CCN, Coindesk, The Merkle full of shit. /r/bitcoin is getting spammed by stupid memes and price posts.
I will self-moderate this thread personally and if the person who comments has a signature of a shitcoin, I will delete it. If the comment is useless, trash, unhelpful... I will delete it.
This thread is for Bitcoin Maximalists.
Let's try to keep it civil yet informative and helpful.
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Major Subjects to discuss;
1. Possible attacks on Bitcoin;
2. Overview of Crypto Industry and possible ties to goverments and banks;
Green; Wall street interests and distributed ledgers.
Light blue; Neutral investors (diverse investments spread across the industry)
Bue; Big blockers.
Red; Billionaire business magnate (owner of Hong Kong)
Orange; US gov influenced
Light grey; Assumed neutrals
3. Lightning Network, Atomic Swaps and emerging developments.
4. Making the Bitcoin easy to use
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If you are a beginner or interested to teach yourself about Bitcoin and related subjects, here is some resources;
https://bitcointechtalk.com
https://elaineou.com
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/
https://blog.bitmex.com/research/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
https://blog.acolyer.org
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com
https://petertodd.org
http://nakamotoinstitute.org
http://www.truthcoin.info
http://lopp.net/bitcoin.html
https://startupboy.com/author/naval
https://bitcoinmagazine.com
http://soc1024.ece.illinois.edu
Some papers worth reading;
http://crypsys.mmci.uni-saarland.de/projects/CoinShuffle/coinshuffle.pdf
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/12/223058-bitcoins-academic-pedigree/fulltext
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/464.pdf
http://randomwalker.info/publications/bitcoin-obfuscation.pdf
http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/BHMW16.pdf
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/686.pdf
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rsportnoff/resources/KDD-Final-Portnoff.pdf
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/08/29/1711125114.full.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/document/367628960/Fraud-Fraud-Cycle-and-Business-Cycle
http://www.nber.org/papers/w10216.pdf
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14au-cs244b/labs/projects/copeland_zhong.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01341.pdf
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/919.pdf
https://crypto.stanford.edu/seclab/sem-14-15/stanford-2014.svg#1_0