I gathered few resources that might help you to better understand the crypto market.
Some of the articles are more in depth than others, I hope that you will find most of them useful:
- How does blockchain really work? I built an app to show you:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-does-blockchain-really-work-i-built-an-app-to-show-you-6b70cd4caf7d/
- Resources from a16z for Understanding Crypto:
https://a16z.com/2020/04/30/explaining-crypto-from-a16z/
- Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day:
http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
- Blockchain PR guide:
https://guerrillabuzz.com/blockchain-pr/
- Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later:
https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/11/22/progress.html
- What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s:
https://blog.coinbase.com/what-will-happen-to-cryptocurrency-in-the-2020s-d93746744a8f