Bachelor project: creating a cryptocurrency. Guidance needed! :)

[Iaroslav]

Hello there, the BitcoinTalk crowd!


First of all, let me introduce myself.
My name is Iaroslav, and I am from Moldova. Yet, I study at the Computer Science faculty in Romania. 

Recently I've chosen "creating a cryptocurrency" as the subject for my Bachelor project (which I've got to present in a year's time).


Now, in order to do this properly (and by "properly" I don't mean just working on a "satisfying" project, but, rather, becoming really knowledgeable about the domain, and, ultimately, contributing to its further development/improvement), I've decided to scrutinize the cryptocurrencies inside and out.

I'd be really grateful to you if you provided me with the list of the most relevant/interesting/technical (in your opinion) books, articles and whatnot about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, in general, and any other related subject.


Really looking forward to your help,
Iaroslav.

[davis196]

Do you really want to create a cryptocurrency,or you are just asking for information about cryptos?
Do you think that creating a cryptocurrency is easy?
Now,about your request.I assume that you have a working PC and internet,which means you can search in google and youtube.
I think that people who make threads saying "give me all the info (books,articles,etc...)about this subject" are just lazy and don`t want to search google and youtube.
Anyway, i wish you good luck with your bachelor project OP.

[Iaroslav]

Do you really want to create a cryptocurrency,or you are just asking for information about cryptos?
Do you think that creating a cryptocurrency is easy?
Now,about your request.I assume that you have a working PC and internet,which means you can search in google and youtube.
I think that people who make threads saying "give me all the info (books,articles,etc...)about this subject" are just lazy and don`t want to search google and youtube.
Anyway, i wish you good luck with your bachelor project OP.

Well, of course, I want to create a cryptocurrency, as that's one of the main goal of this project.

No, I don't think that this is super easy, and that's why I've started working on the project ahead of time.

Now, I did search the web in regards to all this (and picked several books for me to read), but figured out that it'd be a good idea to also reach out to the people on this forum, as they could help me out with some "additional" information/advice, based on their experience. 

[redigaffi]

Hey,

have a look at this paper

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~baisang/LearnCoin.pdf

https://github.com/altcryptomining/learncoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1278734.0

[Iaroslav]

Hey,

have a look at this paper

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~baisang/LearnCoin.pdf

https://github.com/altcryptomining/learncoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1278734.0

Thank you, redigaffi!
I'll take a look at the links later on.

[redigaffi]

Your welcome

I found this, BasicCoin, written entirely in Python, with just 600 lines of code!!!

https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/basiccoin

[autistaorange]

Your welcome

I found this, BasicCoin, written entirely in Python, with just 600 lines of code!!!

https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/basiccoin

Hey nice find!  I love python and may take a look at this myself.