Bitcoin notes

References on bitcoin and blockchain:

Recommended

• WATCH - Cryptocurrencies: the ideas behind the hype, Arvind Narayanan - Princeton - July 21, 2016. at NSF. You need to register your email address before you can watch the presentation.

• Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering, Nathaniel Popper, The New York Times, June 23, 2017

Textbook

• https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/02/09/the-princeton-bitcoin-textbook-is-now-freely-available/

Notes

• https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/ — Print your own paper wallets (on holographic paper!)
• https://bitpay.com/ — it's like Paypal, but for bitcoin.
• http://piperwallet.com/— Piper, a paper wallet generator
• http://www.coindesk.com/ — News Site, with current BTC price.
• https://www.bitaddress.org/ — Generate your own bitcoin wallet with JavaScript. Ask me *why this is a bad idea*.
• https://blockchain.info/ — Monitor the Blockchain...

Cold Storage

• https://www.weusecoins.com/bitcoin-cold-storage-guide/
• http://bitcoinist.net/piperwallet-bitcoin-paper-wallet-printer-available-exclusively-purse-merchants/ — Nice display of cold wallet printers
• Standalone Bitcoin Offline Wallet Printer Demo, by Steven Pearson

Litecoin

A crypto-currency like Bitcoin, but different

• https://litecoin.org/