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• Class Specific
• Region Specific
  • California
  • Colorado
• Cryptography
• Game Theory
• Blockchain
  • Blockchain Evaluation Flow Charts
• Sociopolitical
• News and Media
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletters and Blogs
• Case Studies and Industry Overviews
• Foundational
• Distributed Systems
• Consensus
• Smart Contracts
• Blockchain Developer Resources
  • Alchemy
  • Algorand
  • Ethereum
  • Polkadot
• Related-Topics
• Other Awesome Lists
• General Reading Lists
• Glossaries, FAQ, & Topical Overviews
• Industry Specific Reports

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Class Specific

• Build a Blockchain Startup - All Available Slides
• Class YouTube Channel

Region Specific

By the most granular geo-location (town -> country) or demographic (online group -> metaverse)

USA

California

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UC Berkeley

• Berkeley Blockchain Ecosystem Resources - Collection of all blockchain resources on campus
• Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator - World-class non-dilutive support for blockchain startups

• Blockchain at Berkeley Twitter - Follow for governance insights and club events!

• Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence
• Haas Blockchain Initiative
• Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Colorado

• Colorado Council for the Advancement of Blockchain Technology
• Cryptocurrency Exemption (Colorado are Token Act)
• Colorado Department of Higher Education - Blockchain
• MyColoradoID (digital driver’s license and more)
• Cryptorado Community - CO Community events & groups - Get involved!

• ETHDenver - hosted mid February, yearly.

  • Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/c/ethdenver
• CO Education Work Lab (C-Lab)

Cryptography

• 📺 Hashing Algorithms and Security Computerphile, 2013

  • Hashing overview. This is the foundation of applied cryptography in may distributed systems. Used for unique fingerprinting of data, data compression, and much more.

• 📺 Public Key Cryptography Computerphile, 2014

  • Foundation of applied cryptography as it relates to sending messages and verifying authenticity of them, It’s at the core of effectively all DWeb and blockchain technology and many many more applications.

• 📺 What are Digital Signatures? Computerphile, 2020

  • Use case for Public key cryptography that is an abstraction of sending an encrypted message Alternatives/supplements (shorter and a bit more approachable than Computerphile ones above on the same topic)

• 📺 Secret Sharing Explained Visually Art of the Problem, 2019

  • An overview of the math behind cryptography (Shamir’s Secret Sharing) to obscure a secret. It’s likely you do not need to understand how the math works, just to be exposed to how it works.

Game Theory

• The Evolution of Trust - Interactive game to learn about game theory basics.
• Five YouTubers. Five games. $10,000. ⋮ Money: the full series - game theory 101 in game show form!

Blockchain

• 📜 Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.

  • https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
  • https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/whitepaper/

• 📺 Blockchain 101 visualized - conceptual explainer

• 📺 Blockchain 101 - A Visual Demo - technical explainer

• 📺 But how does bitcoin actually work? - Bitcoin protocol technical explainer

• 📺 Bitcoin 101 Blackboard Series - Immensely valuable playlist for deep technical understanding of the Bitcoin protocols, but easy for anyone to get a lot our of!

• 📺 Devcon2: Ethereum in 25 Minutes - Early history and technical understanding of the Ethereum protocol.

• 📜 Bitcoin: Economics, Technology and Governance - Rainer Bohme, Nicolas Cristin, Benjamin Edelman, Tyler Moore, 2015.

• 📖 Tapscott, Don and Tapscott, Alex, 2018. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies are Changing the world. New York: Penguin Portfolio

• 📖 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, 2019. Blockchain: The Insights you need From Harvard Business Review. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press

• 📖 Drescher, Daniel. 2017. Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps. New York: Apress. - This book explains the foundational elements of blockchain, including its evolution, and walks a reader through how the blockchain works.

• 📺 Picking the Right Blockchain for the Job - What is the best blockchain for a specific application?

