Introduction To Cryptocurrency
A free course on cryptocurrencies for developers. Covers history, cryptographic foundations, networking, consensus, game theory, Bitcoin, Ethereum.
Haseeb Qureshi
Managing partner at Dragonfly Capital. Formerly: partner at Metastable Capital, software engineer at Airbnb and Earn.com. Effective altruist, writer, educator.
Bitcoin's P2P Network
Bitcoin's P2P network comes with its own unique challenges: bootstrapping your initial peers, defending against spam, and ensuring network-level privacy.
Gnutella: an Intro to Gossip
Gnutella was one of the first decentralized P2P protocols to take off after the death of Napster. It's a direct predecessor to Bitcoin's networking design.
P2P Networking
Bitcoin is built atop the shoulders of the early P2P file sharing protocols. And the history of P2P file sharing starts with the grandfather of all massive P2P protocols, Napster.
Public-Key Cryptography
Without public key cryptography, Bitcoin would be impossible. It lays the foundation for digital identities and cryptographically enforced property rights.