NYC LOCAL: First Bitcoin Conference, New York City, 19-21 August 2011
secr...@lxny.org
Friday 19 August 2011 and will run through Sunday 21 August 2011:
http://bitcoinme.com/index.php/bitcon-2011
Some of the meetings will be in the Roosevelt Hotel at
45 East 45th Street at Madison Avenue, on the Island of the
Manahattoes, others in obscure boites, abandoned bialy factories,
and the Great Nacreous Hall beneath Second Avenue.
Bruce Wagner of Only One TV is impresario and host of the First
Bitcoin Conference.
To attend is not free. Registration costs 26 United States dollars.
From http://bitcoinme.com/index.php/bitcon-2011 :
If you need to pay using any form of payment other than Bitcoin,
please telephone +1 646-580-0022 or email
regi...@bitcoinconference.com
Note that there are also gatherings on Thursday 18 August 2011.
On Saturday 1 November 2008, there appeared on Perry Metzger's
cryptography mailing list the following message:
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Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
Satoshi Nakamoto
Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:16:33 -0700
I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully
peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.
The paper is available at:
http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
The main properties:
Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network.
No mint or other trusted parties.
Participants can be anonymous.
New coins are made from Hashcash style proof-of-work.
The proof-of-work for new coin generation also powers the
network to prevent double-spending.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would
allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another
without the burdens of going through a financial institution.
Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main
benefits are lost if a trusted party is still required to prevent
double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending
problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps
transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based
proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without
redoing the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as
proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came
from the largest pool of CPU power. As long as honest nodes control
the most CPU power on the network, they can generate the longest
chain and outpace any attackers. The network itself requires
minimal structure. Messages are broadcasted on a best effort basis,
and nodes can leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the
longest proof-of-work chain as proof of what happened while they
were gone.
Full paper at:
http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Satoshi Nakamoto
</blockquote>
This message is archived at
http://www.mail-archive.com/crypto...@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html
The original paper is still at
http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
and
is still the official home page of the Bitcoin Project.
On Friday 9 January 2011 Satoshi Nakamoto announced publication
of the first code for the Bitcoin system. The announcement is
archived at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/crypto...@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html
Today there are approximately 7000000 bitcoins in existence.
To see how many bitcoins there are right now see
http://blockexplorer.com/q/totalbc
Today a single bitcoin is worth about ten United States dollars.
To see what a bitcoin is worth right now see
http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/
So there is about seventy million United States dollars worth of
bitcoins. Thousands of people hold them, thousands exchange
them, and some people "mine" for them.
For an introduction, Wikipedia's article Bitcoin is not bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
[page was last modified on 16 August 2011 at 12:16]
For more information see:
Dan Kaminsky's slides for Black Ops of TCP/IP 2011:
http://dankaminsky.com/2011/08/05/bo2k11/
Adrianne Jeffries' important article:
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/02/digital-derivatives-bitcoin-markets-wall-street-bankers
Useful video with Gavin Andresen and Amir Taaki:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwNfBgwbqng
Episode 34 of The Bitcoin Show with Bruce Wagner, interview with
reporter Adrianne Jeffries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5UaFZSv_YY
Excellent presentation by Gavin Andresen, head of the main line
of Bitcoin software development, to Amherst Igniter:
http://blip.tv/amherst-media/making-money-gavin-andresen-ignite-amherst-4789326
Gavin Andresen on practical home bitcoin security today:
http://gavinthink.blogspot.com/2011/06/worth-more-than-computer-they-are.html
On the Tribes of Bitcoin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto:_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government%E2%80%94Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age
[page was last modified on 23 February 2011 at 06:26]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk
[page was last modified on 11 July 2011 at 14:44]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
[page was last modified on 14 August 2011 at 11:08]
Useful magazine:
Observations on money:
https://presentcynosure.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/bitcoin-and-trust/
Bitcoin not a system for anonymity:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524
Walter Bagehot's old standard work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street:_A_Description_of_the_Money_Market
[page was last modified on 17 May 2011 at 14:57]
Jay Sulzberger <secr...@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org