Historical archive
Educational Links
Curated reference links from the early BitcoinWallets.com collection. Research papers, monetary history, and foundational concepts. Links open in a new tab.
Non-profit research
- Brito-Castillo: [Dec 2013] Bitcoin
- Coin Center: [Dec 2014] What is Bitcoin Mining
- Coin Center: [Jan 2015] Bitcoin
- Coin Center: [Jan 2015] Is Bitcoin Regulated
- Coin Center: [Jan 2015] What is Multi-Sig
- Coin Center: [March 2016] Control Customer Bitcoins
- Coin Center: [Jan 2017] What does Permissionless Mean
- Coin Center: [April 2017] What's a Blockchain
- Coin Center: [Oct 2017] What is Open Source
- Coin Center: [July 2019] What is Cryptocurrency
- Coin Center: [Feb 2019] The Case For Electronic Cash
Corporate & institutional research
- Ark-Invest: [Jan 2017] Bitcoin Asset Class
- Ark-Invest: [March 2020] Bitcoin Mining
- Miller: [Sept 2015] The Value Investor's
- Miller: [Nov 2017] New Things. Old Thinking.
- Adamant: [Nov 2015] How to Position
- Xapo: [June 2017] Why Own Bitcoin
- Fidelity: [Oct 2018] A Terminology Primer
- Fidelity: [Oct 2018] The Evolution of Digital Cash
- Fidelity: [Oct 2018] Custody: Digital Assets
- Fidelity: [Aug 2020] Bitcoin Investment Thesis
- Grayscale: [July 2019] Bitcoin Investor Study
- Grayscale: [Oct 2019] An Introduction to Bitcoin
- Grayscale: [Dec 2019] Investing in Bitcoin
- Grayscale: [April 2020] Bitcoin Tightening
- Grayscale: [Aug 2020] Valuing Bitcoin
- Barta-Murphy: [Nov 2017] Understanding Bitcoin
- Blockchain: [June 2019] Investment Thesis
- VanEck: [Jan 2020] The Investment Case for Bitcoin
- Kraken: [March 2020] Inheriting USD's
- Bitwise: [May 2020] The Case for Bitcoin
- CoinShares: [Aug 2020] A Little Bitcoin Goes A Long Way
- Coinbase: [Aug 2016] Change The World
- Coinbase: [Jan 2017] Controlling Your Own Money
- Coinbase: [Oct 2019] Bitcoin, 11 Years & Counting
- Coinbase: [Jan 2020] Cryptocurrency in the 2020's
- Coinbase: [May 2020] What is the Bitcoin Halving
- Galaxy Digital: [March 2019] On Sound Money
- Galaxy Digital: [June 2019] MPT Case for Bitcoin
- Octonomics: [Feb 2020] Bitcoin is Not a Security
- Poolin: [May 2020] Bitcoin: Comparing Hashrate
- Paul Tudor Jones: [May 2020] Bitcoin
- Winklevoss: [Aug 2020] The Case for $500K
- CBInsights: [? 2020] The Blockchain Report
Foundational concepts
Internet
Internet Protocol
World Wide Web
Coincidence of Wants
Lindy Effect
Moore's Law
Metcalfe's Law
Double-Spending
Byzantine Fault
Proof of Work
Cryptographic Hash Function
SHA-2 / SHA-256
Public-Key Cryptography
Peer-to-Peer
Cypherpunk
Money
Fiat Money
Gold Standard
Gresham's Law
Quantitative Easing
Fractional Reserve Banking
Inflation
History of Money
Monetary history highlights
Metals & elements
Currency & money
Money, war & freedom
Pre-Bitcoin era
- Menger: [Feb 1892] On the Origins of Money
- Chaum: [Feb 1981] Untraceable Electronic Mail
- Chaum: [Feb 1989] Wiki: DigiCash
- Zimmerman: [Dec 1991] Why I Wrote PGP
- Finney: [Nov 1992] Why remailers...
