Crypto blogs

The corporate blog of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, covering company policy, security responses, and cryptocurrency network incidents.

Top post: Coinbase is a mission focused company

Freedom to Tinker is a Princeton CITP blog on security, privacy, tech policy and Bitcoin, with posts by Ed Felten and colleagues.

Top post: The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013)

Trail of Bits, a security research and consulting firm, writes about cryptography, program analysis, VPN tooling, and smart contract audits.

Top post: RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

Molly White's running timeline of crypto and web3 hacks, scams, collapses, and fraud.

Top post: $11,914,892,503 lost to "web3" hacks, scams, and fraud since January 1, 2021

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, writes about blockchain design, proof of stake, rollups, governance, and public goods funding.

Top post: Why Proof of Stake?

Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Signal, writes about cryptography, privacy, TLS, GPG, and web3.

Top post: My First Impressions of Web3

Stephen Diehl, a London-based developer, writes about Haskell, compilers, LLVM, cryptocurrency criticism, and security.

Top post: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

Lyn Alden, an investment strategist, writes long essays on money, inflation, the dollar, and Bitcoin.

Top post: The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system

Ethereum Foundation's official blog with protocol updates, research posts by Vitalik Buterin, and security notices.

Top post: Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity

Cornell computer scientists, including Emin Gün Sirer, write on distributed systems, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and database fault tolerance.

Top post: Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance

Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, writes about privacy, copyright, surveillance, and Bitcoin.

Top post: Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin

Digiconomist, run by Alex de Vries, tracks the energy use and electronic waste of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Top post: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

Continuations is the blog of Albert Wenger, a venture capitalist who writes about crypto, technology, economics, and computer science basics.

Top post: Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?

David Rosenthal, a veteran computer scientist and digital preservation researcher, writes about storage economics, cryptocurrencies, and technology history.

Top post: The death of corporate research labs

Coinmonks is a Medium publication where multiple authors write about cryptocurrency, blockchain development, and security incidents.

Top post: The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack

Nick Szabo, a computer scientist and legal scholar, writes about digital money, smart contracts, and the history of institutions.

Top post: Money, blockchains, and social scalability

David Gerard writes skeptical, critical coverage of cryptocurrency, blockchain, and related tech scams, and wrote Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain.

Top post: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

Archive of cypherpunk and digital-money writing, including Nick Szabo's essays, the Bitcoin whitepaper, and the Cyphernomicon.

Top post: Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)

Molly White writes critical research and essays on cryptocurrency, blockchains, web3, and the wider tech industry.

Top post: The Edited Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto

Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm, writes about its investments, crypto protocols, and its investment theses.

Top post: Fat Protocols

Andreessen Horowitz's content site publishes essays on crypto, DAOs, data infrastructure, startup metrics, and technology trends.

Top post: DAOs, a Canon

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, writes about crypto, privacy, governance, zero-knowledge proofs, and wider social and technical questions.

Top post: Why I support privacy

Marc Bevand writes technical posts on performance, security, Bitcoin energy use, and reverse engineering.

Top post: My experience with the great firewall of China

Mike Hearn, a former Bitcoin and Google developer, writes about garbage collection, language design, Bitcoin, science replication, and COVID-19.

Top post: The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment (2016)

The Sia team writes about Sia, a decentralized cloud storage network built on blockchain, and related projects like Skynet and SkyDB.

Top post: Skynet, a decentralized CDN and file sharing platform

Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, writes on the euro, Bitcoin, Marxism, technofeudalism, and the economics of Eve Online.

Top post: War spikes in the eve online universe a political economists account

Molly White writes a newsletter on cryptocurrency, tech, Wikipedia, and the open web, and runs her own self-hosted site.

Top post: Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own

Tony Arcieri is a security and cryptography engineer who writes about Rust, memory safety, password managers, blockchains, and Tether.

Top post: What's wrong with in-browser cryptography?

Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange, publishes engineering and company posts covering security advisories, its Rust migration, bank charter approval, and trading fees.

Top post: Security Advisory: Mobile Phones

Amy Castor is a journalist who investigates cryptocurrency, covering Tether, NFTs, Signal and MobileCoin, and market collapses.

Top post: Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme

The Cryptography Mailing List hosted at metzdowd.com is a long-running discussion list where cryptographers and security engineers debate protocols, algorithms and policy.

Top post: 10 years of Bitcoin

Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, publishes reports on crypto crime, scams, ransomware, and global cryptocurrency adoption.

Top post: 2021 crypto crime report intro ransomware scams darknet markets

JP Koning writes the Moneyness blog on the economics and history of money, currencies, payments and Bitcoin.

