First DAG of All Things Crypto

What follows is an adaptable outline of DAG knowledge tree (DAG structure, same item may appear in several branches):

• History

  • Historical lessons and comparisons: gold, internet, etc.
  • History and evolution of projects

• Societal Needs

  • Financial system problems: lack of access in poorer countries
  • Sociological: need to get private information back from FANG
  • Technological: new era in computing, decentralized resources P2P

• Crypto Ecosystem and challenges - simple introduction

  • Coins/tokens
    • ways to earn coins
    • ways to spend
    • Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico
  • DAO
    • DAICO (Buterin)
  • governance
    • off chain
      • Foundations (Ethereum, ...)
    • on chain
      • Aragon(https://aragon.one/)
  • reality - challenges, deficiencies, and criticisms

• Business models

  • Public and open-source
    • where does this model work and where it does not
  • Private
    • business applications and consortiums

• Cryptoeconomy, cryptoeconomics and digital/information economy

  • General Purpose Platforms
    • Ethereum
    • EOS
    • Telegram
    • Hashgraph
  • Application and business based
    • Prediction markets
    • Logistics and Trade Finance
    • Finance/payments
    • e-Government
      • Identity
      • voting
    • Attention economy
    • Decentralized Exchanges
  • Visionary projects
    • Decentralized Internet
    • Decentralized Information Economy
      • IPFS
      • Filecoin

• Technologies

  • Software

    • Blockchain
      • Lightning
      • Sharding
    • Hashgraph
    • zero knowledge proofs
    • Smart contracts

  • Consensus mechanisms

    • POW
    • POS
    • DPOS
    • Transaction as Proof of Stake (TaPoS)
  • Hardware/specialized
    • Samsung specialized chip
      
  • Wallets

• Financial, crypto and conventional, system and Trading

  • Adoption and interaction of cryptoassets into global financial system
  • Valuation models and cryptoanalytics
  • Exchanges
    • Centralized
      • Kraken
    • Decentralized
      • Radar Relay
      • Etherdelta
      • 0x
    • Notable exchanges
      • Poloniex
      • BTCC
        
      • Bitfinex
  • Hedge Funds
    • Polychain

• Financing mechanisms

  • ICO
  • Venture capital

• Legal/Regulations

  • Usage of currency
  • ICO's

• Influencers

  • Mathematical Cryptography -- Forefathers
  • Entrepreneurs
    • Bram Cohen (BitTorrent)
  • Visionaries/Utopians
  • Journalists/Bloggers
    • Laura Shin (Forbes)
  • Critical voices

• News and notable events

• Specific Currencies and Projects

  • Fiat
  • Stablecoins
    • Royal Mint Gold (RMG)
    • USDT/Tether
    • Digix
  • Floating
    • Bitcoin
    • Ether
    • Ripple