Crypto Research Materials

Making sense of crypto, one resource at a time. Essential reading and research on blockchain fundamentals, market dynamics, and emerging trends in digital assets.

Podcasts

• Naval | Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1

• Naval | Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #606: Balaji S. Srinivasan — The Network State and How to Start a New Country

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #547: Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #542: Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #504: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant)

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #473: Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #627: Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase — The Art of Relentless Focus, Preparing for Full-Contact Entrepreneurship, Critical Forks in the Path, Handling Haters, The Wisdom of Paul Graham, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and Much More

• We Study Billionaires | BTC005: Bitcoin & Michael Saylor - A Masterclass in Economic Calculation

• We Study Billionaires | BTC074: Bitcoin is Property w/ Eric Weiss

• Millennial Investing | MI176: A Masterclass on Bitcoin Self-Custody w/ Tyler Campbell

• The Pomp Podcast | #749 This Bitcoin Conversation Blew My Mind w/ Jason Lowery

• Lex Fridman Podcast | #307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

• Lex Fridman Podcast | #188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

• Lex Fridman Podcast | #173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

• Lex Fridman Podcast | #171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

• Bankless | #90 - 5 Mental Models for Web3 | Chris Dixon

• Bankless | #120 - Reinventing the Internet | Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of a16z

• What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack | #WBD529: The Role of Bitcoin Maximalism with Udi Wertheimer

• Decypher | Ep 16 - "I Want to Be the Best Crypto Investor in the World" - Santiago Santos

• Decypher | Ep 15 - From College Dropout to Crypto Megafund Manager: Haseeb Qureshi - Dragonfly Capital

Reading

• Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto

• The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

• The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth

• Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy by Melanie Swan

• Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Is Changing the World by Don Tapscott

• Bank to the Future by Simon Dixon

• Bitcoin’s Energy Usage Isn’t a Problem. Here’s Why. by Lyn Alden

• Crypto VC portfolio construction: the LP's perspective by The Block

Videos

• Peter Van Valkenburg explains Bitcoin

Twitter Account Lists

• Crypto

• NFTs

• Memes

Twitter Accounts

• Preston Pysh (@PrestonPysh)

• Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano (@APompliano)

• Jeff Dorman, CFA (@jdorman81)

• Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact)

• Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis)

• Jack Mallers (@jackmallers)

• Kathryn Haun (@katie_haun)

• Michael Saylor (@saylor)

• Chris Dixon (@Cdixon)

• 6529 (@punk6529)

• Nick Hotz (@Nick_Hotz)

Tweets

• Collected web3 twitter threads (@cdixon)

• The Tim Ferriss Show #542 featuring @cdixon @naval: A visual summary (@drex_jpg)

• Crypto vs blockchain vs web3 (@richerd)

• Bitcoin is too complicated… Ok, explain me fiat money. (@visbitcoin)

• Plan B's S2F and S2FX articles (@100trillionUSD)

• In web2, you are just borrowing things — until the actual owners change their mind. (@cdixon)

• The promise of web3 in the latest issue of The Economist (@cdixon)

Education

• a16z's Crypto Startup School

• Certified Crypto Finance Expert

• ​Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme

Associations

• Crypto Valley Association

• MAMA

• Bitcoin Association Switzerland

News Platforms

• Decrypt

• CoinDesk

• Crypto Banter

• Cointelegraph

• Bitcoin Magazine

• CryptoFund.News

• Blockworks

• A16Z Future

• The Block Crypto

Custody

• Unchained Capital

• Trezor

• Ledger

• Keys.Casa

• MetaMask

• Coinbase Wallet

• MyEtherWallet

Services / Tools

• Arkham

• BlockSpaces

• Crypto Fees

• Mirror.xyz

• Unstoppable Domains

• Ultra Sound Money

• ENS Domains

• Open-Orgs.info

• Rarity.tools

• L2BEAT

Do your own research. No investment/tax/legal advice. Disclaimer here.