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The blockchain domain

Sections: Introduction, Insights, Future of Data Science, Academic Sources, Decentralized ML, Decentralized Game Theory, Algorithm Design, Projects, Tutorials, Others;

Introduction

  • 10min video - Siraj Raval uploading compressed knowledge straight into your mind. There is much more where that came from! I strongly recommend watching all of Siraj's videos about blockchain.
  • Blockchain Handbook - A somewhat bulky (55 pages) but very easy to read blockchain primer overviewing the whole domain.
  • Technical introduction - A great medium post taking you step-by-step through essential building blocks of blockchain.
  • New protocol layer - How blockchain fits into the landscape of existing internet protocols.
  • Non-tech introduction - Key takeaways from TED talks about blockchain.
  • What is decentralization? - An non-technical article by NASDAQ.
  • History - A goldmine of publications that shaped blockchain into what it is today. Mostly about Bitcoin.

(non-tech) Insights

  • What is blockchain? - Blockchains ensure integrity and trust between strangers. They make it difficult to cheat. The Internet of Everything needs a Ledger of Everything.
  • Truth about blockchain - Blockchain as a fundamental rather than a disruptive technology. After TCP/IP was created in 1972 many companeis created localized networks . The same is now happening with private blockchains. They will not stand the test of time, just as intranets didn't.
  • Key security - A great article about why security of rpivate keys and not scalability is the biggest obstackle for mass adoption of blockchain.
  • Zk-proofs - A non-technical explanation of importance of zero-knowledge proofs.
  • Why decentralization matters

Academic Sources about Blockchain

Decentralized Machine Learning

  • Convergence of gradient descent - Consensus optimization problems in multi-agent networks arise in collaborative data mining. This paper describes relation of network topology, stepsize etc with properties of convergence for various parameters.

Decentralized Game Theory

Algorithm Design

  • Bulletproofs - Reduction of proof storage complexity from llinear to logarithmic.

Projects for Sciences

  • OpenMined - A marketplace for AI models. This is the future of Artificial Intelligence!
  • BigChainDB - A scalable, decentralized database with Byzantine Fault Tolerance, tailored to the needs of life sciences.
  • Ocean Protocol - A protocol powering BigChainDB, enabling a decentralized data marketplace to power AI of the future.
  • Cardano - An emerging alternative to Ethereum for developing DApps.assets.

Projects (other)

  • OpenBazaar - Market place for everything, a decentralized eBay.
  • Stellar - Blockchain infrastructure for financial systems.
  • Cryptokitties Smart Contract - The silly but effective face of the ERC721 token for trading non-tangible goods. Cryptokitties is the most successful smart contract in history of blockchain.

Tutorials

Blockchain Engineering

  • Scala blockchain - An introduction to how Scorex make building modular blockchains easy.

Infosec

  • Cryptography primer - Overview of concepts from cryptography for those with basic understanding of mathematical notation.
  • Encryption library - A library from Microsoft that can be used to implement a fully homomorphic encryption scheme.

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