An introductory guide to Blockchain through whitepapers
Intro to Blockchain:
- Bitcoin (paper) - Blockchain
- Selfish Mining (paper) – security and vulnerabilities, optional
- Ethereum (paper) – Smart contracts
- Town Crier (paper) – Oracles, getting real world info onto the blockchain
Distributed Networks, Scalability:
(Optional, interesting) Exchanges – good intro into the “decentralized” approach for financial systems:
- Criticism of Bancor, "How I Found a $25m Vulnerability in Blockchain" (paper)
- 0x Decentralized Exchange (paper) – automated exchange
- As an example of bad economics, Bancor (paper) – automated market maker with lots of flaws
Privacy – important for questions of KYC/SEC type factors:
Regulation:
- Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and The Social Workings of Law (paper)