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This is not necessarily an endorsement of the content of any of these links. Entries are not listed in any particular order and there is a lot of overlap between catagories. We are in the process of adding more...
Contents
• Cypherpunk related
• Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Mining related
• CBDC related
• NFT related
• POAP and DAO related
• Social Credit System, Biometrics, and ID related
• Web3 related
• Metaverse and AR/VR related
• Solid related
• Peer-To-Peer and SAFE Network related
• Fediverse related
• Small Web, IndieWeb, SmolNet, and Local-First Software related
• Packet Radio and Mesh Network related
Cypherpunk related:
The Cypherpunks [by Haseeb Qureshi on Nakamoto]
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto [by Eric Hughes]
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Mining related:
Grokking Bitcoin Book [by Kaller Rosenbaum]
Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster [by Drew DeVault]
b-money [by Wei Dai]
Bit gold [by Nick Szabo on Unenumerated]
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [by "Satoshi Nakamoto"]
Proof of Stake (PoS) [by Jake Frankenfield on Investopedia]
How Does the Blockchain Work? [by Michele D'Aliessi on Medium]
Blockchain Applications and Sustainability Issues [by Rana Roberto Leonardo, et al.]
Private Keys [by Pinboard on Twitter]
Beyond crypto I: Gray technologies [on Interfluidity]
The Left Should Talk About Cryptocurrency [on The Draft Folder]
Do You Really Know What Bitcoin Is? A Guide for the Confused. [by Joy Crane and Max Read in New York Intelligencer]
Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today [by Jon Russell on TechCrunch]
Ethereum Energy Consumption Index [on Digiconomist]
Crypto miners are killing free CI [by Colin Chartier on webapp.io]
Big Hires, Big Money and a D.C. Blitz: A Bold Plan to Dominate Crypto [by Eric Lipton, et al. in The New York Times]
Inside the Largest Bitcoin Mine in The U.S. [by WIRED on YouTube]
When Will The Last Bitcoin Be Mined? [by Peter Wind on CoinCodex]
The Problem with Ethereum [by Tomer Strolight on Medium]
Analysis Shows Bitcoin Whales Are Stockpiling, but 'BTC Ownership Is Not Highly Concentrated' [by Jamie Redman on Bitcoin.com]
Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain [by Jackie Davalos on Bloomberg]
Twitter enables tipping with Bitcoin, plans to let users authenticate NFTs [by Alex Heath on The Verge]
Creative Commons is shilling NFTs [by David Gerard]
Reddit Community Points [by isyourguy on Twitter]
A Normie's Guide to Becoming a Crypto Person [by Sara Harrison in New York Intelligencer]
Joint Economic Committee - Testimony of Timothy Massad
Joint Economic Committee - Testimony of Alexis Goldstein
Joint Economic Committee - Testimony of Kevin Werbach
Demystifying Crypto: Digital Assets and the Role of Government [by Joint Economic Committee on YouTube]
Demystifying Cryptocurrencies: A Primer [by Andrew Karolyi on Avantis]
Cryptocurrencies Demystified and the SEC's Regulatory Stance [by Seoyoung Kim and Sumon Mazumdar]
Demystifying Crypto-Mining: Analysis and Optimizations of memory-hard PoW Algorithms
Demystifying Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks: A Semi-supervised Learning Approach Based on Digital Forensics and Dynamic Network Characteristics
Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador. The President Says the Answer Is More Bitcoin. [by David Gerard]
DON'T Buy a Used Mining GPU! - $h!t Manufacturers Say [by Linus Tech Tips on YouTube]
NashX - exploding Nash equilibrium [by Gwern Branwen]
How Crypto will Change the World (or Not) [by Johnny Harris on YouTube]
Bitcoin's 'One Percent' Controls Lion's Share of the Cryptocurrency's Wealth [by Paul Vigna in The Wall Street Journal]
What El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment Looks Like [by The Wall Street Journal on YouTube]
El Salvador's 'Bitcoin City' is just another crypto fantasy [by Pete Howson]
RChain Cooperative
CBDC related:
