The resources on this page provide some great material to give a better understanding of the Cryptocurrency Space. Please note that some of the pages may have offers on them that our firm has not vetted. All information is for informational purposes only.Trusted and vetted resources are marked accordingly. As a reminder we our not financial advisors and do not offer investment advice.
Getting Started:
- Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five
- Bitcoin Explained (illustrated guide in simple terms)
- The Bitcoin Whitepaper
- Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin by CoinDesk
Miscellaneous Statistics:
- Blockchain Charts
- Bitcoin Charts
- Bitcoin Nodes by Country
- Non-Listening Node Software Estimates
- Bitcoin Core Repository Stats
- Bitcoin demographics & misc stats
- Bitcoin Richlist – see the distribution of wealth
- Bitcoinity – Exchange & Blockchain stats
- BitInfoCharts (Comparison of misc cryptocurrencies)
- Coin Metrics – Open Source Analytics
- Joehoe’s Mempool Size Stats
- OP_RETURN Stats
- Payment Stats
- P2SH.info – historical block & transaction stats
- Statoshi.info – realtime Bitcoin node stats
- TradeBlock – realtime block & mempool stats
- Transaction fee & UTXO stats
- UTXO Age
- UTXOs Created Per Day
Buying Bitcoins:
- Reviews of Popular Exchanges
- Comparison of Best Bitcoin Exchanges
- List of Decentralized Exchanges
- Bitcoin ATM Map
- Local Bitcoins
- Shapeshift
- Realtime Exchange Price Comparison
APP’s for Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency Stats & Trading Basics
- An Overview of Cryptocurrencies for the Savvy Investor
- Comparisons of coins, exchanges, wallets
- CoinGecko coin statistics
- BitInfoCharts coin statistics
- BitcoinMarkets Reddit community
- BitcoinMarkets flair stats
- Sifr Data – Financial Analytics
- Realtime Twitter Sentiment
- TradingView
- Crypto trading simulator
- Volatility Index
- Woobull Charts
Block Explorers:
- Blockchain Browser and Tutorial
- Blockchain.info
- BlockCypher
- Blocktrail
- OXT – blockchain explorer + privacy analysis
- SoChain
- Wallet Explorer
- Yogh.io – raw data block explorer
- MyEtherWallet
- EtherScan.io
Wallets & Exchanges
- MyEtherWallet
- Coinbase
- LiveCoin
- Jaxx.io – soft wallet
- Exodus.io – Securely manage & Exchange blockchain assets
- Poloniex – Digital Asset Exchange – Good for Alt-Coins
- GDAX – Connected to Coinbase – Bitcoin Exchange
- Bittrex – Digital Currency Exchange
Bitcoin Debit Cards
Security
- Keeper – Password Safe
General Historic Information
- The Rise of the Cypherpunks
- Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree
- Cypherpunk Research Archive
- Complete Writings of Satoshi Nakamoto
- The Book of Satoshi
- Original Announcement Email Thread
- Historical Literature
- Essays on Bitcoin
- History from Cypherpunks to JP Morgan
- Digital Gold
- The Bitcoin Standard
- The Age of Cryptocurrency
- History Timeline
- Bitcoin’s Family Tree
Videos
What is a Bitcoin Wallet?
The Essence of Bitocoin
How Bitcoin works (Very technical)
How does Bitcoin Mining work.
The Real Value of Bitcoin
How Bitcoin works (In Depth)