BitDevs Socratic (Discussion/Presentation) Style Meetup 12

Core dev:

• Redecentralization: building a robust cryptocurrency developer network (https://blog.conformal.com/redecentralization-robust-developer-network/)

• Scripts, in depth (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D_gi_7Sf9sOyAHG25cMpOO4xtLq3iJUtjRwcZXFLv1E/)

• discussion: reusable addresses with identity based encryption (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=431756.0)

• Let's talk Bitcoin Adam Back interview (creator of HashCash, the inspiration for Bitcoin's POW) - committed tx, homomorphic value, fungibility, privacy (http://letstalkbitcoin.com/e77-the-adam-back-interview/)

• .9rc1 - open issues that need to be resolved before release (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues?milestone=12&state=open)

• Stealth addresses don't scale to SPV nodes. An alternative name, static. (https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03694.html)

• Bait for reusable addresses - help with SPV node privacy, a proposal (https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03705.html)

• BIP 0032 - HD Wallets, wiki rewrite (more readable) (https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip32update/bip-0032.mediawiki)

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cryptocurrency related

• Ethereum - Comments and concerns (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=udgunjj0u8l6bavud1hfoha7j7&topic=431513.0)

ethereum's Dagger POW flawed? (http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/ethereum-dagger-pow-is-flawed/)

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tools:

bitc (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428765.0)
andytoshi's coinjoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=432121.0)
Bitcoin MultiSig (https://rawgithub.com/OutCast3k/bitcoin-multisig/master/index.html#)

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Presentations:

• Steve B - Secure Bitcoin Storage on a bootable USB (hardened host OS for wallet, jailed VM for general computing)

• Ryan Shea - coinkit (https://github.com/halfmoonlabs/coinkit)