Cryptocurrency Super-Navigator -- Updated 2021/7/22
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The Bitcoin website and Original White Paper written by Satoshi Nakamoto.
For introductory info on crypto, check out Binance Academy and Jameson Lopp's site.
The total number of Bitcoins that will ever exist is hard-coded into the
software at ~21 million BTC. These 21 million BTC are divisible down to 8
decimal places, providing for about 2.1 quadrillion transactable units of the
currency. The smallest unit, 0.00000001 BTC, is called a 'Satoshi'.
FAQs about cryptocurrencies and financial terms and crypto lingo.
Andreas Antonopoulos on the JRE podcast [1, 2, 3, 4, +]; these are layman's
explanations of the invention of distributed ledger technology.
Arguments for why Bitcoin is historically the greatest advancement in currency.
Tuur Demeester at the 2013 Bitcoin conference debunking myths.
Andreas giving a talk on Bitcoin's scalability qua the Lightning Network.
An advanced video description of how Bitcoin works under the hood.
More detailed descriptors of how the Bitcoin ecosystem works.
Bitcoin's transaction and store-of-value superiority.
Bitcoin's performance - Best performing currency of 2013, 15, 16, 17, 19, and 20.
:: Wallets, Clients, Importance ::
1. BTC- Bitcoin wallets and phone wallet. Their official IRC and forums.
-> Download the Electrum wallet instead if you don't want to sync 200+ GB.
2. ETH- Ethereum wallets and their official forums.
3. XMR- Monero and ZEC/Zcash wallets.
The "Golden Three" in cryptocurrency have shifted from being BTC, LTC, and XRP to
BTC, ETH, and XMR. The reasons for this are because Litecoin stopped being ASIC
resistant, which was its selling point, and Ripple is a shit-tier company (take it
from someone that was on the inside) that is aiding the enemy - fiat. Ethereum is
by far the most robust turing-complete cryptocurrency, and therefore development
platform, in the space. Monero/Zcash are the most robust private currencies to
date. You should never have to bother with any currency outside of the golden
three if you are just going to be day trading or scalping, not just because the
rest are irrelevant technologies, but because trading them artificially inflates
their volumes, making them look more viable as technologies than they really are.
Setting up your bitcoin wallet (tutorial).
After your wallet finishes syncronizing, make sure you encrypt it. Also make
sure you backup your wallet (private keys) and save a copy somewhere else.
You should consider getting a hardware wallet like Trezor, Ledger, or Keycard.
Atomic/Exodus store many coins, have built-in exchanges, and atomic swaps.
Coinb.in is a webtool for generating, verifying, signing, and broadcasting.
:: Blockchain Explorers ::
Blockchain.info is the de facto BTC explorer but Oxt has cool features too.
CryptoID has over a hundred altcoins.
OmniExplorer should have what CryptoID doesn't.
Etherscan for Ethereum (and some of their statistical data).
Ripple's official live explorer (and some of their statistical data).
Bitcoin's top 100 richest wallets.
Blockchair has customizable stats and visuals for BTC, BCH, and ETH.
:: Cold Storage and Vanity ::
How to make Paper Wallets and Cold Storage.
BitAddress, an address & private key generator for new wallets & cold storage.
WarpWallet, don't need to store the priv key if you remember your passphrase.
VanityGen lets you generate a vanity address securely (on your desktop).
BitcoinVanityGen is easier to use (web generator), but not as secure.
:: Large + Established + Secure Exchange Markets ::
Binance - Largest trade volume modulo swap contracts.
FTX - Oldest exchange to offer derivatives contracts (on everything).
StellarX - Decentralized, P2P, truly fee-less exchange with every asset class.
Bisq - Decentralized, P2P, Tor-routed bitcoin exchange platform.
Gemini - For buying and selling BTC, ETH, and ZEC.
GDAX - American exchange market, owned by Coinbase.
Bittrex - American exchange for many altcoin pairings.
LocalBitcoins - Buy/Sell with people in your area using any kind of method.
Bitcoin-otc - Buy/Sell over-the-counter on freenode's IRC network.
InDEX is a list of ~200 decentralized exchanges.
Bitcoincharts lists exchanges by 30-day volume.
Crypto exchange ranks from Exchange War and Hacken.
:: Ease and Efficiency Tools ::
Shift Card, a BTC debit card like Xapo, lets you use Bitcoin anywhere now.
Changelly, Flyp.me, CoinSwitch, and ShapeShift for swapping currencies.
Coinpayments allows for all kinds of merchant tools and alt-coin trades.
Libra and BitcoinTaxes for calculating capital gains on all your cryptocurrency.
:: Miners and Mining ::
What To Mine/Mine The Coin are profitability calculators for most coins.
Bitmain is the largest ASIC hardware manufacturer and distributor currently.
Antpool is Bitmain's miner pool and is one of the largest on the planet.
Hashnest is Bitmain's hashpower-buying site.
Difficulty and profit calculators from BitcoinWisdom.
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