This is a reference index, not a reproduction. Each entry lists where the piece lives, who made it, and a one-line note on what it covers. Full texts remain at the linked URLs; where a live page may have changed or vanished, retrieve the snapshot via the Wayback Machine by prefixing the URL with https://web.archive.org/web/*/ (paste the original link into archive.org's search box). The bismuth.cz and bismuthplatform.com domains are both heavily archived there.
Source-type key: PRIMARY = subject speaking about itself (interviews, the foundation's own posts) — useful for facts, not for establishing notability. SPS = self-published platform (Medium, Steemit, publish0x) — generally not treated as a reliable independent source. PEER-REVIEW = academic, but co-authored by the project lead (not independent). None of the items below are independent secondary coverage in the Wikipedia sense — that is the gap. They are, however, exactly the body of material a journalist would want to see to know the story is real.
1. Interviews with the founder / core team
| Title | By / Where | Date | Type | What it is | Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cryptointerview with the lead developer of Bismuth | Panama_TJ / xamanap — Medium | 29 Sep 2017 | PRIMARY / SPS | The original Q&A; source of the “blockchain Lego” framing. Earliest interview. (Author renamed; old @Panama_TJ link may 404.) | read |
| Bismuth Developer Interview — HCLivess (The First Python Crypto Currency) | aetsen — Steemit | 7 Mar 2018 | PRIMARY / SPS | Technical Q&A: mempool design, throughput, sidechains, dev background. | read |
| Bismuth — the First Python Blockchain (An Interview with Jan) | cblackbeard — Medium | 16 Jan 2019 | PRIMARY / SPS | Team, why-Python, use cases, fund/treasury disclosure. | read |
| teamtalks #32 — bismuth | Jens Ibsen (flashygordy) — Medium | Aug 2019 | PRIMARY / SPS | Long Q&A on emission schedule, hypernodes, supply, philosophy. | read |
| Bismuth Core Developer Interview | aetsen — PeakD (backup: Steemit) | 7 Mar 2018 | PRIMARY / SPS | On external indexing for open-field data, token/alias handling. (Same interview as the aetsen Steemit post.) | read |
| The Bismuth Plugin System | bitsignal — Steemit / PeakD | 16 Jul 2018 | PRIMARY / SPS | Dev-oriented talk on Bismuth's plugin (Crystal) system and its applications. | read |
| Dragginator.com NFT Interview | bitsignal (EggdraSyl) — Steemit / PeakD | 11 Jul 2018 | PRIMARY / SPS | Interview with the dev of Dragginator, an NFT-style game on Bismuth (early non-ETH NFT). | read |
2. BisBabble — the community interview series
Bismuth's own interview series (originally on hypernodes.bismuth.live, now mirrored on bismuthcoin.org/blog). Each profiles a community contributor. Primary source — good colour for a feature, not independent.
| Title | By / Where | Date | Type | What it is | Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BisBabble — Aravind | bismuthcoin.org / hypernodes.bismuth.live | 18 Dec 2019 | PRIMARY | Issue 1. New contributor — background and dev work. | read |
| BisBabble — Endogen (Telegram bot ‘Bauer’) | hypernodes.bismuth.live | 18 Jan 2020 | PRIMARY | Issue 2. German engineer behind the Bauer Telegram bot. | read |
| BisBabble — ShadowCrypto (Pawer bot) | hypernodes.bismuth.live | 7 Feb 2020 | PRIMARY | Contributor to the Pawer Discord bot. | read |
| BisBabble — Nyzblossom (wBismuth dev) | bismuthcoin.org/blog | 4 Nov 2020 | PRIMARY | Q&A with the wBismuth wallet developer. | read |
3. Profiles, reviews & spotlights
| Title | By / Where | Date | Type | What it is | Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bismuth — No ICO, No Premine and First Python Coin! | kingscrown — Steemit | 5 Oct 2017 | SPS | Early write-up + embedded interview; fair-launch framing. | read |
| Crypto Spotlight: Bismuth (BIS) | coinstats — Steemit | 12 Apr 2018 | SPS | Profile contrasting Bismuth with ERC-20 hype (CryptoKitties example). | read |
| Bismuth [$BIS] — Valuable project. Hidden gem. | Joseph L. / bitcointrading — Medium | May 2018 | SPS | Investor-oriented profile; quotes the cryptointerview. | read |
| Bismuth — Project Review | Thant11 — Medium | 2018 | SPS | Independent-ish community review of the platform. | — |
| 3 Promising Altcoins to Invest in for 2018 (A Thoreau Analysis) | altcointhoreau — Medium | 2018 | SPS | Bismuth featured as one of three picks. | — |
| Bismuth: A Dapp Building Platform that doesn’t Bite | CryptoShib | 12 Apr 2020 | SPS | On Python dApp accessibility. | read |
| Coin Report — Bismuth | Altcoin Trader’s Handbook | 7 Dec 2018 | SPS | Structured ‘coin report’ on the first Python blockchain. | read |
| Bismuth (BIS) — A Sleeping Legend that Should be Remembered | publish0x — crypto-bits | 5 Mar 2024 | SPS | Retrospective appreciation piece, ~7 years in. | read |
4. Academic & patent record (not interviews — included for the press kit)
| Title | By / Where | Date | Type | What it is | Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonlinear Feedback Control and Stability Analysis of a Proof-of-Work Blockchain | G. Hovland & J. Kučera — Modeling, Identification and Control (MIC) 38(4) | 2017 | PEER-REVIEW | Difficulty controller as a feedback-control problem. doi:10.4173/mic.2017.4.1 | |
| Tail Removal Block Validation: Implementation and Analysis | G. Hovland & J. Kučera — MIC | 2018 | PEER-REVIEW | Block-validation method, simulation and analysis. | |
| Optimizing Performance of a Blockchain (US 10,880,073) | Hwang et al. — IBM (USPTO) | granted 2020 | PATENT | IBM patent; Bismuth/Hovland work reportedly listed in prior-art citations (verify the ‘Non-patent citations’ section yourself). |
How to recover anything dead: open web.archive.org, paste the original URL, pick a snapshot. For a whole-domain sweep, browse web.archive.org/web/*/bismuth.cz/* and /bismuthplatform.com/*. The Bismuth Foundation's own ‘Awesome-Bismuth’ repo (github.com/bismuthfoundation/Awesome-Bismuth, Articles.md) is the most complete living list and is worth checking for anything added after this catalog. This document indexes what was findable as of June 2026 and is not guaranteed exhaustive.