Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a complete environmental disaster. Nano is the future of decentralized currency.

Notes

• Bitcoin is both trust-minimized (even more than gold) yet quite unlike gold digital & easily transferable in its trust-minimized form. It's an unprecedentedly superior form of money, but like anything else new traded in a free market, its historical journey starts off volatile.

• At this point, of all the things Bitcoin can do that other financial assets can't (pseudo-anonymous, extremely hard to confiscate, can be moved quasi instantaneously across borders, demonstrably finite supply, can be use as a settlement layer for large players, etc ...) the one aspect that I believe attracts people is "store of value". Many people contest that last property citing high volatility, and they're correct if your window is less than 4 years. But for folks who play the long game, supply and demand tells a very compelling story for Bitcoin.

Links

• Mastering Bitcoin - Book for developers, although the first two chapters cover bitcoin at a level that is also approachable to non-programmers. (Web)

• Bitcoin for laypeople (2018)

• The Stories We Tell About Money

• Bitcoin: "Failing to Scale" - Prague 2016

• Bitcoin Resources

• Bitcore Node - Full stack for bitcoin and blockchain-based applications.

• nix-bitcoin - Nix packages and nixos modules with profiles for easily installing Bitcoin nodes and higher layer protocols.

• The History and Future of Bitcoin with Dan Held (2019)

• Introducing SOPR: spent outputs to predict bitcoin lows and tops (2019)

• Tokenized - Easiest and safest way to issue, manage and trade security and utility tokens on the Bitcoin SV network.

• Bitcoin Resources

• Mastering the Lightning Network book

• Bitcoin SV - Bitcoin with the original protocol. It can be used for money, but also as a development platform..

• btcwallet - Secure bitcoin wallet daemon written in Go.

• Blockstream Satellite network - Broadcasts the Bitcoin blockchain around the world 24/7 for free.

• Blockstream Satellite Receiver

• State of Digital Assets: Keynote by Cathie Wood (2020)

• SatoshiLabs Improvement Proposals

• Polar - One-click Bitcoin Lightning networks for local app development & testing.

• How we recovered over $300K of Bitcoin (HN)

• MIT Bitcoin Expo 2020 - Bitcoin Core Devs Panel

• Rust language bindings for Bitcoin secp256k1 library

• Bitcoin Indexer - Powerful & versatile Bitcoin Indexer, in Rust.

• Bitcoin Halving 2020 (HN)

• PoX: Proof of Transfer Mining with Bitcoin (2020)

• Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic (2020)

• Neutrino - Privacy-Preserving Bitcoin Light Client.

• bwt - Lightweight HD wallet indexer for Bitcoin, available as an Electrum RPC server and a modern HTTP REST API.

• Prism: Scaling Bitcoin by 10,000x - Rust implementation.

• Bitcoin From Scratch (2020) (HN)

• Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet (2020) (HN)

• Bitcoin Information & Educational Resources

• c-lightning - Lightning Network implementation in C. (Rust bindings) (Go bindings)

• Bitcoin Summer School 2016 (Consensus)

• Vapor - Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP. (HN)

• Takeaways from MicroStrategy CEO 425 million investment into bitcoin (2020)

• Building on Bitcoin #1 — Isaac Morehouse (2020)

• What Comes Next. Building Bit.sv. (2020)

• This Month In Bitcoin Privacy

• RaspiBlitz - Build your own Lightning Node on a RaspberryPi with a nice Display.

• Blockstream.info - Bitcoin Explorer. (Code)

• Electrum Server in Rust

• Esplora - Block chain index engine and HTTP API written in Rust based on romanz/electrs.

• What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018) (HN)

• Bitbo - Real-Time Bitcoin Dashboard.

• Bitcoin at 12 (2020)

• Blockstream - Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure.

• Awesome Lightning Network

• Specter Desktop - Desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets.

• Merkle trees in Git and Bitcoin (2020)

• Chaincode Labs - Exists to support Bitcoin.

