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Opinioned Blockchain Reading List

A collection of blockchain resources.

General

Consensus

Cryptography

Web3

Interoperability

• Blockchain Interoperability: Cosmos vs. Polkadot

Bitcoin

• Leaf-Node weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design
• SDLerner
• Lessons on Bubbles From Bitcoin
• Explanation of what an OP_RETURN transaction looks like
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862077
• https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/12954/why-the-timestamp-component-of-the-block-header
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2r04xi/genesis_block_and_following_blocks_timestamps_are/
• https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/786/is-the-timestamp-in-the-genesis-block-relevant
• https://github.com/ZtesoftCS/go-ethereum-code-analysis

Ethereum

• Getting Deep Into EVM: How Ethereum Works Backstage
• MEV in eth2 - an early exploration

Governance

• Blockchains should not be democracies

Scaling

• sharding
• How to Scale Ethereum: Sharding Explained

Fundamental Concepts

Digital singatures

• http://learnmeabitcoin.com/guide/digital_signatures

Fork

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardfork
• https://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/block-number-matters-with-crypto-forks/

Ricardian Contracts

• programmer walk thru of Ricardian Contract in EOS
• Ricardian contracts — legally binding agreements on the blockchain
• Smart Contracts — 3 limitations of a self-enforcing agreement
• Live Contracts — What’s all the fuss about?

Replay Attacks

• Replay Attacks Explained

Self Mining

• ON PROFITABILITY OF SELFISH MINING

• multisignature vs threshold signature

Other recommandations

• https://github.com/bftfio/bftfio.github.io