Mined For Change: https://minedforchange.org/

AI and Crypto Soc: https://www.facebook.com/UCTCryptoSoc/

Libra announcement: https://libra.org/en-US/

Early rumours about Libra: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17332894/facebook-blockchain-group-employee-reshuffle-restructure-david-marcus-kevin-weil and https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers

Facebook crypto job postings: https://www.coindesk.com/facebook-is-hiring-5-new-staff-members-for-its-blockchain-team

Intro to Blockchain (from 3blue1brown): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4

“How does the blockchain work” by D’Aliessi on Medium:

https://medium.com/blockchain-review/how-does-the-blockchain-work-for-dummies-explained-simply-9f94d386e093

Hash functions: https://medium.com/@isuruj/introduction-to-hashing-5b4daf343889 and

https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-hashing/

Merkle Trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

Transaction times across different blockchains: https://medium.com/@johnhinkle_80891/the-fastest-cryptocurrency-transaction-speeds-for-2018-498c1baf87ef

Libra technical whitepaper: https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-blockchain.pdf

Smart contracts (e.g. on Ethereum): https://blockgeeks.com/guides/smart-contracts/

“On the blockchain, nobody knows you’re a fridge” —Richard Gendal Brown: https://gendal.me/about/

Gas prices: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gas-ethereum.asp

Cloud computing on the blockchain vs. with cloud service providers (AWS, Google, etc.): https://medium.com/@eternacapital/blockchain-based-decentralised-cloud-computing-277f307611e1

Facebook (instagram + whatsapp) daily active users: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/

Superforecasting by Phillip Tetlock: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecasting

Prediction markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Civilisational Inadequacy: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zsG9yKcriht2doRhM/inadequacy-and-modesty

Efficient markets: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothesis.asp

Shorting the market: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.asp

WeChat and its ubiquity in China: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16721230/wechat-china-app-mini-programs-messaging-electronic-id-system

“Critical Vulnerability” pull request: https://cryptonews.com/news/cryptoverse-reached-level-9000-in-trolling-facebook-and-libr-4071.htm