• Notes and ideas for development work on Bitcoin Core

• HN: Bitcoin Price Hits All-Time High of $19,786, Topping 2017 Record (2020)

• Scripts, tools & info for doing Bitcoin Core development and code review

• hal - Bitcoin companion. Command line tool that provides all kinds of Bitcoin-related utilities.

• btcd - Alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go.

• Rust Bitcoin Library - Library with support for de/serialization, parsing and executing on data structures and network messages related to Bitcoin.

• Michael Flaxman Research

• Lightning Node Management - Beginner friendly resources to manage a routing node on the Lightning Network. (Code)

• Bitcoin Tutorials - Guides for the RaspiBlitz and Linux desktop. (Code)

• Bitcoin RPC Proxy - Finer-grained permission management for bitcoind.

• Brink - Exists to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol and network through fundamental research and development.

• Study Groups for bitcoin protocol developers

• Bitcoin Protocol Development Curriculum

• Lightning Network Curriculum

• Satoshi Nakamoto Institute (Forum Posts)

• Bitcoin.org Website Code

• Bitcoin Improvement Proposals

• CLIFlix - Watch anything instantaneously, just write its name.

• Bitcoin Cash - Experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. (Code)

• What does BCH offer that Ethereum don't already offer? (2020)

• Teleport Transactions - Software aiming to improve the privacy of bitcoin.

• Bitcoin Archive

• Data on how people rely on Bitcoin to escape high inflation, extortionate remittances, frozen accounts, sanctions, financial isolation (2020)

• Misconceptions about Bitcoin, and Where to Buy (2020) (Tweet)

• BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet and Lightning wallet for iOS and Android. (Code)

• LndHub - Wrapper for Lightning Network Daemon. It provides separate accounts with minimum trust for end users. (Web)

• Umbrel - Personal Bitcoin and Lightning node designed for everyone. (Web)

• Bisq - Safe, private and decentralized way to exchange bitcoin for national currencies and other digital assets. (Code)

• Bitcoin is a disaster (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)

• Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet (2020) (HN)

• Modeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity (2019)

• Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset Model (2020)

• Bitcoin Disrupting Payment Clearing Houses w/ Jack Mallers (2021)

• Strike - Send money instantly, with no fees, anywhere in the world.

• bitcoin-p2p - Rust implementation of Bitcoin p2p protocol.

• Lightning Bitcoin Core - Fully decentralized Internet-of-value protocol for global payments.

• BRD - Bitcoin wallet. (Code)

• Stacks - Makes Bitcoin programmable, enabling decentralized apps and smart contracts that inherit all of Bitcoin’s powers.

• Smart contracts on Bitcoin (2021) (HN)

• Bitcoin Layer 2: Lightning Network Resources

• Clarity Smart Contract Language - Lisp-like Smart Contracts on Bitcoin. (GitHub)

• Revault - Multi-party Bitcoin vault architecture.

• Environmental cost of bitcoin (2021) (HN) (Reddit)

• Bitcoin Treasuries

• Is Bitcoin a Scam? (2021) (HN)

• LNP/BP Standards Association - Specifications, proposals and libraries for things which are not a part of Bitcoin Core / BIPs. (GitHub) (Intro) (FAQ)

• LNP/BP Common Standards

• RGB Con 0 - Day 1 (2020)

• Bitcoin Pro - Professional bitcoin accounts & assets management.

• Pandora Core - Building Layer 2 and 3 technologies enabling scalable smart contracts and AI for Internet of value on top of Lightning Network and Bitcoin protocol. (GitHub)

• lnp-node - Lightning Network Protocol Node.

• Descriptor wallet library - Library for building descriptor-based bitcoin wallets.

• The widening gyre (2021) (HN)

• Nakamoto - Bitcoin light-client implementation in Rust.

• Bitcoin Resources

• 21 Lessons - What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole

• Mempool - Bitcoin block explorer, mempool visualizer, transaction tracker, and fee estimator. (Code)

• Bitcoin and Pollution – The Definitive Answer (2021) (HN)

• End Bitcoin FUD (Tweet)

• Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (HN)