Token Economy (Third Edition)
Volume: Web3 Infrastructure
Chapter: Bitcoin, Blockchain and other Distributed Ledgers
Publication Date: 2023
This page lists all the sources used for the research of the chapters and provides a reading list for those who want to learn more about the topics in this chapter. The references are sorted by category, alphabetically, and by date when you select the drop down menu. In the date view, if the full date of a book or academic paper is not known, the last day of the publication year is used. The links on this page will be updated regularly to avoid broken links. Some links, especially those to the Internet Archives, may not be accessible in certain regions due to censorship. Thanks to Quentin Botha for the idea and the manual effort to categorize the references in this database format!
| Category | Full Reference | * |
|---|---|---|
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Web Resources | Antonopoulos, Andreas. “Bitcoin security model: trust by computation”. O’Reilly Radar. Feb 20, 2014. Accessed before May 2020. http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/02/bitcoin-security-model-trust-by-computation.html | |
Web Resources | Back, Adam. “A partial hash collision based postage scheme”. Mar 28, 1997. Accessed before May 2020. http://www.hashcash.org/papers/announce.txt | |
Web Resources | Bitcoin Wiki Contributors. “Colored Coins”. Bitcoin Wiki. May 13, 2020. Accessed May 2020. https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Colored_Coins&oldid=67477 | |
Web Resources | Bitcoin Wiki Contributors. “Softfork”. Bitcoin Wiki. Sep 21, 2018. Accessed Nov 30, 2018. https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Softfork&oldid=65741 | |
Web Resources | Buterin, Vitalik. “On Public and Private Blockchains”. Ethereum Foundation Blog. Aug 07, 2015. Accessed before May 2020. https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/07/on-public-and-private-blockchains | |
Web Resources | Buterin, Vitalik. “The Meaning of Decentralization”. Medium. Feb 06, 2017. Accessed before May 2020. https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274 | |
Web Resources | Crypto51. “PoW 51% Attack Cost”. Creation date unknown. Accessed before May 2020. https://www.crypto51.app/ | |
Web Resources | Evans, Alex. “A Crash Course in Mechanism Design for Cryptoeconomic Applications - Understanding the Basic Fundamentals of ‘Cryptoeconomics’”. BlockChannel Blog. Oct 17, 2017. Accessed before May 2020. https://medium.com/blockchannel/a-crash-course-in-mechanism-design-for-cryptoeconomic-applications-a9f06ab6a976 | |
Web Resources | Gauba, Alexis. “Finality in Blockchain Consensus”. Mechanism Labs Blog. Aug 30, 2018. Accessed before May 2020. https://medium.com/mechanism-labs/finality-in-blockchain-consensus-d1f83c120a9a | |
Web Resources | GoBitcoin. “Cost of a 51% attack”. Creation date unknown. Accessed before May 2020. https://gobitcoin.io/tools/cost-51-attack/ | |
Web Resources | Kravchenko, Pavel. “Ok, I need a blockchain, but which one?”. Medium. Sep 26, 2016. Accessed before May 2020. https://medium.com/@pavelkravchenko/ok-i-need-a-blockchain-but-which-one-ca75c1e2100 | |
Web Resources | Madeira, Antonio. “What are State Channels”. CryptoCompare. Apr 07, 2017. Accessed before May 2020. https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/what-are-state-channels/ | |
Web Resources | N.N. “Blockchains: The great chain of being sure about things”. The Economist. Oct 31, 2015. Accessed before May 2020. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2015/10/31/the-great-chain-of-being-sure-about-things | |
Web Resources | Polynya. “Convergent evolution: how rollups + data shards became the ultimate solution”. Medium. Jul 04, 2021. Accessed between October 2022 and February 2023. https://polynya.medium.com/convergent-evolution-how-rollups-data-shards-became-the-ultimate-solution-6e931e642be0 | |
Web Resources | Polynya. “How Ethereum scales: simplified”. Medium. Feb 10, 2022. Accessed before May 2020. https://polynya.medium.com/how-ethereum-scales-simplified-9f42f43b6bb5 | |
Web Resources | Polynya. “Rollups, data availability layers & modular blockchains: introductory meta post”. Medium. Oct 14, 2021. Accessed before May 2020. https://polynya.medium.com/rollups-data-availability-layers-modular-blockchains-introductory-meta-post-5a1e7a60119d | |
