Tools

Financial

Warning: the proposal for fully automated management remains at FinancialTools.

(Purely) Virtual currency

freico.in a peer-to-peer digital currency delivering freedom from usury
- relying on bitcoin architecture principle
Ripple open decentralized payment network
Super Rewards virtual currency monetization platform for social publishers and online communities.

Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency

peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency.

official information
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
- #bitcoin-dev on freenode
intermediaries
- Mt Gox Bitcoin Exchange USD/BTC
- ClearCoin escrow
monitoring
- http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com
- http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/
local activities (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
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
- 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
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
Client notes
- bitcoind as CLI client
- for default client consider -datadir="/my/other/location"
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
- can it be technically stopped?
- still no review by Bruce Schneier
- impact of Lulsecz and TheSilkRoad

Ordered by size of capital and type (equity, loan, etc) or even source (LP, banks, crowd, etc).

Seed funding / Business angels

Y Combinator funding early stage startups
TechStars Seed capital and mentorship for startups
i/o ventures
Guide to Seed Fund Incubators (Y Combinator Clones) by Josh Catone, RWW 2008
Seed Incubator Panel: YCombinator, VentureHacks, Capital Factory, TechStars - ReadWriteStart at SXSW by Dana Oshiro, RWW March 2010
Open Angel Forum providing entrepreneurs with free and open access to the angel investors that they need.
Presumed Abundance
in France
- XMP Business Angels
- Les liens utiles de Réseau Entreprendre Paris with business angels and incubators in Paris and its region
Wiseed seed capital ensure
http://angelsoft.net/a/angel-investor

Venture capital

See also my notes VentureCapitalAndTheFinanceOfInnovation.

Videolectures category: Venture Capital
- Early-stage venture capital investing; shaping successful high tech startup companies towards accelerated exits by Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf from YL Ventures, WebStart 2008
Stanford
- Stanford Venture Capital Club
- STVP Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
Sequoia Capital Venture Capital Funding - Venture Capitalists
BBC Dragons' Den Entrepreneurs pitch for investment from some of Britain's top business brains
AngelList, Venture Hacks November 2009
Websites tagged with vc (venturecapital) by SitesLike
Capital Factory seed stage mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies.

Crowdfunding / P2P Finance

open money enables your community to create new types of money and use them to cultivate the kinds of wealth that really matter.
crowdfunding.fr blog by Malik Goulamhoussen
- example of specialized P2P investment : My Major Compagny
WeBank.org.uk
- While in the past web-enabled innovation in the sector meant online banking and web-access to front-end customer services, there is today a growing set of organisations which remove banks and other institutions as intermediaries altogether.
Kickstarter funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers...
- rediscovered with The Board Of Innovation - Business and revenue model innovation dedicated article
http://www.kisskissbankbank.com

Community funding for open projects

Open Source Hardware Bank
- focusing on open source electronics
Cofundos.org community innovation and funding
- focusing on open-source software
research funding
- Fund Science
- OpenScienceFund.org by jacob from diybio Houston
- will most likely focus on biotech
- see also http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-crowd-funding-website-service-for-scientific-research/

Social Lending and microfinance

Dr. Yunus and micro-credit received the nobel prize for peace in 2006 with P2P/Citizen Initiative growing on the web and p2pfoundation.net offering a rich starting point
PRETp2p - prêts de particulier à particulier / kiva.org / babyloan.fr (from iTele evening edition of the 14th of November)
as a solution to Money As Debt directed by Paul Grignon quoting at 32:05 :
- "If some people within this money supply begin systematically lending money at interest, their share of the money supply will grow. If they continually re loan at interests all the money that gets paid back, what's the inevitable result? Weather its gold, theater, dept money, doesn't matter, the money lenders will end up with all the money. And after the foreclosures and bankruptcies are all filled, they will get the real property too. '''Only if the processes of lending money at interests were evenly distributed amongst the population would the central problem be solved.'"
Kiva Loans that change lives U.S. 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Fabien Benetou's PIM