Blockchain Evaluation Flow Charts 

Should I use blockchain?… These can help:

• Public folder with a few to start

• https://medium.com/@sbmeunier/when-do-you-need-blockchain-decision-models-a5c40e7c9ba1

• https://web.archive.org/web/20190508194438/https://medium.com/@sbmeunier/when-do-you-need-blockchain-decision-models-a5c40e7c9ba1

Sociopolitical

Cryptocurrencies especially are not typically a politically neutral technology. Resources here are aimed to discuss this aspect.

• 📺 How the blockchain is changing money and business Don Tapscott, 2016

  • A broad overview of blockchain and motivation as why you should care, and what it could be used for. While this talk is mostly finance focused, there are many use cases noted for things outside this industry alone. Please note: 2016 is very dated and many have been accomplished!

• 📺 Unstoppable Code: The Difference Between Can’t and Won’t

• 📺 What is Consensus: Rules without Rulers

• 📺 The Internet of Money Vol 1 - playlist

• 📺 The Internet of Money Vol 2 - playlist

News and Media

Regularly publish content to stay up-to-date on Web3 industry news.

Podcasts

• 🎙️ Unchained
• 🎙️ The Pomp Podcast
• 🎙️ Epicenter
• 🎙️ On the Brink
• 🎙️ What Bitcoin Did
• 🎙️ Into the Ether
• 🎙️ Zero Knowledge
• 🎙️ The New Future of Work (Making Sense Podcast, Sam Harris)
• 🎙️ H4shr8

Newsletters and Blogs

• https://www.hyperledger.org/news/newsletter
• https://pages.consensys.net/enterprise-ethereum-newsletter-sign-up
• https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/topics/blockchain.html

Case Studies and Industry Overviews

• https://consensys.net/enterprise-ethereum/case-studies/
• https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/industries
• https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/for-business
• https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/understanding-blockchain-potential/global-blockchain-survey.html
• https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/2019-blockchain-social-impact

Foundational

• https://cryptoresearch.report/crypto-research/categories/crypto-concepts/

Distributed Systems

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_data_store
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_networking
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_infrastructure

Consensus

• https://blockgeeks.com/guides/blockchain-consensus/
• https://masterthecrypto.com/guide-to-consensus-algorithms-what-is-consensus-mechanism/
• https://cryptoresearch.report/crypto-research/consensus-mechanisms/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault

Smart Contracts

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract
• https://blockchainhub.net/smart-contracts/

• https://hackernoon.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-smart-contracts-a-beginners-guide-c13cc138378a

• https://blocksdecoded.com/what-is-blockchain-oracle/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_by_design
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing
• https://tokenengineeringcommunity.github.io/website/

Blockchain Developer Resources

Alchemy

• Alchemy University Accounts - Sign up for exclusive university developer accounts

Algorand

• Website
• Berkeley Resource Kit
• Berkeley Workshop Slides
• Workshop Example Code
• 101 Tutorial
• Project Ideas - Somewhat outdated; use with care!

Ethereum

• ⚒ eth.build - Drag & drop building web 3 applications rapidly.
• 🏗 scaffold-eth - Rapid solidity centric dApp framework & learning
• speedrunethereum.com - Learn Solidity in a gamified way!

Polkadot (Parachains & Substrate)

• Polkadot Wiki - Resources for users, builders, and node runners.
• Substrate Home - Lean about the framework and the ecosystem of users.
  • Substrate Devhub - Learn the framework with docs and tutorials.
  • Substrate Stack Exchange - Community driven support and resource base.

Related Topics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_economy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_digitization

Other Awesome Lists

This page is not a complete resource! Other great aggregations of knowledge exist a few are listed here.

General Reading Lists

• https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/

Glossaries, FAQ, & Topical Overviews

• https://a16z.com/2019/11/08/crypto-glossary/
• https://blockgeeks.com/guides/
• https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/
• https://consensys.net/knowledge-base/about-blockchain-technology
• https://consensys.net/knowledge-base/blockchain-super-faq/
• http://blockchain.mit.edu/how-blockchain-works

Industry Specific Reports

• https://consensys.net/blog/news/the-consensys-2019-annual-report/
• https://www.hyperledger.org/resources/publications/hyperledger-annual-report

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