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
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
Courses
Crypto Twitter
Crypto Prices and Exchange Liquidity
Exchanges
Leveraged Trading Platforms
Decentralized Exchanges
Crypto Borrowing & Lending
See my post on the best crypto interest accounts and lending platforms.
Important Websites
Ethereum
Lightning Network
Crypto News & Blogs
- Cryptoheadlines – Crypto news aggregator
- Dailycoin – Your daily crypto guide
- Advancing Bitcoin Blog
Resource Websites
Inheritance
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
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)
Newsletters
Portfolio Managers
Consultancy
Run Your Own Node
Inheritance Solutions
APIs
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
Earn Bitcoin
Bitcoin Art
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
Accepting Bitcoin Payments
Debit Cards
Charts
- Bitcoinvisuals – many Bitcoin charts under one roof – especially technical related.
- Moonstats
- Cryptowatch
- Bitcoincharts
- Tradingview
- Wallminer
- Tradinglite
- Metatrader
Bitcoin ATMs
Domain Registrars
Trading Courses
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
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
White Papers
Trading Bots and Automation
- Coinrule
- Shrimpy
- 3Commas
- Zenbot
- Gekko
- Kryll
- Gunbot
- Cryptohopper
- Tradesanta
- Zignaly
- Mudrex
- ExchangeValet
Forums
- BitcoinTalk
- Forobits (Spanish)
Privacy
Mining Pools
Deals
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
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
Any other resources I forgot to mention?
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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/
Exodus is a great wallet although unfortunately not open-source. Bluewallet is better for Bitcoiners.
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