Name: BitDevs Socratic Style Meetup 16
Start: 2014-03-25T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2014-03-25T22:00:00-04:00
Location: NYU-Poly

For those of you interested, there is a one day academic conference happening at Princeton Thursday which will have panels/talks with Gavin, Peter Todd, Gregory Maxwell, Matthew Green, Andrew Miller and other heavy hitters in the crypto / bitcoin / alt coin space. You can check out the details and RSVP here, it's free: https://citp.princeton.edu/event/bitcoin/

Core Dev:

0.9.0 Released
https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/README.txt

OP_RETURN reduced to 40 bytes, beefin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761.msg5815887#msg5815887
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04363.html

Network Hashrate Stats + Unknown miners
http://organofcorti.blogspot.de/2014/03/march-23rd-2014-weekly-hashrate.html
http://organofcorti.blogspot.de/2014/03/181-who-owns-1htm4tysxf5yzklpco6mtuunfs.html

Pull requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3939
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3912
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3889
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3860

bitcoinj - Payment protocol experiments: BIP72 via Bluetooth and signing
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/bitcoinj/kW-8SbAFZMI/Z6mnyInWHvoJ (https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/bitcoinj/kW-8SbAFZMI/Z6mnyInWHvoJ)

Pybitcointools 1.1.6
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/212yee/pybitcointoolspybtctool_your_universal_python/

Electrum 1.9.8 Released + some issues / 2 of 3 escrow / Multi Factor Backups
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=518133.new
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/4323 (see: greg's reply)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/212tcp/fragmented_backups_in_electrum_guide/

Armory .91 Beta, testers needed
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=522866.0

Bitcore Browser Roller
http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/03/18/introducing-the-bitcore-browser-roller.html

Attacks against SHA-256 and redesign of the block header?
http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/the-re-design-of-the-bitcoin-block-header/

Someone's impersonating Gavin (PGP keys)
http://gavintech.blogspot.de/2014/03/it-aint-me-ive-got-pgp-imposter.html

Canadian Bitcoins 'hacked'
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Ottawa+bitcoin+exchange+defrauded+cyber+currency/9628321/story.html

Alts/Tools/Misc
Mixcoin
http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/077

Permacoin
http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/permacoin.pdf (http://cs.umd.edu/%7Eamiller/permacoin.pdf)

Ethereum
http://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/20/the-latest-evm-ethereum-is-a-trust-free-closure-system/
http://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/20/the-question-of-mining/

NimbleCoin (will actually go over it this week) / MinCen Protocol / Block optimizations
http://nimblecoin.com/
http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/mincen-a-new-protocol-to-achieve-instant-payments/#comment-2434
http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/5-sec-block-interval/

Altcoin Idea
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/79783931404/idea-of-a-useful-altcoin

Pay-to-Revoke
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=525317.0

Malleability, deposits and atomic cross chain transfers
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=515370.0

Implementation of Bitcoin in Objective-C
https://github.com/oleganza/CoreBitcoin

C# Bitcoin Node (alpha!)
https://github.com/pmlyon/BitSharp

Block Explorer (Go)
https://github.com/tsileo/btcplex

Proof of Liabilities (Clojure, Ruby)
https://github.com/zw/PoLtree
https://github.com/peatio/liability-proof

Watch only addresses in bitcoind
http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2014/03/18/watch_only_wallet/?v=1

Block Parser (C++)
https://github.com/znort987/blockparser

Price Correlator (lol)
http://www.kimonolabs.com/bitcoin/correlator

Coinmetrics
http://www.coinometrics.com/bitcoin/mix

Reality Keys
https://www.realitykeys.com/

Conformal (authors of btcd, Go implementaiton of bitcoin) is looking for interns
https://blog.conformal.com/2014-summer-internships-hacking-on-bitcoin-with-go/

Michael Wozniak:
https://github.com/wozz/bitmsg_webui

Remember to bring topics you would like to discuss; if you are interested in presenting just reply to this email and let me know.

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