESEARCH:

• Feedly News Aggregator
• Crypto News Aggregator (a lot of crap on this but good for push notifications if you download the app)
• Crypto and Bitcoin Forums
• Nakamoto Institute
• Bitcoin Magazine
• BTCM Research – a link to select articles I’ve found valuable
• CoinDesk
• CoinTelegraph
• The Block
• Messari
• Defi Pulse
• Grant’s Interest Rate Observer (subscriptions are expensive but the daily newsletter is free)
• Lyn Alden Newsletter
• The Bitcoin Layer – Nik Bhatia
• The Contrarian Take – Money supply measurement
• Phenomenal World – economics and social policy research
• Newworldeconomics.com
• Wall Street On Parade

BOOKS:

(please purchase any of the free resources – what goes around comes around)

• BITCOIN & LIGHTNING:
  • Learning Python the Hard Way – Zed A. Shaw
  • Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies – Princeton
  • Mastering Bitcoin – Andreas Antonopoulos
  • Mastering Lightning – Andreas Antonopoulos
  • Programming Bitcoin – Jimmy Song
  • Magic Internet Money – Jessie Berger
  • The Bitcoin Standard – Saifedean Ammous
  • The Blocksize War – Jonathan Bier
• ECONOMICS & PHILOSOPHY
  • The Sovereign Individual – James Dale Davidson
  • The Fourth Turning – William Strauss and Neil Howe
  • Economics in One Lesson – Henry Hazlitt
  • Capitalism and Freedom – Milton Friedman
  • Knowledge and Decisions – Thomas Sowell
  • Migrations and Cultures – Thomas Sowell
  • The Road to Serfdom – Friedrich Hayek
  • The Worldly Philosophers – Robert L. HeilBroner
  • Shelling Out: The Origins of Money – Nick Szabo
  • The Origins of Money – Carl Menger
  • Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Inflation
  • Whither Gold? – Antal E. Fekete
• BANKING & FINANCE:
  • The Create from Jekyll Island – G. Edward Griffin
  • Secrets of the Temple – William Greider
  • The Only Game in Town – Muhamed A. El-Erian
  • Incerto – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Margin of Safety – Seth Klarman
  • The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
  • Geopolitical Alpha – Marko Papic
• MISCELLANEOUS:
  • The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
  • This is Water – David Foster Wallace