Collection of Research Paper/Journals on Bitcoin

[BTCIndia]

We're witnessing may scholar interested in doing reseacrh on Bitcoin. And now, various companies(I won't name) has started to acquire rights from them in order to.. You know.  

We should help fellow researchers. I've added few links in order to help people doing intensive study of Bitcoin for whatsoever purpose. If you've links to more, then please feel free to share. Will help them from wasting money(considering knowledge must be free or other way round most of the research in western countries are funded by government and government=public) and time on google.

P.S: Collection in Torrent?

1. Mother Paper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System *bow with respect*
By Satoshi Nakamoto
Category: Technical
Link: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

2. Microsoft Research: On Bitcoin and Red Balloons
Author: Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren, and Aviv Zohar
Category: Technical
Link: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/156072/bitcoin.pdf

3. A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names
Author: Sarah, Marjori, Grant, Kirill, Damon, Geoffrey and Stefan Savage
Link: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

4. Accelerating Bitcoin's Transaction Processing
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~avivz/pubs/13/btc_scalability_full.pdf

5. Bitcoin Master Thesis by Piotr "ThePiachu" Piasecki
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3658181/PiotrPiasecki-BitcoinMasterThesis.pdf‎

6. Overview of Colored Coins
https://bitcoil.co.il/BitcoinX.pdf

7. Mixcoin: Anonymity for Bitcoin with accountable mixes
https://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/mix.pdf

8. Primecoin: Cryptocurrency with Prime Number Proof-of-Work
http://primecoin.org/static/primecoin-paper.pdf

9. Momentum - A Memory-Hard Proof-of-Work via Finding Birthday Collisions
http://invictus-innovations.com/s/MomentumProofOfWork.pdf

10. Purely P2P Crypto-Currency With Finite Mini-Blockchain
http://www.bitfreak.info/files/pp2p-ccmbc-rev1.pdf

11. Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform
https://www.ethereum.org/ethereum.html

12. BitShares White Paper
http://invictus-innovations.com/s/BitShares-White-Paper-2-e6cm.pdf

13. A fistul of bitcoins  from University of San Diego California
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

14. Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles, University of California San Diego
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/ndss14.pdf

I'll add more..

[Sonny]

It will be great to have a list of research papers / academic journals on bitcoin.

[BTCisthefuture]

This should be a nice list. I have a few research papers from educational and financial institutions laying around somewhere. I'll find them and post them up later.

[BTCisthefuture]

A fistul of bitcoins  from University of San Diego California

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

[BTCIndia]

A fistul of bitcoins  from University of San Diego California

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

Thanks! I've updated original list.

[djarot]

MRA Bitcoin Primer

[BTCisthefuture]

Another one from some folks at University of California San Diego

Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/ndss14.pdf

[bitfreak!]

Here's a collection of papers which are related to, inspired by, or otherwise connected to Bitcoin:

Accelerating Bitcoin's Transaction Processing
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~avivz/pubs/13/btc_scalability_full.pdf

Bitcoin Master Thesis by Piotr "ThePiachu" Piasecki
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3658181/PiotrPiasecki-BitcoinMasterThesis.pdf‎

Overview of Colored Coins
https://bitcoil.co.il/BitcoinX.pdf

Mixcoin: Anonymity for Bitcoin with accountable mixes
https://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/mix.pdf

Primecoin: Cryptocurrency with Prime Number Proof-of-Work
http://primecoin.org/static/primecoin-paper.pdf

Momentum - A Memory-Hard Proof-of-Work via Finding Birthday Collisions
http://invictus-innovations.com/s/MomentumProofOfWork.pdf

Purely P2P Crypto-Currency With Finite Mini-Blockchain
http://www.bitfreak.info/files/pp2p-ccmbc-rev1.pdf

Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform
https://www.ethereum.org/ethereum.html

BitShares White Paper
http://invictus-innovations.com/s/BitShares-White-Paper-2-e6cm.pdf

[BTCIndia]

Pals,
I've been studying Bitcoin since last one hand half year and finally, I've collected almost every research paper available on Internet and would love to share them with people interested. Access on request!
Please PM!

[Sheldor333]

Great collection. Hope it will be further updated. It is a great read. That is for sure.

[BTCIndia]

Great collection. Hope it will be further updated. It is a great read. That is for sure.

Thanks! I'll update with latest papers soon. Sorry for delay!

[fa]

This is a useful collection, but it hasn't been updated for months.
Hope OP or someone can keep this meaningful topic up to date.

[Spangles Muldoon]

A few articles published in academic legal journals:

"Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency" 4 Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal (Winter 2012) (author Reuben Grinberg)

"Coming Soon to a Legislature Near You: Comprehensive State Law Governing Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets" 8 Charleston Law Review 429 (Spring 2014) (author Suzanne B. Walsh)

Also, the following recent federal court opinion regarding investment contracts/securities contains a fairly detailed description of Bitcoin, and is likely to be used by other courts going forward even outside of the securities area of law:

SEC v. Shavers and Bitcoin Savings and Trust, Case No. 4:13-CV-416, Eastern District of Texas, Sept. 18, 2014
2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130781

[BTCIndia]

This is a useful collection, but it hasn't been updated for months.
Hope OP or someone can keep this meaningful topic up to date.

Thank you for bringing attention! I'll update new list soon with exciting papers.

[mcaizgk2]

You might find this collection of scientific research and white papers on bitcoin, blockchain technology, cryptography, algorithms and cryptocurrencies interesting:

http://encryptopedia.com/

bitcointalk ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=976989.0

[SaidG]

Thanks a lot   

[smiletyson]

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=bitcoin&btnG=&lr=
(You may create alert to get new ones).