Below is a curated reading list of crypto-related articles, originally copied from Dan Romero’s blog. The titles were mostly in English — I’ve translated them into Chinese in the original post. Recommended to be read in chronological order:
2008
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System — Where it all began. The Bitcoin whitepaper, written by someone under the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto.”
2011
- Bitcoin — by Fred Wilson
2013
- Coinbase — by Chris Dixon
- Why I’m Interested in Bitcoin — by Chris Dixon
2014
- Why Bitcoin Matters — by Marc Andreessen
2016
- Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency — by Fred Ehrsam
- Fat Protocols — by Joel Monegro
2017
- Value of the Token Model — by Fred Ehrsam
- A Beginner’s Guide to Ethereum — by Linda Xie
- The Meaning of Decentralization — by Vitalik Buterin
- Thoughts on Tokens — by Balaji Srinivasan
- Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design — by Chris Dixon
- Analyzing Token Sale Models — by Vitalik Buterin
- Cryptocurrency’s Netscape Moment — by Elad Gil
- Permissionless — by Alok Vasudev
- The Slow Death of the Firm — by Nick Tomaino
- Big Banks and Blockchain — by Elad Gil
2018
- Why Decentralization Matters — by Chris Dixon
- And What Has the Blockchain Ever Done for Us? — by Balaji Srinivasan
- Stablecoins: Designing a Price-Stable Cryptocurrency — by Haseeb Qureshi
2019
- Yes, You May Need a Blockchain — by Balaji Srinivasan
- The Future of Decentralized Finance — by Linda Xie
- The Pseudonymous Economy — by Balaji Srinivasan
2020
- Credible Neutrality as a Guiding Principle — by Vitalik Buterin
- A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) — by Sid Coelho-Prabhu
- The Ownership Economy — by Jesse Walden
- Bitcoin for the Open Minded Skeptic — by Matt Huang
- Creators, Communities, and Crypto — by Fred Ehrsam
- What Explains the Rise of AMMs? — by Haseeb Qureshi
- Ethereum Is a Dark Forest — by Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos
2021
- Surviving Crypto Cycles — by Fred Ehrsam
- The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse — by Packy McCormick
- MEV and Me — by Charlie Noyes
- NFTs Make the Internet Ownable — by Jesse Walden
- NFTs and a Thousand True Fans — by Chris Dixon
- A Beginner’s Guide to DAOs — by Linda Xie
- The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy — by Vitalik Buterin
- The Great Online Game — by Packy McCormick
- India and Crypto — by Balaji Srinivasan
- Own the Internet — by Packy McCormick
- Why Web3 Matters — by Chris Dixon
- Composability Is Innovation — by Linda Xie
- The Strongest Crypto Gaming Thesis — by gubsheep
- Endgame — by Vitalik Buterin
- Trading the Metagame — by Cobie
- The Mirrortable — by Balaji Srinivasan
- Bitcoin Explained in Plain Language: How It Works — by Zhang Yang
2022
- 2021 NFT Annual Review — by 1confirmation
- Soulbound — by Vitalik Buterin
- Hyperstructures — by Jacob Horne
- Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks — by Varun Srinivasan
2023
- Ten Coins to Rule Them All — by Wang Yishi