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  • Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies,  Princeton: Princeton University Press (forthcoming), 2016. This textbook closely follows the video lectures in the course. The official and professionally done version of the book will be out this summer. 

  • The original Bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto is useful as a historical reference, although Bitcoin has evolved significantly since then and our understanding of it has also advanced.

  • For students interested in research on cryptocurrencies, the "systematization of knowledge" paper co-authored by the lecturers of this course is a good starting point. It is reasonably comprehensive but somewhat terse.




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