Web Resources | Qureshi, Haseeb. “I’m Worried Nobody Will Care About Rollups”. Dragonfly Research Blog. Jul 08, 2021. Accessed between October 2022 and February 2023. https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/im-worried-nobody-will-care-about-rollups-554bc743d4f1 | |
Web Resources | Ray, Shaan. “What are Sidechains?”. Hackernoon. Jan 22, 2018. Accessed before May 2020. https://hackernoon.com/what-are-sidechains-1c45ea2daf3 | |
Web Resources | Stark, Josh. “Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics”. CoinDesk. Aug 19, 2017. Accessed before May 2020. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/08/19/making-sense-of-cryptoeconomics/ | |
Web Resources | Stricker, Georg. “Celestia: The General-Purpose Data Availability Layer of the Decentralized Internet”. Signature Ventures Blog. Mar 19, 2021. Accessed between October 2022 and February 2023. https://medium.com/signature-ventures/lazyledger-the-general-purpose-data-availability-layer-of-the-decentralized-internet-96005f46af29 | |
Web Resources | Tarar, Satyawan. “A Crash Course on Consensus Protocols”. Medium. May 09, 2018. Accessed before May 2020. https://medium.com/@satyawan.tarar1985/a-crash-course-on-consensus-protocols-29264c393097 | |
Web Resources | Tomaino, Nick. “Cryptoeconomics 101”. The Control Blog. Jun 04, 2017. Accessed before May 2020. https://thecontrol.co/cryptoeconomics-101-e5c883e9a8ff | |
Web Resources | Tual, Stephan. “What are State Channels?”. Stephan Taul’s Blog. Jan 04, 2017. Accessed before May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20190823113041/https://blog.stephantual.com/what-are-state-channels-32a81f7accab?gi=77224ec6a07b | |
Web Resources | Vaibhav, Saini. “10 State Channel Projects Every Blockchain Developer Should Know About”. Hackernoon. Jun 23, 2018. Accessed before May 2020. https://hackernoon.com/10-state-channel-projects-every-blockchain-developer-should-know-about-293514a516fd | |
Web Resources | Vaibhav, Saini. “11 sidechain projects every blockchain developer should know about”. Apr 26, 2018. Accessed before May 2020. https://hackernoon.com/13-sidechain-projects-every-blockchain-developer-should-know-about-804b65364107 | |
Web Resources | Vaibhav, Saini. “Difference between SideChains and State Channels”. Hackernoon. Jun 23, 2018. Accessed before May 2020. https://hackernoon.com/difference-between-sidechains-and-state-channels-2f5dfbd10707 | |
Web Resources | Voshmgir, Shermin. “Blockchain & Sustainability”. Crypto3conomics Blog. Aug 11, 2018. Accessed before May 2020. https://medium.com/crypto3conomics/blockchain-sustainability-7d1dd90e9db6 | |
Web Resources | Wei, Bai. “Mechanism Design in Cryptoeconomics”. SECBIT Media. May 31, 2018. Accessed before May 2020. https://medium.com/secbit-media/mechanism-design-in-cryptoeconomics-6630673b79af | |
Web Resources | Wikipedia Contributors. “Blockchain”. Wikipedia. Jan 14, 2018. Accessed Nov 11, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blockchain&oldid=820414615 | |
Web Resources | Witherspoon, Zane. “A Hitchiker’s Guide to Consensus Algorithms”. Hackernoon. Nov 29, 2017. Accessed before May 2020. https://hackernoon.com/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-consensus-algorithms-d81aae3eb0e3 | |
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Papers | Ballandies, Mark C.; Dapp, Marcus M.; Pournaras, Evangelos. “Decrypting Distributed Ledger Design - Taxonomy, Classification and Blockchain Community Evaluation”. Cluster Computing Volume 25 (April 2021): pp. 1817-1838. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.03419.pdf | |
Papers | Catalini, Christian; Gans, Joshua S. “Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain”. SSRN Electronic Journal. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 22952 (2016): http://www.nber.org/papers/w22952 | |
Papers | Gervais, Arthur; Karame, Ghassan; Capkun, Vedran; Capkun, Srdjan. “Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Currency?”. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine Volume 12, Issue 3 (June 2014): pp. 54-60. 10.1109/MSP.2014.49 | |
