I'm trying to learn cryptocurrency, but I want to find information and answers that aren't just "go read bitcoin-core source code".
What I'm asking for would be something
like the original satoshi whitepaper, except in much much more details. What is the cryptography behind a transaction (or any coin), or a signature, what defines a block, and some more technical questions that aren't answered in the whitepaper.
And these are just the bitcoin-related questions, ethereum also comes with a massively fresh technology that is smart-contracts and how they're implemented in the blockchain.
So, the whitepapers for both those coin don't include every aspect of how the code can be used, like for bitcoin : multi-sig, time-locked transactions, how are hashes generated for pretty much everything, and I'm sure there's a lot more uses that I don't know etc.. And the same thing for Ethereum.
So before trying to understand purely technical source code, I'd like to have an extensive idea about the high level concepts of these 2 coins mostly, link any books, or videos you think are useful! Who knows, maybe this link will help out future developers to innovate as well.
I promise I am going to try and go through everything you share here (Except shills for new altcoins). Here are the books I found that seemed to touch into the inner workings of just bitcoin while still keeping a high-level generalisations of the concepts :
Chris Clark - Bitcoin Internals A Technical Guide to Bitcoin (2013)
[The Wiley Finance Series] Pedro Franco - Understanding Bitcoin Cryptography, Engineering and Economics (2014, Wiley)
Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Mastering Bitcoin Programming the Open Blockchain (2017, O’Reilly Media)
Ghassan Karame, Elli Androulaki - Bitcoin and Blockchain Security (2017, Artech)
I only just started reading the first one, so if any of you already has opinions about these let me know what you think! Cheers.