Blockchain Bib

A Bibtex bibliography for Bitcoin and blockchain related papers and publications.

Structure of this bibliography

The scientific community adapted relatively slow to this emerging and fast moving field of cryptographic currencies and blockchains. This was the reason that for quite a while the only resources available have been the Bitcoin source code, blog/forum/mailing list posts, and other online publications. Also the original Bitcoin paper which initiated the hype was published online without any prior peer-review.

Meanwhile a constant flow of scientific publications can be observed. This leads to an increasing number of available peer-reviewed publications. Although peer-review is not always a guaranty for best quality, we initially distinguish publications in this field into three different categories. The nonnegotiable hard requirement for any category is that the work must be open-access and not locked behind pay-walls.

blockchain_peerreviewed.bib References in this category are peer-reviewed papers which have been published on scientific venues (e.g. conferences proceedings, journals, workshops, etc.)
blockchain_eprint.bib References in this category are preprints/eprints of papers (for example on http://arxiv.org) that have not been published at an peer-reviewed venue (yet). The criteria for a paper/publication in this category is:
- based on facts
- systematic structure
- no marketing
- not pure speculation
- written in comprehensible English
blockchain_online.bib References in this category are online resources like for example:
- github projects
- block explorer websites
- developer references (wiki entries, etc.)

Again the requirements form above hold: + not purely marketing (some banners on websites are acceptable) + not pure speculation + written in comprehensible English

In respect to the original publication spirit of Bitcoin, we combine all references into a single blob file called blockchain.bib when executing make in the projects root directory.

Download papers

To download the papers into the ./papers folder type:

$ python fetch_pdfs.py ./blockchain_peerreviewed.bib papers/

Generate html list

To generate a html paper list you need to clone/install the bibloograpy tool by Philipp Winter.

$ git clone https://github.com/NullHypothesis/bibliograpy 
$ cd blockchainbib
$ bash generate.sh

Related work

A list of other collections of resources on this topic:

Jeremy Clacks collection:
- http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/biblio.php#bitcoin
Brett Scott collection (huge):
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VaWhbAj7hWNdiE73P-W-wrl5a0WNgzjofmZXe0Rh5sg/htmlview?usp=sharing&pli=1&sle=true
Collection in the Bitcoin wiki (subset of the above)
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Research
Collection in the Bitcoinbyte blog (outdated)
- https://thebitcoinbyte.wordpress.com/annotated-bibliography/

Contribute

Add/Update an entry in the .bib file

Add or update the bib entry and run the test/Makefile to see if everything works as expected.

$ cd ./test
$ make 
$ evince bare_jrnl.pdf

License

Bibliography license: CC BY

Python code and .tpl templates license: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Credits

All authors that created the publications listed in this bibliography
Philipp Winter (phw[at]nymity.ch) for the python fetch code and the .tpl templates
Aljosha Judmayer (ajudmayer[at]sba-research[dot]org)

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