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Bitcoin
Bookmarks
Catalog: Trustless P2P Crypto Trading
Catalog is a peer-to-peer trustless trading platform for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other crypto assets — using on-chain escrow and atomic swaps rather than custodial order books. Designed for OTC-style large trades without trusting a centralized exchange.
Umbrel: Personal Server OS for Self-Hosting
Umbrel is a personal server OS for self-hosting — one-click installs for Bitcoin nodes, Lightning Network nodes, Nextcloud, and dozens of other apps on a Raspberry Pi or home server. The friendliest on-ramp to self-sovereign infrastructure.
Bitcoin Market Research Report — April 2022
Bitcoin Magazine Pro's April 2022 market research report covers on-chain cyclical indicators, derivatives markets, mining economics, and macro conditions during bitcoin's 43% drawdown from ATH. A snapshot of the analytical toolkit used to assess where bitcoin sits in its market cycle.
Running a Bitcoin Lightning Network Node
A guide to running a Bitcoin Lightning Network node — covers the LND or c-lightning stack, channel management, and liquidity. Lightning enables near-instant BTC payments by routing transactions off-chain through a network of payment channels.
Programming Bitcoin — Jimmy Song
Jimmy Song's 'Programming Bitcoin' book repository — a hands-on O'Reilly book that teaches Bitcoin internals by implementing the cryptography and protocol layer from scratch in Python. The deepest technical introduction to how Bitcoin actually works.
btc-heist — Bitcoin Key Generation Educational Tool
btc-heist is a toy Bitcoin key generation tool that generates random private/public key pairs and checks if the address matches any in a list of addresses with non-zero balances. An educational demonstration of why Bitcoin's 2^256 key space makes brute-force impossible in practice.
The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
Lyn Alden's analysis of the petrodollar system's structural weakening — how the dollar's reserve currency status was built on oil settlement agreements, why those are fraying, and what the implications are for dollar hegemony. A well-sourced macro framework for thinking about the next monetary regime.
The Case for Bitcoin in an Institutional Portfolio
A 2020 paper or analysis making the case for Bitcoin allocation in an institutional portfolio — a genre of investment thesis that became prominent as hedge funds and institutional investors began evaluating crypto exposure. Saved via Twitter link in August 2020.