ADDITIONAL BITCOIN RESOURCES
Before Bitcoin was a global phenomenon, it was an idea posted to an email list for cryptographers. The so-called Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto is not an easy read for the layman but it's a fascinating document.
After lingering in obscurity for over a year, a few news stories helped Bitcoin attract a crowd. An unremarkable Slashdot item in 2010 drew in many of the developers who later helped shape Bitcoin and led to the creation of the exchange Mt. Gox. The first mainstream attention came in the spring of 2011, when Jerry Brito wrote up a story on one of Time's blogs explaining the basic significance of Bitcoin. Less than two months later, the floodgates opened when Adrian Chen, of Gawker, introduced the world to Silk Road, the online drug bazaar where Bitcoin was the only currency accepted.
The fall of 2011 brought several important magazine stories that explained Bitcoin and looked for the identity behind the mysterious creator of the virtual currency. The best of the bunch was Joshua Davis's article in The New Yorker. A short while later, Wired did a commendable job summarizing the various efforts to chase down Satoshi Nakamoto. This all came before the remarkable research from the Argentinian research Sergio Demian Lerner looking at the patterns of Bitcoin mining during the first year, and what it seemed to say about Satoshi. More recently, a blogger named Skye Grey has pulled together some important data points in the search for Satoshi.
Few stories
fed paper
andreessen dealbook essay http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/
good history of payments -- and insight on how micropayments can work -- walter isaacson -- http://time.com/3476313/can-bitcoin-save-journalism/
voorhees libertarian arguement --
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tfP7vYsQA2gJ:evoorhees.blogspot.com/2012/04/bitcoin-libertarian-introduction.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
rolling stone -- ulbricht
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/
christin paper https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/files/pdfs/tech_reports/CMUCyLab12018.pdf
meiklejohn paper --
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
grinberg legal paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1817857
the fed's take http://www.coindesk.com/federal-reserve-bitcoin-potential-boon-global-commerce/
mross
adrian jefferies -- may 2013 post
felix-
https://medium.com/@felixsalmon/the-bitcoin-bubble-and-the-future-of-currency-2b5ef79482cb
izabella -- essay on the dangers of bitcoin after mt gox failure
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/03/03/1787992/magic-the-undercapitalised-gathering-online/
a whole section
tim swanson critique
http://www.ofnumbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/What-we-have-today.pdf
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html shells
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
http://www.coindesk.com/battle-explainer-videos-tells-bitcoins-story-best/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4 we use bitcoins -- first and most popular
guardian did a good job -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4g1XFU8Gto
for a more involved - sal khan -- khan academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-what-is-it
After lingering in obscurity for over a year, a few news stories helped Bitcoin attract a crowd. An unremarkable Slashdot item in 2010 drew in many of the developers who later helped shape Bitcoin and led to the creation of the exchange Mt. Gox. The first mainstream attention came in the spring of 2011, when Jerry Brito wrote up a story on one of Time's blogs explaining the basic significance of Bitcoin. Less than two months later, the floodgates opened when Adrian Chen, of Gawker, introduced the world to Silk Road, the online drug bazaar where Bitcoin was the only currency accepted.
The fall of 2011 brought several important magazine stories that explained Bitcoin and looked for the identity behind the mysterious creator of the virtual currency. The best of the bunch was Joshua Davis's article in The New Yorker. A short while later, Wired did a commendable job summarizing the various efforts to chase down Satoshi Nakamoto. This all came before the remarkable research from the Argentinian research Sergio Demian Lerner looking at the patterns of Bitcoin mining during the first year, and what it seemed to say about Satoshi. More recently, a blogger named Skye Grey has pulled together some important data points in the search for Satoshi.
Few stories
fed paper
andreessen dealbook essay http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/
good history of payments -- and insight on how micropayments can work -- walter isaacson -- http://time.com/3476313/can-bitcoin-save-journalism/
voorhees libertarian arguement --
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tfP7vYsQA2gJ:evoorhees.blogspot.com/2012/04/bitcoin-libertarian-introduction.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
rolling stone -- ulbricht
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/
christin paper https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/files/pdfs/tech_reports/CMUCyLab12018.pdf
meiklejohn paper --
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
grinberg legal paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1817857
the fed's take http://www.coindesk.com/federal-reserve-bitcoin-potential-boon-global-commerce/
mross
adrian jefferies -- may 2013 post
felix-
https://medium.com/@felixsalmon/the-bitcoin-bubble-and-the-future-of-currency-2b5ef79482cb
izabella -- essay on the dangers of bitcoin after mt gox failure
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/03/03/1787992/magic-the-undercapitalised-gathering-online/
a whole section
tim swanson critique
http://www.ofnumbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/What-we-have-today.pdf
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html shells
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
http://www.coindesk.com/battle-explainer-videos-tells-bitcoins-story-best/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4 we use bitcoins -- first and most popular
guardian did a good job -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4g1XFU8Gto
for a more involved - sal khan -- khan academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-what-is-it
