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The Best Crypto Resources

Last updated: April 11, 20218 Comments

Here’s a collection of my favorite resources from the world of cryptocurrency, ICOs, tokens and blockchains.

If you’re new to the world of crypto and you’re feeling overwhelmed, I’ll start out with a section that’s just for you.

Books

Crypto History

  • Digital Gold (story of Bitcoin)
  • The Infinite Machine (story of Ethereum)
  • The Book of Satoshi

Crypto Economics

  • The Bitcoin Standard
  • Layered Money
  • The Price of Tomorrow
  • Cryptoassets
  • This Book Will Save You Time

Technical

  • Grokking Bitcoin
  • Mastering Bitcoin
  • Mastering Ethereum
  • Programming Bitcoin
  • Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
  • Smart Custody

General Concepts

  • The Internet of Money (3 volumes)
  • The Little Bitcoin Book
  • Blockchain Bubble or Revolution
  • Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains
  • Cryptoassets guide for investment professionals (pdf)
  • How to DeFi

Binance Research

Courses

  • Saylor Academy Bitcoin for Everybody

Crypto Twitter

  • My Crypto list

Crypto Prices and Exchange Liquidity

  • Coinmarketcap

Exchanges

  • Coinbase
  • Binance
  • Bitpanda
  • Bitwala
  • Kraken
  • Localbitcoins
  • Comparison of many platforms

Leveraged Trading Platforms

  • Bitfinex
  • Bitmex
  • Exmo
  • CEX
  • Fulrum

Decentralized Exchanges

  • Uniswap
  • 0X
  • Bisq

Crypto Borrowing & Lending

  • BlockFi
  • YouHodler

See my post on the best crypto interest accounts and lending platforms.

Important Websites

  • Bitcoin.org
  • Ethereum Project
  • Nakamoto Institute

Ethereum

  • Gas Prices

Lightning Network

  • Lightning Network official page
  • Breez
  • Lightning Labs
  • Lightning information

Crypto News & Blogs

  • Cryptoheadlines – Crypto news aggregator
  • Dailycoin – Your daily crypto guide
  • Advancing Bitcoin Blog

Resource Websites

  • The Case for Bitcoin
  • Keepitsimple Bitcoin
  • UpFolio’s Crypto Guides

Inheritance

  • Crypto inheritance guides

Cryptocurrency Hedge and VC Funds

  • 1confirmation
  • A16z
  • Alameda Research
  • Arrington XRP Capital
  • Binance Labs
  • Bitwise index fund
  • Blockchain Capital
  • BoostVC
  • CMS Holdings
  • Coinbase Ventures
  • Coinfund
  • DeFiance Capital
  • Digital Currency Group
  • Dragonfly Capital
  • Electric Capital
  • Fabric Ventures
  • Framework Ventures
  • Fenbushi Capital
  • Galaxy Digital
  • Grayscale
  • Hashkey Capital
  • Huobi Capital/Exchange
  • Kinetic Capital
  • LedgerPrime Capital
  • Multicoin Capital
  • Pantera Capital
  • ParaFi Capital
  • Paradigm
  • Placeholder Ventures
  • Polychain Capital
  • Three Arrows Capital
  • Union Square Ventures
  • Winklevoss Capital
  • Crypto fund costs

Crypto Tax Calculators

  • Cointracker
  • Cryptotrader
  • Cointracking
  • Taxbit

Crypto Custodians

  • BitGo Custody
  • Vo1t
  • Gemini Custody
  • Bitcoin Suisse Vault
  • Coinbase Custody
  • Fidelity Custody
  • Bakkt
  • itBit
  • Knox Custody
  • Kingdom Trust
  • Onchain Custodian
  • Copper
  • Unchained Capital (collaborative custody)
  • Casa (collaborative custody) – see docs too
  • Sygnum Bank

You can also check the custodian comparison site for further options.

Crypto-Friendly Banks in Europe

  • Bankera (an EMI with a shady past – use only as a last resort)

News Sites (Spanish)

  • El Bitcoin

Newsletters

  • Bravenewcoin
  • Cryptocompare

Portfolio Managers

  • Cointracker
  • Excel sheet

Consultancy

  • Jakub from Finematics
  • Ministry of Nodes

Run Your Own Node

  • Umbrel
  • RaspiBlitz
  • RoninDojo
  • MyNode
  • Feature Comparison

Inheritance Solutions

  • Casa Inheritance

APIs

  • Nomics
  • Whale Alert

Wallets

  • Mobile wallet – Exodus
  • Mobile wallet – Argent (for DeFi)
  • Mobile wallet – MyCelium (Android)
  • Hardware wallet – Ledger Nano X
  • Hardware wallet – Trezor Model T
  • Wallet Scrutiny

Read my article about hot wallets too.

The Software wallet comparison compiled by Veriphi is a very good additional resource if you’re not sure what to go for.

