Notes 2014-06-22
Event description
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How often to meet?
- Once a week or fortnight.
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What will you be doing at your Meetup?
- Reading, understanding and changing the source code of bitcoin.
- Runnin bitcoin on testnet to test various features.
- Learning bitcoin protocol in details (specification, sniffer).
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What will it be like?
- A number of people sitting in one space, each with his laptop.
- Having a constant discussion about high and low level details.
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Who's presenting? What will they present?
- I will try to present a gist of Bitcoin news.
- Anyone can present a Bitcoin-related subject in a short talk.
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Do members need to bring anything?
- Bring laptops: everyone needs to bring a laptop
- Participation fee: Should we charge 10 NIS per meeting for pizza and drinks?
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Who should come? Are newcomers welcome?
- Anyone with technical interest in Bitcoin.
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How will members benefit from coming to your Meetup?
- Deep knowledge on Bitcoin and related technology.
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How long will the Meetup be?
- Each meetup 2-3 hours.
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Is it okay to arrive late?
- Yes, but discouraged.
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Changes
- Organizational changes will be accomodated as we go forward.
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Bitcoin as money
- Has money charachteristics
- Decentralized
- 51% attack cost
- Current hash power
- Current businesses accepting bitcoins
- Current private participants
- Investment money for last two years
- Number of bitcoin startups
- Number of other crypto-currencies
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Blockchain and Bitcoin 2.0
- Incentives
- Ethereum
- Mastercoin
- Namecoin
- Darkcoin
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Source code
- Open source on github (using git)
- Basic transaction (pay-to-address)
- Bitcoin script language
- Bitcoin transaction block
- Serialization
- Wallet (Berkeley DB)
- RCP
- Blockchain
- Merkle tree
- BitcoinQT