Resources

This is a collection of links that we deem helpful for anyone interested in diving deeper into the topics we are discussing at our meetups. Most of these links are higher level so that they stay relevant longer. You don’t need to be an expert on any of this content but it would be really helpful if you already know what these things are. Please inform us if you find broken or outdated links.

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin Whitepaper: How it all started
• Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin reference implementation
• BIPs: Bitcoin improvement proposals, where new ideas for Bitcoin formally proposed
• Bitcoin-dev Mailing list
• Secp256k1: Elliptic Curve cryptography library used by Bitcoin Core
• Bitcoin.org Developer Guide: Higher level technical guides
• Jameson Lopp’s Bitcoin Page: List of resources collected by Jameson Lopp

Lightning

• Original Lightning Network Whitepapeer
• Deployable Lightning Whitepaper: Follow-up paper by Rusty Russel
• Eltoo Whitepaper
• Lightning RFCs: Lightning Network specification (aka BOLTs)
• LND: One of the major implementations, written in Go by Lightning Labs
• c-lightning: One of the major implementations, written in C by Blockstream
• Eclair: One of the major implementations, written in Scala by Acinq
• Lightning-dev Mailing list

Other Socratic Seminars

• New York
• San Francisco

MISC

• Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter and overall technical information resource
• Bitcoin StackExchange: Q&A on Bitcoin and Lightning Network