EthList: The Crowdsourced Ethereum Reading List

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Contributors: Kingsong Chen (Scanate), Robert Hackett (Fortune Magazine), Jorge Izquierdo and Luis Cuende (Aragon), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Maksim Balashevich (Santiment), Michal Brazewicz (Status), Nate Rush, Krishna Aradhi, Justin Poirier, Griff Green (Giveth.io), Eeks, Anonymous

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| Introduction | Getting Started | Ecosystem | Thought Pieces | Trading | Programming | Legal | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- |

Introduction

Simple explanations of Ethereum

[ ] Blockchain Demo - Visual demonstration of blockchain technologies
[ ] Minimal Blockchain Learning Hands-on CLI
[ ] Coin Demo - Visual demonstration of cryptocurrency technologies
[ ] Visual demonstration of a blockchain
[ ] Ethereum the world computer (video)
[ ] Vitalik Buterin explains Ethereum (video)
[ ] Joseph Lubin's interview on building decentralized applications (video)
[ ] BBC explains Ethereum (video)
[ ] Techcrunch on Ethereum (video)
[ ] What is Ethereum?
[ ] ELI5: What is Ethereum?
[ ] Ethereum: The not-Bitcoin cryptocurrency that could help replace Uber
[ ] Introduction to Ethereum: The Internet’s Government
[ ] A beginner’s guide to Ethereum
[ ] What is Ethereum?
[ ] Just enough Bitcoin for Ethereum
[ ] Ethereum: Bitcoin Plus Everything
[ ] An Introduction to Ethereum and Smart Contracts: a Programmable Blockchain
[ ] A Very Non-technical Explanation of Ethereum (aka Yet Another Ethereum Explanation)
[ ] WTF is Ethereum?
[ ] Super Beginner's Guide to Ethereum
[ ] Blockchain: The New Technology of Trust
[ ] Ethereum for Web Developers

Deeper explanations of Ethereum

[ ] How does Ethereum work anyway?
[ ] Minimum Viable Blockchain
General White Paper, Technical Yellow Paper (pdf)
[ ] Programmable Blockchains in context: Ethereum
[ ] Ethereum: Platform Overview
[ ] Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum introduction at Devcon 1 (video)
[ ] Thinking outside the Blocks
[ ] Understanding Ethereum Report (PDF)
[ ] Very deep-dive on Ethereum Reading List
[ ] Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact
[ ] Full Ethereum Syllabus with Detailed Summaries and Resources
[ ] "Proof-of-Stake: Demystifying the Decentralization Debates". https://medium.com/@ayomide27victor/proof-of-stake-pos-demystifying-the-decentralization-debates-5aed602a4265

History Articles:

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The annual Ethereum Developer Conference (Devcon):

List of protocol updates and hard-forks:

Olympic pre-release (Testnet, Chain #0 - May 9, 2015)

- [ ] Blog post

Frontier public release (Ethereum Genesis, Chain #1 - July 30, 2015)

- [ ] Blog post

Homestead (Block #1,150,000 - March 14, 2016)

- [ ] Blog post, EIP-2, EIP-7, EIP-8

DAO Fork (Block #1,920,000 - July 20, 2016)

- [ ] Blog post, opposition at r/EthereumClassic

DoS Fork (Block #2,463,000 - October 18, 2016)

- [ ] Blog post, EIP-150, EIP-158

Spurious Dragon (Block #2,675,000 - November 22, 2016)

- [ ] Blog post, EIP-155, EIP-160, EIP-161, EIP-170

Metropolis will be scheduled end of June, 2017 (to be announced_)

- work in progress: EIP-86, EIP-96, EIP-98, EIP-100, EIP-140, EIP-196, EIP-197, EIP-198

Serenity to be announced (2018)

- [ ] Why does Ethereum plan to move to Proof of Stake?

List of public testnets:

Olympic, pre-release public test network with ID #0 (replaced by Morden)
Morden, Fontier-based public test network with ID #2 (replaced by Ropsten)
Ropsten, Homestead-based public test network with ID #3 (deprecated as it was not merged)
ConsenSys, Proof-of-Work public test network
Kovan, Proof-of-Authority public test network(deprecated as it was not merged)
Rinkeby, Proof-of-Authority public test network)(deprecated as it was not merged)
Goerli, Proof-of-Stake public test network
Sepolia, Proof-of-Stake public test network