- Finney: [Dec 1993] Digital Cash & Privacy
- Wired: [Jan 1994] E-money
- Hoppe: [Dec 1994] How is Fiat Money Possible
- GSR: [Sept 1996] E-GOLD
- Back: [March 1997] Hashcash
- Szabo: [Dec 1997] The God Protocols
- Wei Dai: [Nov 1998] b-money
- Szabo: [June 2002] Shelling out: The Origins of Money
- Szabo: [Dec 2008] Bit gold
Early Bitcoin coverage (2010–2012)
- LWN: [Nov 2010] Bitcoin: Virtual Money
- Irish Times: [Nov 2010] Wallet Full of Bitcoins
- PC World: [Dec 2010] New Virtual Currency
- Microsoft: [Jan 2011] On Bitcoin and Red Balloons
- EFF: [Jan 2011] Bitcoin: Censorship-Resistant
- TIME: [April 2011] Bitcoin Could Challenge
- Forbes: [April 2011] Bitcoin: Crypto Currency
- MIT: [May 2011] What Bitcoin Is
- Ars Technica: [June 2011] Bitcoin
- BBC: [June 2011] Bitcoin Will Recover From Crash
- New Yorker: [Oct 2011] The Crypto-Currency
- BBC: [Oct 2012] Brave New World
- BBC: [Nov 2012] Bitcoin: Digital Money Miners
2013 coverage
2014–2017 coverage
2018–2019 coverage
- Dixon: [Feb 2018] Why Decentralization Matters
- Vijay: [March 2018] The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- ICE CEO: [April 2018] Bitcoin: Trend We Can't Ignore
- Balaji: [May 2018] What Has The Blockchain
- FN: [July 2018] BlackRock Explores Bitcoin
- Plan B: [March 2019] Modeling Bitcoin Value
- Forbes: [May 2019] Microsoft + Bitcoin Blockchain
- Wired: [May 2019] Microsoft: Identity on Bitcoin
- CoinDesk: [May 2019] Microsoft DID on Bitcoin
- Microsoft: [May 2019] ION via Bitcoin Blockchain
- Carter: [July 2019] It's the Settlement Assurances
- Bloomberg: [Dec 2019] Bitcoin: 9,000,000% Rise
- CNN: [Dec 2019] Bitcoin: Asset of the Decade
2020 coverage
- Plan B: [Jan 2020] Efficient Market Hypothesis
- NASDAQ: [Feb 2020] Bitcoin Blockchain in Space
- BitMEX: [March 2020] Inflation is Coming
- Plan B: [March 2020] Bitcoin: Stock-To-Flow
- CNBC: [May 2020] Bitcoin: A Store of Value
- CNBC: [May 2020] Bitcoin: Inflation Hedge
- Fidelity: [May 2020] Institutional Investor Study
- Bloomberg: [May 2020] JP Morgan + Bitcoin Exchanges
- Forbes: [May 2020] JP Morgan + Bitcoin Exchanges
- WSJ: [May 2020] JP Morgan + Bitcoin Exchanges
- VISA: [June 2020] Digital Currency Wallets
- OCC: [July 2020] Banks Authorized to Custody Bitcoin
- Forbes: [Aug 2020] Fidelity Launches Bitcoin Fund
- MicroStrategy: [Aug 2020] Bitcoin: Reserve Asset
- PR: [Aug 2020] MicroStrategy: Adopts Bitcoin, $250M
- FM: [Aug 2020] MSTR: Shares Jump with $250M Bitcoin
- Fortune: [Aug 2020] MicroStrategy: $250 Million Purchase
Microsoft research
- Microsoft: [April 1980] Reaching Agreement
- Microsoft: [July 1982] Byzantine Generals Problem
- Microsoft: [Nov 2013] Bitcoin: Elliptic Curve
- Microsoft: [Aug 2014] How to Use Bitcoin to Design
- Microsoft: [Nov 2014] Use Bitcoin to Incentivize
- Microsoft: [May 2015] Bitcoin Mining Pools
- Microsoft: [May 2018] Bitcoin: Economic Analysis
- Microsoft: Cryptography and Privacy Research
European Central Bank
Bank of England
Federal Reserve
- FED: [Dec 2013] Bitcoin: A Primer
- FED: [Jan 2014] CHART: Bitcoin / USD
- FED: [March 2014] Bitcoin and Beyond
- FED: [Sept 2014] Bitcoin as Money
- FED: [Oct 2014] Bitcoin: Background
- FED: [Feb 2016] Banking Bitcoin Businesses
- FED: [Jan 2018] Bitcoin: A Short Intro
- FED: [March 2018] Bitcoin: Money or...
- FED: [April 2018] Bitcoin vs Buck
- FED: [April 2018] CB Electronic Money
- FED: [July 2018] The Era of Bitcoin
- FED: [Aug 2018] Bitcoin: Alternative Money
- FED: [Aug 2018] Blockchain, Crypto...
- FED: [Jan 2019] Bitcoin: Whither the Price
Visionaries
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