# Cinemateca de Bogotá - Expanded Reading List

Michael Nielson's how the bitcoin protocol actually works - this is perhaps a bit technical, but still my favourite bitcoin/blockchain-explainer: https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/

A short (5 min) explainer from me and my friend David, about using a modified game of scrabble to explain blockchains (just for fun): https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/motherboard-explaining-blockchain-with-scrabble/5bae6a70be40773a0724119b

A list with short explanations of many, many different consensus algorithms used by contemporary blockchains - useful to get a sense of the variety of what's out there: https://tokens-economy.gitbook.io/consensus/

History of NFTs, with a good general description of what an NFT is: https://medium.com/@Andrew.Steinwold/the-history-of-non-fungible-tokens-nfts-f362ca57ae10

The specification for eip 721, the NFT token standard. Some of this is quite technical but highlighting it as the most literal answer available to "what an NFT is" - also includes some interesting notes about how NFTs developed and early use-cases: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721

Probably the most widely cited estimation of bitcoin's energy footprint, though it is also widely criticized: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Article by artist Kyle McDonald, on his extensive and thorough work quantifying the environmental impact of the Ethereum network: https://kcimc.medium.com/ethereum-emissions-c750556e7364

Article comparing the energy-footprint of a proof of work chain to a proof of stake chain - but do keep in mind that this was written by Tezos about its competitors: https://medium.com/tqtezos/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake-the-ecological-footprint-c58029faee44

Pro-NFT article by artist Sterling Crispin focusing on the enviromental debate: http://sterlingcrispin.blogspot.com/2021/02/crypto-art-sky-is-not-falling.html

Anti-NFT article by artist Memo Akten, also focusing on the environmental debate: https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053

Data analysis of the distribution of cryptoart sales, and the effects of artist resale rights over time: https://powerdada.medium.com/the-inconvenient-truth-about-secondary-markets-part-ii-6c148a917a08

History of artist's resale rights, in the physical art world: https://hyperallergic.com/153681/an-illustrated-guide-to-artist-resale-royalties-aka-droit-de-suite/

Quantifying Decentralization by Balaji Srinivasan, a very good text for introducing criticality around "what decentralization means": https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e

Longer talk (30 min) from yours truly, unpacking some of the confusion and political issues around decentralization in detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-O4W9TbHg

A long (still current) list of blockchain art, including the launch of most of the NFT marketplaces we've talked about: https://ostachowski.com/about/what-is-crypto-art-or-nft-art/history-of-crypto-art/