US Federal Reserve Is Experimenting With A Digital Currency [by Mandy Williams on CryptoPotato]
Project Dunbar: international settlements using multi-CBDCs [on BIS]
NFT related:
NFTs for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know About The Latest Crypto Craze [by Tom Read at Website Planet]
NFTs Weren't Supposed to End Like This [by Anil Dash in The Atlantic]
The Bizarre World of Non-Fungible Tokens [by InvisibleUp]
Mapping the NFT revolution: market trends, trade networks, and visual features [by Matthieu Nadini, et al. in Scientific Reports]
McDonald's issues 'McNFT' to commemorate McRib's return [by Jon Springer on Ad Age]
Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs [by Matthew Gault on Vice]
NFT Collector Sells People's Fursonas for $100K In Right-Click Mindset War [by Edward Ongweso Jr. on Vice]
NFTs: All You Need To Know As A Digital Artist Or Collector [on Momint]
How do NFT royalties work? [on NFT Innovation]
NFT Royalties: What Are They and How Do They Work? [by Alex W. Gomezz on Cyber Scrilla]
Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million [by Jacob Kastrenakes on The Verge]
An NFT Just Sold for $532 Million, But Didn’t Really Sell at All [by Nick Baker on Bloomberg]
The Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection: What you need to know [by Daniel Van Boom on CNet]
Brian Eno on NFTs & Automaticism [on the crypto syllabus]
NFTs are a massive scam but they are also a beautiful anthropological device [by beka_valentine on Twitter]
POAP and DAO related:
Spotlight: Souvenir, meet Web3 - A POAP Story [by GraspOnCrypto]
What is POAP? [by Cooper Turley on Medium]
Guide to tokens and NFTs: what is 'tokenization' and how does it work? [by Jimmy Aki on Forkast]
Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions [by Max Read in New York Intelligencer]
DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) represent the next step forward in the labor movement [by Li Jin on Twitter]
Moving beyond coin voting governance [by Vitalik Buterin]
A Prehistory of DAOs [by kei on Gnosis Guild]
The New Creator Economy – DAOs, Community Ownership, and Cryptoeconomics [by Nader Dabit on freeCodeCamp]
DAO Landscape [by Coopahtroopa]
What is FWB - Friends with benefits DAO? [on thedapplist.]
Investing in Friends With Benefits (a DAO) [by Carra Wu and Chris Dixon]
Other Internet
RadicalxChange Quadratic Vote
Social Credit System, Biometrics, and ID related:
Social Credit System Wikipedia Entry
Patent - Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data [on WIPO IP Portal]
The Day I Got Microchipped [by Fast Company on YouTube]
Why Kenyans Are Against Huduma Card and Huduma Namba Registration [by Kenn Abuya on techweez]
Aadhaar Wikipedia Entry
Rs 500, 10 minutes, and you have access to billion Aadhaar details [on The Tribune India]
Aadhaar Card Update: Aadhaar enrolment for newborns to happen soon [by Zee News]
Digital Identity Alliance - ID2020
Storing medical information below the skin’s surface [by Anne Trafton for The MIT News Office]
Sold: 50 million digital health passports [on healthcare-in-europe]
Why human microchipping is so popular in Sweden [by ITV News on YouTube]
Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population [by Catalin Cimpanu]
Ethiopia overhauls its education system with IOHK blockchain partnership [by Darren Parkin]
Web3 related:
Web 3.0 & the Future of the Internet [by sadgrl.online]
Keep the web free, say no to Web3 [Yesterweb]
Web3 is not decentralization [by InvisibleUp]
Hacker News on "Web3 is not decentralization" article
Against Web3 and Faux-Decentralization [by Soatok]
Web3 Wikipedia Entry
People are talking about Web3. Is it the Internet of the future or just a buzzword? [by Bobby Allyn on NPR]
What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future Explained [by Nader Dabit on freeCodeCamp]
What Is Web3 and Why Are All the Crypto People Suddenly Talking About It? [by Aaron Mak on Slate]
Why decentralization matters [by Chris Dixon]
Why Web 3 matters [by Chris Dixon on Twitter]
Notes on Web3 [by Robin Sloan]
Is web3 bullsh*t? [by Max Read]
Stephen Diehl's Blog
