Blockchain Leashed

This is a humble attempt to understand blockchain.

Get started

To get a rough idea about what blockchain is, these are the best (clear, comprehensive, sound and complete) resources I found:

  1. This video by Xavier Decuyper. Watch also his other videos about the topic
  2. This video by the Center for International Governance Innovation
  3. This video by sh0k0nes
  4. This demo (part 1 and part 2) by Anders Brownworth
  5. An interesting post by Dhruv Bansal focusing on the interdisciplinarity of the blockchain
  6. The Medium posts of Jimi Sinnige, starting from How does blockchain work in 7 steps

Dig deeper

These are the best papers I found on the topic:

  1. The original white paper proposing Bitcoin, the first and main blockchain application
  2. The truth about blockchain by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani appeared in Harvard Business Review
  3. Blockchain beyond bitcoin by Sarah Underwood appeared in Communications of the ACM
  4. Blockchain Technology Overview, an internal report of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
  5. The MIT blockchain page is an authoritative hub for the latest research and articles on blockchain with a focus on economics.
  6. A presentation about the interdisciplinarity of blockchain

Code it!

Since you do not really master a topic until either you can explain it to your old mother or you can code it, here you can learn how to program a simple blockchain:

  1. This tutorial by Xavier Decuyper implements a blockchain in JavaScript
  2. Here is a second one by Massimo Franceschet in R
  3. And yet another one by Daniel van Flymen in Python