2008

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - the original Bitcoin whitepaper published pseudonymously by Satoshi Nakamoto. It's succinct and surprisingly accessible to a nonexpert.

2011

Bitcoin - by Fred Wilson

2013

Coinbase - by Chris Dixon

Why I'm interested in Bitcoin - by Chris Dixon

2014

Why Bitcoin Matters — by Marc Andreessen

2015

The Value Investor's Case for… Bitcoin?! — by Bill Miller

2016

Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency — by Fred Ehrsam

Fat Protocols — by Joel Monegro

2017

Value of the Token Model — by Fred Ehrsam

A beginner's guide to Ethereum — by Linda Xie

The Meaning of Decentralization — by Vitalik Buterin

Thoughts on Tokens — by Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant

Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design — by Chris Dixon

Analyzing Token Sale Models — by Vitalik Buterin

Cryptocurrency's Netscape Moment — by Elad Gil

Permissionless — by Alok Vasudev

The Slow Death of the Firm — by Nick Tomaino

Big Banks And Blockchain — by Elad Gil

An (Institutional) Investor's Take on Cryptoassets — by John Pfeffer, ex-KKR Partner

2018

Why decentralization matters — by Chris Dixon

And What Has the Blockchain Ever Done for Us? — by Balaji Srinivasan

Stablecoins: designing a price-stable cryptocurrency — by Haseeb Qureshi

Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium) — by Brandon Quittem

The Bullish Case for Bitcoin — by Vijay Boyapati

2019

Yes, You May Need a Blockchain — by Balaji Srinivasan

The future of decentralized finance — by Linda Xie

Why Bitcoin Matters — by Aleksandar Svetski

The case for a small allocation to Bitcoin — by Wences Casares

2020

The Great Monetary Inflation — by Paul Jones & Lorenzo Giorgianni

Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic — by Matt Huang

Bitcoin: Addressing Misconceptions — Seeking Alpha, by Lyn Alden Schwartzer

What explains the rise of AMMs? — by Haseeb Qureshi

The Number Zero and Bitcoin — by Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin Investment Thesis — by Fidelity Digital Assets

Bitcoin is like... — by Oleg Andreev

Resources from a16z for Understanding Crypto — by Andreessen Horowitz

A Beginner's Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) — by Coinbase

Square, Inc. Bitcoin Investment Whitepaper — by Square, Inc.

Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms — by Fidelity Digital Assets

How to Value Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies — by Lyn Alden

Bitcoin Is Winning the Covid-19 Monetary Revolution — by Niall Ferguson

An Overview of Cryptocurrency Use Cases — by World Economic Forum

Interactive Introduction to Blockchain — by Goldman Sachs

2021

CFA Institute Research Foundation Cryptoassets Brief — by Matt Hougan & David Lawant

The Inconvenient Truth About Cryptocurrencies — by Raoul Pal

What I Think of Bitcoin — by Ray Dalio

On Bitcoin Energy Consumption — by Galaxy Digital Mining

The Case for Cryptocurrency As an Investable Asset Class in a Diversified Portfolio — by Morgan Stanley

3rd Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study — by University of Cambridge

Crypto: a new asset class? — by Goldman Sachs

INDUSTRY REVOLUTION VOLUME IV — by Citi

Crypto Fundraising Report — by Dove Metrics

Decentralized Finance — by Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

DeFi Report — by Consensys

DeFi Beyond the Hype — by Wharton

2022

Crypto Theses for 2022 - Messari

BITCOIN FIRST - Fidelity Digital Assets

Opportunities in the metaverse - by JP Morgan

How Professional Investors Perceive Crypto in 2022 and Beyond - by Nickel Digital

Institutional Digital Assets: Powering the Hedge Fund Crypto Surge - by HedgeWeek

Understanding Cryptocurrency - Wells Fargo

DeFi and Web3 for Organizations - by ConsenSys

Global Money Dispatch - by Credit Suisse

Cryptocurrency Regulations by Country - Thomson Reuters

Cryptos on the Rise 2022 - Thomson Reuters

What to Expect from Ethereum's Merge Upgrade — by Galaxy Digital

Insitutionalisation of crypto-assets and DeFi-TradFi interconnectedness - report by OECD-OCDE