A lot of people quote this as the best place to start, but I'd like to respectfully disagree. I don't have a concise alternative, but I found that paper pretty

A lot of people quote this as the best place to start, but I'd like to respectfully disagree. I don't have a concise alternative, but I found that paper pretty much incomprehensible, and even now with a decent handle on bitcoin it's still pretty opaque.