Papers | Golden, Sara L. M.; Price, Allison. “Sustainable Supply Chains - Better Global Outcomes with Blockchain”. Blockchain Trust Accelerator (2018): https://d1y8sb8igg2f8e.cloudfront.net/documents/BTA_Supply_Chain_Report_r2.pdf | |
Papers | Jackson, Matthew O. “Mechanism Theory”. Humanities and Social Sciences 228-77, California Institute of Technology Pasadena (2000): https://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/mechtheo.pdf | |
Papers | Nakamoto, Satoshi. “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. Oct 31, 2008. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf | |
Papers | Poelstra, Andrew. “Mimblewimble”. (October 2016): http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/mimblewimble-andytoshi-draft-2016-10-20.pdf | |
Papers | Stathakopoulou, Chrysoula; Cachin, Christian. “Threshold Signatures for Blockchain Systems”. IBM Research RZ3910 (2017): https://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers/CA80E201DE9C8A0A852580FA004D412F/$File/rz3910.pdf | |
Papers | Tasca, Paolo; Tessone, Claudio J. “A Taxonomy of Blockchain Technologies: Principles of Identification and Classification”. Ledger Volume 4 (February 2019): https://ledger.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ledger/issue/view/5 | |
Papers | Wang, Wenbo; Hoang, Dinh T.; Hu, Peizhao; Xiong, Zehui; Niyato, Dusit; Wang, Ping; Wen, Yonggang; Kim, Dong I. “A Survey on Consensus Mechanisms and Mining Strategy Management in Blockchain Networks”. IEEE Access 7 (2019): 22328–70. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2896108. | |
Project | Alpha Elements: https://elementsproject.org/ | |
Project | Ambrosus: https://ambrosus.io/ | |
Project | Bitcoin Cash: https://www.bitcoincash.org/ | |
Project | Bitcoin Diamond: https://www.bitcoindiamond.org/ | |
Project | Bitcoin Gold: https://bitcoingold.org/ | |
Project | Bitcoin Platinum: https://bitcoin-platinum.com/ | |
Project | BitShares: https://bitshares.github.io/ | |
Project | Blackcoin: https://blackcoin.org/ | |
Project | Cardano: https://cardano.org/en/home/ | |
Project | Celer Network: http://celer.network/ | |
Project | Cosmos: https://cosmos.network/ | |
Project | Counterfactual: http://counterfactual.com/ | |
Project | Decred: https://decred.org/ | |
Project | Dfinity: https://dfinity.org/ | |
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Project | Ethereum Classic: https://ethereumclassic.org/ | |
Project | Fairfood: http://fairfood.nl/ | |
Project | FunFair: https://funfair.io/ | |
Project | Hivemind: http://bitcoinhivemind.com/ | |
Project | Hyperledger: https://www.hyperledger.org/ | |
Project | IoT Chain: https://iotchain.io/ | |
Project | IOTA: https://iota.org/ | |
Project | Lightning Network: https://lightning.network/ | |
Project | Liquid: https://blockstream.com/liquid/ | |
Project | Liquidity Network: https://liquidity.network/ | |
Project | Lisk: https://lisk.io/ | |
Project | Litecoin: https://litecoin.org/ | |
Project | Loom: https://loomx.io/ | |
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Project | Nano: https://nano.org/en | |
Project | Neo: https://neo.org/ | |
Project | NuBits: https://nubits.com/ | |
Project | Nxt: https://nxt.org/ | |
Project | Obyte (Byteball): https://byteball.org/ | |
Project | Ocean: https://oceanprotocol.com/ | |
Project | Ontology: https://ont.io/ | |
Project | OriginTrail: https://origintrail.io/ | |
Project | PegaSys: https://pegasys.finance/ | |
Project | Perun Network: https://perun.network/ | |
Project | Plasma: https://plasma.io/ | |
Project | POA Network: https://poa.network/ | |
Project | Provenance: https://provenance.io/ | |
Project | Prysmatic Labs: https://prysmaticlabs.com/ | |
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Project | Raiden Network: https://raiden.network/ | |
Project | Ripple: https://ripple.com/ | |
Project | Rootstock: https://rsk.co/ | |
Project | SpankChain: https://spankchain.com/ | |
Project | Status: https://status.im/ | |
Project | Steemit: https://steemit.com/ | |
Project | Steemit: https://steemit.com/ | |
Project | Stellar: https://stellar.org/ | |
Project | Tezos: https://tezos.com/ | |
Project | Trinity Network: https://trinity.tech | |
Project | Vechain: https://www.vechain.org/ | |
Project | Wabi: https://wabi.io/ | |
Project | Waltonchain: https://www.waltonchain.org/ |