Price Alerts

  • TargetMoon (10 free alerts)
  • Coindera (free for email alert, paid for SMS alerts)
  • Coinmarketalert
  • Coinwink
  • Cryptoloom

ICOs

  • ICO Stats and performance
  • ICO Calendar
  • Valuing crypto tokens
  • Useless Ethereum Token

Earn Bitcoin

  • Microlancer

Bitcoin Art

  • Lucho Poletti

Stats and Analytics

  • Santiment
  • Clarkmoody’s dashboard
  • Mempool space
  • Mempool observer
  • Transaction stats
  • Bytetree Terminal
  • Currencies used to trade Bitcoin
  • Barchart Crypto
  • Bitinfocharts Crypto
  • Intotheblock
  • Defi pulse
  • Coin.dance
  • Bitcoin treasuries – Bitcoin treasuries in public companies
  • Statoshi – node stats
  • Howmanyconfs

Block Explorers

  • Blockstream
  • OXT
  • KYCP
  • Sochain

Accepting Bitcoin Payments

  • BTCPay
  • Bitpay
  • GoCrypto

Debit Cards

  • Wirex
  • Cryptopay
  • Uquid
  • Spectro

Charts

  • Bitcoinvisuals – many Bitcoin charts under one roof – especially technical related.
  • Moonstats
  • Cryptowatch
  • Bitcoincharts
  • Tradingview
  • Wallminer
  • Tradinglite
  • Metatrader

Bitcoin ATMs

  • FindBitcoinATM

Domain Registrars

  • Unstoppable domains
  • Ethereum Name Service

Trading Courses

  • Technical Analysis for Cryptocurrencies
  • Entries and Exits

Podcasts

  • What Bitcoin Did
  • The Pomp
  • Stephan Livera Podcast
  • The Flippening
  • Unchained
  • The Breakdown
  • Base Layer
  • The Delphi Podcast
  • Untold Stories
  • Epicenter
  • Let’s Talk Bitcoin
  • Epicenter
  • The Bitcoin Game
  • Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast
  • The Gift of Bitcoin – excellent for beginners

YouTube Channels

  • Andreas Antonopoulos – Fundamentals and Technical
  • DataDash – Trading
  • Technical Roundup – Trading
  • Off Chain with Jimmy Song – Bitcoin

Research

  • The Block Crypto
  • Arcane Research
  • Delphi Digital
  • Bitwise Investments
  • Consensys

DeFi

  • Fast DeFi tutorial
  • Bankless
  • DeFi Pulse
  • DeFi Rate
  • DeFi Dad
  • The Daily Gwei
  • DeFi Weekly
  • The Defiant
  • Pools.fyi – Top Liquidity Pools
  • DAPP Radar

DeFi Aggregators

  • Zerion
  • Matcha
  • Harvest
  • Zapper

White Papers

  • Bitcoin white paper
  • Ethereum white paper

Trading Bots and Automation

  • Coinrule
  • Shrimpy
  • 3Commas
  • Zenbot
  • Gekko
  • Kryll
  • Gunbot
  • Cryptohopper
  • Tradesanta
  • Zignaly
  • Mudrex
  • ExchangeValet

Forums

  • BitcoinTalk
  • Reddit
  • Forobits (Spanish)

Privacy

  • Hodl Privacy FAQ
  • Bitcoin-only

Mining Pools

  • F2Pool

Deals

  • Bitcoinblackfriday

Bitcoin-only sites

  • Bitcoin Q n A
  • Keep it Simple Bitcoin
  • Casebitcoin
  • 10 hours of Bitcoin
  • Bitcoin Only
  • Bitcoiner Guide
  • Bitcoinwallet guide
  • Bitcoin node guide
  • Bitcoin intro
  • Bitcoin optech
  • Bitcoin devlist
  • 21ism – bitcoin inspired creativity
  • We run Bitcoin
  • Lopp’s bitcoin information and resources
  • Advancing Bitcoin
  • 10X security guide
  • Wallets recovery

Telegram Groups

  • No Bullshit Bitcoin

Articles

  • What is Cryptocurrency?
  • Money, Blockchains and Social Scalability by Nick Szabo
  • A Beginner’s Guide to Ethereum
  • What is Ethereum? A step-by-step guide
  • Fat Protocols
  • Why Bitcoin Matters
  • Privacy coins; how they work and why they’re needed
  • Why HODL not HOLD

More Resource Lists

  • Bitcoin Only
  • Jameson Lopp’s list
  • GitHub List

Any other resources I forgot to mention?

Filed under: Cryptoassets, Money

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Jean Galea is a dad, amateur padel player, host of the Mastermind.fm podcast, investor and entrepreneur.

Comments

  1. moses brodin says

    July 17, 2020 at 1:02 pm

    “An impressive share! I have just forwarded this onto a coworker who had been doing a little
    homework on this. And he actually ordered me dinner simply because
    I found it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this….
    Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending some time to discuss
    this topic here on your blog.”

    Reply
  2. dx says

    January 22, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    Would be careful about recommending hardware wallets from Amazon.. can be tampered with

    Also, I’m surprised you didn’t mention Exodus wallet, it’s really nice

    https://www.exodus.io/

    Reply
    • Jean Galea says

      March 30, 2021 at 12:44 pm

      Exodus is a great wallet although unfortunately not open-source. Bluewallet is better for Bitcoiners.

      Reply
  3. James Bayley says

    March 29, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    Great article. Readers might also find https://cryptostar.money useful. It is a classified directory of over 7000 crypto businesses and supports user reviews.

    Reply
  4. Maksym says

    May 15, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    https://cryptodiffer.com/
    Aggregator of ratings of TOP ICO Experts. Cryptodiffer team has found a new way of summarising information in user-friendly and concise way

    Reply
  5. Laura says

    March 2, 2018 at 4:15 pm

    One more useful tool for traders – crypto simulator >> http://bitcoinflipapp.com

    Reply
  6. Crypto ICO Alert says

    January 31, 2018 at 8:04 am

    Upcoming ICOs, CryptoICOalert is the most inclusive list of the top Initial Coin Offerings token sales. Our ICO analysis reports give the insight of cryptocurrency ICOs.

    Reply
  7. Dave says

    August 22, 2017 at 7:32 pm

    Another very useful resource for traders and investors is Cryptomon (https://cryptomon.io) – AI powered price predictions for Bitcoin, Litecoin and more…

    Reply

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