Bitcoin Information & Resources (#GotBitcoin)

Getting Started:

• Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five
• Bitcoin Explained (illustrated guide in simple terms)
• The Bitcoin Whitepaper written by Satoshi Nakamoto
• The Bitcoin Whitepaper with annotations
• The Bitcoin Whitepaper read out loud
• The Value of Blockchains
• How Bitcoin Works (non technical) (5 min video)
• How Bitcoin Works (a bit technical) (5 min video)
• How Bitcoin Works (very technical) (26 min video)
• How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood (22 min video)
• Bitcoin 101 (Balaji Srinivasan)
• Bitcoin for Beginners (Andreas Antonopoulos)
• Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin by CoinDesk
• Bitcoin is Like…
• A Bitcoin Webcomic (with educational notes)
• Bitcoin Infographics
• The Trust Machine: The Story of Bitcoin
• Reading Bitcoin – translated articles

The History of Bitcoin:

• The Rise of the Cypherpunks
• Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree
• cryptoanarchy.wiki
• Complete Writings of Satoshi Nakamoto
• The Book of Satoshi
• Original Announcement Email Thread
• Historical Literature (work that preceded Bitcoin)
• Essays on Bitcoin
• History from Cypherpunks to JP Morgan
• Digital Gold
• The Age of Cryptocurrency
• History Timeline
• Bryan Bishop’s Bitcoin Event Transcripts
• Premature Obituaries
• Bitcoin’s Family Tree
• What’s Driving the Cryptocurrency Phenomenon?

News Sites:

• BeInCrypto
• Bitcoin Magazine
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter
• The Block
• Coindesk
• CoinJournal
• Hodl Hodl News
• Merkle Report
• Messari

Discussion Forums:

• Bitcoin Subreddit
• Bitcoin Beginners Subreddit
• Bitcoin IRC Channel
• Bitcoin Core Slack
• Bitcoin Core Telegram
• Bitcoin Talk Forum
• Bitcoin Development Mailing List

Miscellaneous Statistics:

• AsicBoost Stats
• Blockchain Charts
• Bitcoin Charts
• Bitcoin Core Benchmarks
• Bitcoin Optech Dashboards
• Bitcoin Visuals
• Bitcoin Nodes by Country
• Non-Listening Node Software Estimates
• Bitcoin demographics & misc stats
• Bitcoin Richlist
• Bitcoinity – Exchange & Blockchain stats
• BitInfoCharts (Comparison of misc cryptocurrencies)
• Casascius Coin Tracker
• Coin Metrics – Open Source Analytics
• DSN Network Stats
• FIBRE Network Stats
• How Many Confs (mining security comparison)
• Joehoe’s Mempool Size Stats
• Mempool.space future block predictions
• OP_RETURN Stats
• Payment Stats
• P2SH.info – historical block & transaction stats
• Statoshi.info – realtime Bitcoin node stats
• TradeBlock – realtime block & mempool stats
• Transaction fee & UTXO stats
• UTXO Age
• UTXO Age (HODL Waves)
• UTXOs Created Per Day

Transaction Fee Estimates:

• Transaction Fee Estimates (many sources)
• Bitcoin Core Fee Estimates
• Bitcoiner.live
• Earn.com Fee Estimates
• Coinbin Fee Estimates
• fees.truelevel.io
• Mempool Based Fee Estimates
• Fee Efficiency Checker

Block Explorers:

• Apirone.com
• bitaps
• Blockstream.info
• BlockCypher
• btc.chaintools.io
• OXT – blockchain explorer + privacy analysis
• Blockpath Explorer + Addr/Tx Relationships
• SoChain
• Wallet Explorer
• Yogh.io – raw data block explorer

Visualizations:

• Bitcoin City
• Blocks & Transactions by Geography
• Bitcoin Globe Transactions
• BitBonkers Blocks & Transactions
• Chainflyer Blocks & Transactions
• Live Node Geographic Map
• Live Node Network ASN Map
• Bitforce5 Transaction Relationships
• Daily Blockchain Transactions Relationships
• BitListen – Transactions by Value
• Visual Blockchain – Transactions by Coin Age
• Virtual Reality Transactions by Value
• Bitcoin Monitor – Transactions by Value
• Federal Bitcoin – Transactions by Value
• Interaqt – Transactions by Value
• Value Visualizer – Transactions by Value
• Fiat Leak – Realtime Exchange Flows
• Bitcoin Rain – Transactions
• OXT.me Landscapes
• Blockchain 3D Explorer 3D and VR visualizations
• IOHK – Interactive audiovisual blockchain
• Adjacency Matrix Interactive Tool – Value Flow Between Block Heights
• Misc transaction visualizations

Mining:

