Bitcoin {Tools}

Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency.

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Official information

• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto
• https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
• #bitcoin-dev on freenode

Monitoring

• http://www.google.com/finance?q=CURRENCY%3ABTC
• http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com
• http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/
• http://coinmap.org
• http://fiatleak.com
• http://www.sellingonthegoodnews.com
• bitcoin-days-destroyed from blockchain.info
• http://dustcoin.com/mining with alternative currencies and network hashrates
• http://bitlegal.io

Local activities

• Brussels
  • http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Brussels/
• Paris
  • BITCOIN Workshop by Renaud Lifchitz, CRI June 2011
    • http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11384.0 by nono2357 (@nono2357, github)

Research

• An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System by Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan, July 2011
• http://www.crypto.edu.pl/publications
• Cryptology ePrint Archive
• Session 11: Bitcoin Anonymity at FC'14 : Financial Cryptography 2014 Conference

Regulation

• Internet architecture and the layers principle: a conceptual framework for regulating Bitcoin by Andy Yee, Internet Policy Review August 2014

Discussions

• http://forum.bitcoin.org
  • Les problèmes du bitcoin, May 2011
• Is BitCoin the currency of the future?, The Mises Community 2009
• mapping the transactions graph @random_walker solved by @benadida and @phyrexianslug answers
• http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin
  • http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/What-is-the-likelihood-of-a-virtual-currency-like-Bitcoin-going-mainstream
  • http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea

News

• http://HistoryOfBitcoin.org
• Bowling for Bitcoins, The Bitcoin Bulletin
• @BitcoinAnalyst
• Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin by Rick Falkvinge, Falkvinge on Infopolicy May 2011
• L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen, Launch May 2011
  • see LO20 with interviews of members of the dev. team

Vulgarizatoin/facilitation

• the Bitcoin Faucet offering "Free Bitcoins"
• WeUseCoins's YouTube channel‬‏, Explaining Bitcoin one video at a time
• BitcoinJS
• MyBitcoin A web-based transaction processor for Bitcoin
• Wikipedia:Bitcoin
• How a Bitcoin transaction works infographic
• How the blockchain works infographic

Client notes

• bitcoind as CLI client
• for default client consider -datadir="/my/other/location"
• Linux shell commands for Bitcoin
  • http://talkera.org/wpTalkera/linux-shell-commands-for-bitcoin-part-ii/

Trading

• python2-krakenex Python2 API Client for the Kraken exchange
• CryptoTrader with strategies marketplace
• https://)tradewave.net

Own questions

• why is there no web seed since the result can be checked against a hash from the DHT anyway?
  • seems possible via http://bitcoin.bluematt.me/bitcoin-nightly/blockchain-nightly/ (cf http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19296.0 ) yet the -rescan option is not supported now thus making it risky unless downloading from a trusted source
• is it possible to detect JS on websites trying to "hijack" cycles?
  • or bandwidth? Seedea:Content/Predictions#p2pJavascript
• what happens when the recipient client of a transaction is offline?
  • added to a distributed index of pending transactions?
    • yes
• despite bridges of currency exchange, the only problem of all those smart solutions is that the utility of a currency is relative to its popularity and overall the smartest the solution, the lower the popularity... unlike a collaborative search system for example where elitism can have positive effects
  • thus have to consider the competition of currency?
  • yet more adapted to specific usages? e.g. TheSilkRoad following Seedea:Research/Drive
  • ...but as those last weeks show there seem to be a direct link between popularity and value
• can it really take-off with users current understanding (and willingness to learn) about security?
  • unlike a credit-card insured by a bank the money lost here remains so
    • e.g. The darker side of bitcoin, Rondam Ramblings June 2011
  • what is the lifetime expectancy of a BitCoin wallet on the average computer?
• will equivalent of Wikipedia:Torpig appear?
  • cf http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/06/new-malware-steals-your-bitcoin.ars
  • yes, cf Pony
• can it be technically stopped?
• still no review by Bruce Schneier
  • to be fixed, plenty since
• impact of Lulsecz and TheSilkRoad
• how does Eric J. Chaisson's FERD framework evaluates the bitcoin network?
  • cf http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6328
• would explicit trickle down economics work?
  • split
    • fixed decided by the creators
    • flexible decided by the payer(s)
  • can provide templates
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ka9jj/L/clunabq
• how to encode text in transaction? (using e.g. https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools )
  • data in an op_return output
    • example http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35958/how-do-i-compose-a-transaction-with-op-return-in-python
    • as of May 2015 the raw hashes and names of this wiki is already more than 40kb (87kb)
      • 24kb compressed via bzip2
  • see also https://blocksign.com

Blockchain programming

• ethereum http://www.ethereum.org/
  • https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/[English]-White-Paper#wiki-financial-derivatives|whitepaper
  • using its own blockchain
  • https://github.com/WeMeetAgain/ethereum-example-contracts
  • http://bitcongress.org
  • http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/505/writing-smart-contracts-faq-live-updates#latest
  • EtherScripter http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/713/etherscripter-a-visual-smart-contract-builder
• bitcoin https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts
  • https://www.realitykeys.com ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423638.0 )
  • https://www.bitrated.com
• contract on health data
  • http://www.withings.com/en/api
  • http://forum.ethereum.org/categories/services-and-decentralized-applications
  • more generally PBES, see also Cognition#GoalFocusAttention
• http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/22139/mine-valid-but-nonstandard-transactions
  • http://eligius.st as a mining pool allowing non conventional transactions
• http://ledracapital.com/blog/2014/3/11/bitcoin-series-24-the-mega-master-blockchain-list
• The concept of The Blockchain, Coinscrum March 2014
• ByMyCoin as suggested to RealityKey
  • https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=786587.new#new

Consider an equivalent of Programming#LearningAndTeaching

See also notes in

• BitcoinFabelier
• Mathematics#OneWayFunction
• RMLL-LSM
• WithoutNotesApril11#JerryBrito
• WithoutNotesMay11#Bitcoin
• WithoutNotesJune11
• related proposal in Electronics#Recipes, see Bitbills transfer bitcoins in person
• my first mention of BitCoin on this wiki was on March 2010
• Economy#SimulationBasedStudies
• mutuelles de fraudeurs
  • e.g. http://mutuelledesfraudeursdelille.over-blog.org/

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.