Bitcoin academic/research resources - theses, papers, articles, etc...

[de3mka]

Hi all,
I'm new to posting, but have been watching threads for about a year.

I am planning on writing a diploma thesis at school on Bitcoin topic (from SW engineering perspective), but it's really difficult to find any "official" materials. By official I mean academic papers, other people theses, etc...

So my idea is to create a thread where we could consolidate all such science related works and I hope many of you will find this helpful not only in case you want to write something by your own, but also as a reader. If you wish to extend the list, please always note the source, author and year (if known).

Here I start with what I have found (the order is random except for Satoshi's paper, which is considered as basic starting point)

Date added	Year	Author	Topic	Language	Link(s)
19.7.2012	2008	Satoshi Nakamoto	Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System		http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
19.7.2012	2012	Piotr "ThePiachu" Piasecki	Design and security analysis of Bitcoin infrastructure using application deployed on Google Apps Engine.		https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3658181/PiotrPiasecki-BitcoinMasterThesis.pdf https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88149.0
19.7.2012	2012	Jeremy Kirshbaum	The Production of Freedom: Value Production in the US- dominated Financial System, and Possible Alternatives		https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JIyMWIibqH8x20vGBTMBZ2yqM7Xbp54UpWBh0o2H7WI/edit?pli=1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87404.0
19.7.2012	2007	Fabio Varesano	COIN: a distributed accounting system for peer to peer networks	Italian	http://www.varesano.net/contents/projects/coin%20distributed%20accounting%20system%20peer%20peer%20networks https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4944.0
19.7.2012	2012	Rostislav Skudnov	BITCOIN CLIENTS		http://publications.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/47166/Skudnov_Rostislav.pdf?sequence=1
19.7.2012	2012	Simon Barber, Xavier Boyen, Elaine Shi, Ersin Uzun	Bitter to Better—How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency		http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoin.pdf
19.7.2012	2012	Alex Coventry	NooShare: A decentralized ledger of shared computational resources		http://mit.edu/alex_c/www/nooshare.pdf
19.7.2012	2011	David Allen Bronleewe	Bitcoin NFC		http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4150/BRONLEEWE-MASTERS-REPORT.pdf?sequence=1
19.7.2012	2012	Martis Buchholz, Jess Delaney, and Joseph Warren	Bits and Bets. Information, Price Volatility, and Demand for Bitcoin		http://academic.reed.edu/economics/parker/s12/312/finalproj/Bitcoin.pdf
19.7.2012	2011	Raulo	Optimal pool abuse strategy		http://bitcoin.atspace.com/poolcheating.pdf
19.7.2012	2011	Meni Rosenfeld	Analysis of Bitcoin Pooled Mining Reward Systems		https://bitcoil.co.il/pool_analysis.pdf
20.7.2012	2012	Tomáš Jiříček	Bitcoin Exchange system	Czech	https://dip.felk.cvut.cz/browse/pdfcache/jiricto2_2012bach.pdf
20.7.2012	2012	Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren, Aviv Zohar	On Bitcoin and Red Balloons		http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/156072/bitcoin.pdf
20.7.2012	2012	Sergio Demian Lerner	MAVE, NEW LIGHTWEIGHT DIGITAL SIGNATURE PROTOCOLS FOR MASSIVE VERIFICATIONS		http://bitslog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/mave1.pdf
20.7.2012	2012	Sergio Demian Lerner	MAVEPAY, A NEW LIGHTWEIGHT PAYMENT SCHEME FOR PEER TO PEER CURRENCY NETWORKS		http://bitslog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/mavepay1.pdf

Thanks!

[John (John K.)]

I've whitelisted you so you can post this at either Development & Technical Discussion or Bitcoin Discussion. 

[ripper234]

Perhaps keep the info in a wiki entry?

[Meni Rosenfeld]

Perhaps keep the info in a wiki entry?

We have that, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Research.

[de3mka]

Perhaps keep the info in a wiki entry?

We have that, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Research.

Definitely useful sources, but for some reason, Google did not return this site in the beginning.

On the other hand, I believe there are a lot more works in the world. Just at my school I know 1 guy who wrote a bachelor's thesis (in a small country:) ) and more are planning to do so. So, I assume, available resources dynamically increase day by day.

[Sergio_Demian_Lerner]

I would add my two papers. Although they are not strictly about Bitcoin as it is today, they bring many comparisons between Bitcoin and a proposed system and suggest many Bitcoin improvements.

Author: Sergio Demian Lerner
Topic: MAVE, NEW LIGHTWEIGHT DIGITAL SIGNATURE PROTOCOLS FOR MASSIVE VERIFICATIONS
Year: 2012
Link: bitslog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/mave1.pdf

Author: Sergio Demian Lerner
Topic: MAVEPAY, A NEW LIGHTWEIGHT PAYMENT SCHEME FOR PEER TO PEER CURRENCY NETWORKS
Year: 2012
Link: bitslog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/mavepay1.pdf

Thank you for the links you posted, there were many papers I didn't know they existed!

Best regards, Sergio.

[capsqrl]

thesises

You mean "theses", which is the plural of "thesis" :-)

Awesome collection, I've already started plowing through these.

[de3mka]

thesises

You mean "theses", which is the plural of "thesis" :-)

Awesome collection, I've already started plowing through these.

corrected

[capsqrl]

I took the liberty of adding your fine collection to the Research article on the wiki, and reorganized the list of articles there into a nice sortable table. IMHO it's a more natural place for these kinds of things, and I hope you will join me in maintaining the article.