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I compiled some of the resources I used to start understanding it.

It it a bit focused on ethereum, but I guess it is useful for starting to understand blockchain and smart contracts in general regardless

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Watching

- "GOTO 2017 • Blockchain: The Slowest (and most Fascinating) Database in the World • Stefan Tilkov” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li3rfBAP_fE

Explains how the blockchain works and walks through most of the technical terms you will need to know

- "Ethereum Vs. Bitcoin: What Sets Them Apart? | CNBC” https://youtu.be/0UBk1e5qnr4

Uses the blockchain explanation to give you an idea of how the smart contract idea differs Ethereum from Bitcoin

- "Vitalik Buterin explains Ethereum" https://youtu.be/TDGq4aeevgY

3 minute macro explanation of what is Ethereum from its inventor Vitalik Buterin

- "DEVCON1: Ethereum for Dummies - Dr. Gavin Wood” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LK0t_qaPo

Ethereum's CTO Dr. Gavin Wood explains in a very macro way the Ethereum concept with an idea of how the “Global Computer” works and what is the “Ethereum Virtual Machine”

- Devcon2: Ethereum in 25 Minutes https://youtu.be/66SaEDzlmP4

Vitalik Buterin give and overview of the Ethereum protocol and shows what is an Ethereum transaction, what is Gas (and how computation time is actually paid for miners), how the state machine works and what you can do with it

- DEVCON1: Ethereum in the Enterprise Environment - Taylor Gerring https://youtu.be/HXNWhXuMNpw

Expose core concepts about the blockchain and the Ethereum platform that are valuable to enterprise and how companies can leverage that using web technologies

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Reading

- Coinbase - A beginner’s guide to Ethereum https://blog.coinbase.com/a-beginners-guide-to-ethereum-46dd...

- Fat Protocols http://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols

- The difference between App Coins and Protocol Tokens https://blog.0xproject.com/the-difference-between-app-coins-...

- What’s the Difference Between an ‘ICO’ and a ‘Token Launch’? Coins vs. Tokens (What is a SNGLS token?) https://medium.com/@SingularDTV/whats-the-difference-between...

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Source of links, links and more links

- /r/ethereum - getting started https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/61y5ix/welcome_to...

- The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency — Nick Szabo (Scroll to "Selected Links from the Episode”) https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/

- What The Fuck Is Ethereum? ("I am a total nerd" option) http://whatthefuckisethereum.com/#nerd

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Extra reading

- Money, blockchains, and social scalability http://unenumerated.blogspot.com.br/2017/02/money-blockchain...

- Does your dapp need a token? https://medium.com/@simondlr/does-your-dapp-need-a-token-394...

- Ethereum documentation http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/index.html

- Ethereum Wiki - FAQ https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/FAQ

⬐ mbrock

Great list!

I thought this 45 minute talk by Stefan Tilkov was great: https://youtu.be/li3rfBAP_fE