Top post: From Circle-of-Gold to Mega$Nets to Bitcoin

Preston Byrne, a lawyer, writes skeptical analysis of cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, token sales, and the law around them.

Top post: The Problem with Calling Bitcoin a “Ponzi Scheme”

Haseeb Qureshi, a software engineer and crypto investor, writes about job negotiation, tech hiring, Ethereum, and decentralization.

Top post: Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)

Mike Hearn, a former Google engineer and Bitcoin developer, writes about Bitcoin, Kotlin, the JVM and programming language design.

Top post: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

The BitMEX crypto derivatives exchange publishes research on Bitcoin's history, Tether, mining, and its own engineering.

Top post: Tether

a16z crypto is the crypto investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz, publishing reports, fund announcements, and essays on crypto, NFTs, and stablecoins.

Top post: Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report

Startupboy is the blog of Gary Rieschel-era startup writer Tim Brown? No: an entrepreneur writing about startups, hiring, and Bitcoin.

Top post: The Bitcoin Model for Crowdfunding

Bitfinexed is an anonymous Medium blog analyzing Bitfinex and Tether, alleging wash trading, market manipulation, and unauditable reserves.

Top post: Homepage

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky writes about DNS, DNSSEC, entropy generation, clickjacking and Bitcoin-related security issues.

Top post: Dan Kaminsky responds (at length) to DJB's 27C3 DNSSEC presentation

Paradigm, a crypto investment firm, publishes research and essays on Ethereum, smart contract security, zero knowledge proofs and market cycles.

Top post: Ethereum is a dark forest (2020)

Jameson Lopp is a Bitcoin developer and security engineer who writes about Bitcoin, self-custody, Lightning, and decentralized communication.

Top post: Bitcoin resources

Paul Sztorc, a Bitcoin developer, writes about proof of work, proof of stake, mining economics, decentralization and the blocksize debate.

Top post: Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work

Let's Talk Bitcoin is a Bitcoin media site with a podcast and articles on Mt. Gox, network costs and how Bitcoin might scale.

Top post: Bitcoin and the Three Laws of Robotics

Balaji Srinivasan, a tech investor and former startup founder, writes about technology, cryptocurrency, finance, and ways to leave centralized platforms.

Top post: The Purpose of Technology

David Gerard's news site is a skeptical look at the AI industry, covering hype, coding tools, crypto ties, and vendor failures.

Top post: Steve yegges gas town vibe coding goes crypto scam

Joi Ito, former director of the MIT Media Lab, writes about technology, networks, digital currency, activism and his travels.

Top post: Antidisciplinary

Chris Dixon, a venture investor at a16z, writes about technology trends, internet business models, decentralization, and crypto.

Top post: Eleven Reasons to Be Excited About the Future of Technology

Elliptic's company blog covers blockchain analytics, tracing crypto used in crime, ransomware, sanctions evasion, and regulation.

Top post: How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil

The Bitcoin Core project's official blog covers software releases, protocol upgrades like SegWit, security disclosures, and FAQs.

Top post: Zero-Knowledge Contingent Payment

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, writes on decentralization, proof of stake, zk-SNARKs, and elliptic curve cryptography.

Top post: The Meaning of Decentralization

The P2P Foundation writes about peer-to-peer culture, commons, Bitcoin, decentralized platforms and alternatives to gig economy services.

Top post: The Face Value of Bitcoin: Proof of Work and the Labour Theory of Value

The IOTA Foundation's official blog, covering its Tangle ledger, data marketplace, product updates, and responses to security criticism.

Top post: Curl disclosure, beyond the headline

Tom Morris, a UK developer who blogs opinions on programming, workplaces, JavaScript, smart contracts and tech culture.

Top post: No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app

Nick Szabo, a computer scientist and legal scholar, publishes essays on smart contracts, the origins of money, and property rights.

Top post: Shelling Out -- The Origins of Money

Peter Todd is a Bitcoin developer who writes about Bitcoin protocol changes, OpenTimestamps, and critiques of crypto projects and ICOs.

Top post: Cypherpunk Desert Bus: My Role in the 2016 Zcash Trusted Setup Ceremony

The IMF Blog publishes International Monetary Fund staff posts on monetary policy, global debt, digital money, crypto, and economic growth.

Top post: Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work

Elaine Ou writes about Bitcoin, finance, and tech labor, with occasional posts on startups and programming.

Top post: How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls

Algorithmia, a company selling algorithms as a service, wrote about machine learning for developers and its own products.

Top post: Introduction to Machine Learning for Developers