Nakamoto Research

Further research and resources
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This resource stands on the shoulders of research by many others who are curious about Bitcoin and the Satoshi Nakamoto persona. Here you’ll find a listing of resources that this researcher has studied since first becoming interested in the topic in 2017.

Research papers

  1. Gur Huberman, Jacob D Leshno, Ciamac Moallemi, Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 88, Issue 6, November 2021, Pages 3011–3040, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdab014
  2. Bradbury, Danny. “The problem with Bitcoin.” Computer Fraud & Security 2013.11 (2013): 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1361-3723(13)70101-5

Academic and professional journals

Several studies have been published across a range of academic journals exploring the economics and finance aspects of Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies.

Communications of the ACM

Journal of Financial Econometrics

IEEE

Articles by institutes, journalists, and researchers

Books

  1. Broken Money 1 The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
  2. The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey: although not mainly focused on Satoshi, this book provides context and insights into the early days of Bitcoin.
  3. Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies by Andreas M. Antonopoulos: this comprehensive guide to Bitcoin covers its technical aspects, including the role of Satoshi Nakamoto. Read as Markdown for free (from the author’s repository)
  4. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction by Narayanan, Bonneau, Felten, Miller, and Goldfeder: This book is used to teach Bitcoin in universities across the globe.
  5. The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg:
  6. The book of Satoshi: The collected writings of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto [PDF]

Other researchers

Bitslog

The following content is from Bitslog, the blog of Sergio Demian Lerner, independent security researcher and Bitcoin specialist since 2011.

Jameson Lopp

Satoshi Nakamoto websites

Tools

  
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