Tech Won't Save Us Podcast Episode #93 [by Paris Marx and Stephen Diehl]
From contemptuous to indifferent to curious to pretty damn excited: my journey to web3 [by Adam Davidson]
Real world problems that web3 could solve - at least for me [by Adam Davidson]
Is Crypto Bullsh*t? [by Will Wilkinson on Model Citizen]
Why web3 distributed libraries will change the world [by Pablo Moncada-Larrotiz]
Web3 is going just great [by Molly White]
Web Free-point-oh: NFTs, DAOs, the Value of Art, and the Cutest Kitty on the Internitty [by Gwenn Seemel]
The Web3 Fraud [by Nicholas Weaver and Rik Farrow]
The Third Web [by tante]
Jack Dorsey says VCs really own Web3 (and Web3 boosters are pretty mad about it) [by Jacob Kastrenakes on The Verge]
Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are right to raise concerns about Web3 [by Thomas Macaulay on The Next Web]
Metaverse and AR/VR related:
Do normal people need to know or care about "the metaverse"? [by Max Read]
Facebook creates exec team to work on Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for a digital universe [by Kif Leswing on CNBC]
Facebook to rebrand itself and focus on the metaverse [by Thomson Reuters on CBC]
The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg's Escape Hatch [by Kevin Roose in The New York Times]
Facebook gives a glimpse of metaverse, its planned virtual reality world [by The Guardian on YouTube]
HYPER-REALITY [by Keiichi Matsuda on YouTube]
"Sight" [by TheCGBros on YouTube]
Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings [by Tom Warren on The Verge]
Investors Snap Up Metaverse Real Estate in a Virtual Land Boom [by Debra Kamin in The New York Times]
A metaverse mega yacht that just sold for $650,000 is the most expensive NFT sold in The Sandbox virtual world [by Isabelle Lee on Market Insider]
Tim Sweeny on the Metaverse [on Blog.Feistel.Party]
The Metaverse could be a problem. [by Mrwhosetheboss on YouTube]
Getting Married in the Metaverse [by Steven Kurutz in The New York Times]
Metaverse, Post-Pandemic Beauty, Brick-&-Mortar Retail vs E-com [by WGSN on YouTube]
2008 METAVERSE TOUR - THE SOCIAL VIRTUAL WORLD'S A STAGE [by Gary P. Hayes on YouTube]
Metaverse 2031 | A Day In The Life [by Sumsub on YouTube]
The BEST VR Headset in the WORLD - I CAN'T GO BACK! [by Thrill Seeker on YouTube]
Metaverse: The Most Evil Business in the World [by Moon on YouTube]
Solid related:
Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Put Online Privacy on a Solid Foundation [by Rob Pegoraro in PC Magazine]
An introduction to SOLID, Tim Berners-Lee's new, re-decentralized Web [by Arnav Bansal on freeCodeCamp]
Tim Berners-Lee, Solid, and the arrival of the Web 3.0 [by Kurt Bauer on DEV Community]
Peer-To-Peer and SAFE Network related:
Secure Access For Everyone (SAFE)
InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) Wikipedia Entry
Fediverse related:
Fediverse Wikipedia Entry
Fediverse.party
Small Web, IndieWeb, SmolNet, and Local-First Software related:
What is the Small Web? [by Aral Balkan]
IndieWeb
SmolNet Community Wiki
Local-First Software [on Ink & Switch]
Gopher Protocol
Gemini Protocol
Gemini Quickstart! [by Jason McBrayer]
recommended-gemini-capsules [by everything wrong with free software]
FidoNet Wikipedia Entry
The Great Web 1.0 Revival [by Kyle Chayka on Gizmodo]
Run your own social [by Darius Kazemi]
Packet Radio and Mesh Network related:
Packet Radio (Post Apocalyptic Internet?) [by Computerphile on YouTube]
Packet radio lives on through open source software [by Tom Karpiniec on Opensource.com]
Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down [by Patrick Miller and David Daw in PCWorld]
12 communities experimenting with mesh networks [by Jason Tashea on Tehcnical.ly]
Airchat, The Wireless Mesh Network From Lulzlabs [by Brian Benchoff on Hackaday]
These Apps Can Save Your Life During A Disaster [by Brandi Neal on Bustle]
From ISP to P2P: How Mesh Networks Take Bitcoin off the Grid [by Colin Harper in Bitcoin Magazine]
The Serval Project: Free Mobile Phone Connectivity No Matter What [by AB9IL.net]
NYC Mesh