• The History of Bitcoin Mining
• How Bitcoin Mining Works (in layman’s terms)
• Getting Started Guide
• Mining Hardware Profitability Calculator
• Mining Pool Relative Profitability
• Realtime Mining Statistics
• Difficulty Estimator
• Cryptocoin mining relative profitability
• Mining pool hashrate distribution
• Organ of Corti (mining / network analysis blog)
• Satoshi Blocks (allegedly mined by Satoshi)

Data Anchoring:

• What is Data Anchoring?
• CoinSecrets (view OP_RETURN data)
• BitcoinStrings (view embedded data)
• Liquid Sidechain Stats
• Rootstock Sidechain Stats
• VeriBlock Stats
• Blockcerts (blockchain credentials)
• Eternity Wall (store messages)
• Factom (record management)
• Keybase (secure filesystem)
• Mainstay (sidechain platform)
• Omni Layer (asset platform)
• Openchain (sidechain platform)
• OpenTimestamps
• Proof of Existence (document timestamping)
• Stampery (data certification)
• Tierion (proofs & timestamping)

Deep Dive Technical Resources:

• Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Technologies (Princeton textbook)
• Bitcoin Developer Guide
• Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
• Bitcoin Edge Workshop (20+ hours of tutorials)
• Bitcoin Protocol tutorials
• Crypto Primitives tutorials
• Bitcoin Ninja
• Bitcoin Protocol Reference
• Bitcoin Stack Exchange (Technical Q & A)
• The Bitcoin Wiki
• Blockchain Reading List
• Comprehensive Academic Bitcoin Research Archive
• How the Bitcoin Protocol Actually Works
• Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line
• Mastering Bitcoin
• Programming Bitcoin
• Grokking Bitcoin
• Epic List of Bitcoin Books
• Intro to Bitcoin for Developers
• Programming the Blockchain in C#
• Using the Raw Bitcoin Protocol
• A Peek Under Bitcoin’s Hood
• How to Parse the Bitcoin Blockchain
• Bitcoin Developer Network (BDN)

Developer Tools:

• Awesome Extensive Tools List
• BlockSci high performance query engine
• BTCPay Payment Processor
• Bitcoin Graph Database Builder
• BitcoinJS: JavaScript Library
• bcoin: JavaScript full node & library
• Bitcoin Java Library
• Bitcoin Python Library
• Bitcoin Script IDE
• Bitcoin Script Debugger 2
• Bitcoin Script Debugger 3
• Bitcoin Core RPC Documentation
• Bitcoin Core RPC Docs by Version
• HD Key Derivation Tool
• NodeJS HD Key Library
• Libbitcoin
• RPC GUI tool
• Vanity Address Generator
• GPU Vanity Address Generator
• Wallet Recovery (brute forcing) tool
• xpub Version Converter
• Bitcoin Scala library

Security:

• Bitcoin’s Security Model: A Deep Dive
• Bitcoin Security & Storage 101 (Pamela Morgan)
• Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning (Pamela Morgan)
• Coindesk’s Bitcoin Storage Guide
• Cryptocurrency Security Standard (for enterprises)
• Glacier: A protocol for high security Bitcoin storage
• Intro to Paper Wallets & Cold Storage (James D’Angelo)
• Jolly Roger’s Security Guide for Beginners (online OPSEC)
• Paper Wallet Cold Storage Guide (advanced users only!)
• Securing Your Wallet
• Thoughts on Secure Storage of Crypto Assets
• Bitcoin’s Balance of Power
• Crypto Scam Checker
• Documented Physical Attacks

Privacy:

• Anonymous Bitcoin
• Open Bitcoin Privacy Project’s Wallet Reviews
• Bitcoin Wiki Article
• Bitcoin.org’s Privacy Guide
• Bitcoin Privacy Primer
• JoinMarket (CoinJoin software)
• How TumbleBit Works
• How to Run Bitcoin as a Tor Hidden Service on Ubuntu
• ZeroLink: The Bitcoin Fungibility Framework

Setting up a Wallet:

Choose your wallet here
You’ll note that there are a variety of options.
My wallet recommendations:

• Hardware: Trezor or Ledger Nano S
• Desktop: Electrum
• Android: Samourai Wallet
• iPhone: Blockstream Green
• Web: BitGo
• Extreme Privacy: Wasabi
• Extreme Security: Casa

Note that it is NOT recommended that Bitcoin newcomers use the Bitcoin Core wallet. If you want to use a wallet backed by a fully validating node you run, read Securing Your Financial Sovereignty.

Running a Node:

• Why Run a Full Node?
• How to Run a Full Node
• Bitcoin Core Config File Generator
• Casa Plug & Play Node
• Raspberry Pi Node Guide

Created By: JAMESON LOPP

Professional Cypherpunk
Creator of Statoshi
CTO at Casa