Practical articles about digital assets, blockchain, the Metaverse and AI by subject (Updated June 2023)
A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System that provides a system for transactions without the need for a trusted intermediary and solves the double-spend dilemma
📖 The Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto (2008)
📖 Why I Invested in Bitcoin by Chamath Palihapitiya (2013)
📖 Why Bitcoin Matters by Marc Andreessen (2014)
📖 How Bitcoin Works: A Guide for the Digitally Perplexed, by Richard Bondi (2014)
📖 Blockchain explained by Zack Church (2017)
📖 What is bitcoin mining and how does it work
A programable blockchain powering the world decentralized computer network
📖 The Ethereum Whitepaper by Vitalik Buterin
📖 What is Ethereum and How Does it Work? Michelle Rama-Poccia (2018)
📖 Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Markets by Nick Szabo (1996)
📖 What is Proof of Stake by Everett Muzzy (2020)
📖 Ethereum Gas Explained by William Peaster (2020)
📖 What Are Decentralized Applications (dApps)? Hackernoon (2018)
Blockchain-based financial applications that do not rely on a centralized authority and use smart contracts to facilitate transactions
📖 A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Sid Coelho-Prabhu (2020)
📖 Why ‘DeFi’ Utopia Would Be Finance Without Financiers: QuickTake, Olga Kharif (2020)
📖 Why Everyone In Crypto Is Talking About DeFi, Jeff Kauflin (2019)
📖 DeFi Beyond the Hype The Emerging World of Decentralized Finance, Wharton (2021)
Digital assets programmed to track the value of another asset
📖 Beginner’s Guide to Stablecoins by Brian Nibley (2021)
📖 What is the Point of a Stablecoin? (A Simple Explanation) by Grant Bartel
📖 Understanding the Three Types of Stablecoins by Cole Kennellly (2018)
📖 What Are Stablecoins and How Can I Invest in Them? By Paulina Kikos (2021)
📖 Is Stablecoin the Next Big Thing in E-Commerce by Marco Di Maggio (2020)
A digital representation of a sovereign currency that is a liability of the central bank and facilitates interbank or retail transaction through on a digital network
📖 Digital Dollar Digest: What Is a CBDC?, ICBA
📖 The Case for Central Bank Digital Currencies, Cato Institute (2021)
📖 Digital Cash: Why Central Banks Should Start Issuing Electronic Money, Positive Money (2021)
📖 Central Bank Digital Currencies, Bank for International Settlements (2018)
📖 Central Bank Digital Currencies: Back to the Future, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2021)
📖 Central Bank Digital Currencies: Is it a Good Idea?, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Blockchain managed, digital asset representing a real-world object
📖 ERC 721 Non-Fungible Token Standard
📖 The History of Non-Fungible Tokens by Andrew Steinwold (2019)
📖 A Beginner’s Guide to NFTS by Linda Xie (2021)
📖 NFTs make the internet ownable by Jesse Walden (2021)
📖 What Critics Don’t Understand About NFTs by Jonathan Zittrain (2021)
A virtual reality ecosystem encompassing interconnected digital worlds, allowing users to interact with each other and digital content in real-time
📖 The Metaverse Primer, by Matt Ball (2021)
📖 What is it? Do I want to go? The metaverse explained, FT Magazine (2023)
📖 Big Tech wants to build the ‘metaverse.’ What on Earth does that mean?, by Dalvin Brown (2021)
📖 What Is the Metaverse, Exactly?, by Charlotte Hilton Andersen (2023)
📖 The Metaverse Has Already Arrived. Here’s What That Actually Means, by Peter Allen Cark (2021)
Intelligence exhibited by machines through computational algorithms
📖 What is AI? / Basic Questions, by John McCarthy (Stanford University)
📖 AI, by Sam Altman (2014)
📖 The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence, by Tim Urban (2015)
📖 What is AI?, McKinsey & Company (2023)
📖 The Age of AI has begun, by Bill Gates (2023)
Here is a list of my favorite books on these topics
Books on the history of bitcoin and ethereum
📖 Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires, by Nathaniel Popper (2016)
📖 How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance, by Brian Eha (2017)
📖 Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption, by Ben Mezrich (2019)
📖 The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum, by Camila Russo (2020)
📖 Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It, by Matthew Leising (2020)
📖 Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street, by Jeff John Roberts (2020)
Books explaining bitcoin and the use money
📖 Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, Engineering and Economics, by Pedro Franco (2014)
📖 The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order, by Paul Vigna (2016)
📖 The Internet of Money: A collection of talks, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, volume 1 (2016), volume 2 (2017), volume 3 (2019) by Andreas Antonopoulos
📖 Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond, by Chris Burniske (2017)
📖 The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, by Saifedean Ammous (2018)
📖 The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future, by Bitcoin Collective (2019)
Books describing the development and uses for blockchain technology
📖 Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World, by Don Tapscott (2016)
📖 Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, by George Gilder (2018)
📖 The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, by Michael Casey (2019)
Literary works that created the idea of a metaverse
📖 Snow Crash, by Neal Stephensen (1992)
📖 Ready Player One (and Two), by Ernest Cline (2011 and 2022)
📖 Sword Art Online, by Reki Kawahara (2014)
Books defining frameworks and opportunities in metaverse ecosystems
📖 Metaverse Dream, by Gregory Landegger and Paul Dawalibi (2023)
📖 The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, by Matthew Ball (2022)
📖 Into the Metaverse: The Essential Guide to the Business Opportunities of the Web3 Era, by Cathy Hackl (2023)
📖 The Metaverse Handbook: Innovating for the Internet's Next Tectonic Shift, by QuHarrison Terry and Scott Keeney (2022)
Books explaining how AI works and use it can be used in the future
📖 You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place, by Janelle Shane (2021)
📖 AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan (2021)
📖 Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, by Nick Bostrom (2016)
📖 The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher (2021)