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Bitcoin and the future of cryptocurrency
The document discusses Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. It begins with an introduction to Bitcoin, explaining how it works as a decentralized digital currency using cryptography. It then covers topics like how Bitcoin is mined through solving complex math problems, the use of wallets and addresses, alternatives to Bitcoin like Litecoin, and possibilities for the future of cryptocurrency including widespread usage and higher valuation. The document aims to provide an overview of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency for educational purposes.
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- 1. Bitcoin & TheFuture of Cryptocurrency @Ben_Hall Ben@BenHall.me.uk Blog.BenHall.me.uk Hacker in Residence at #1seed
- 2. Agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. What is Bitcoinand how does it work? Integrating Bitcoin into your website Bitcoin Mining Alternatives & the future
- 7. AND NOT ASHIT WAS GIVEN
- 8. Intro to Cryptocurrencies “Acryptocurrency is a peer-topeer, decentralized, digital currency whose implementation relies on the principles of cryptography to validate the transactions and generation of the currency itself” ~ Wikipedia
- 9. Bitcoin • Bitcoin orBTC is an online currency that holds value in all countries and isn't controlled by banks. • “A new kind of money” Bitcoin.org • Trade to/from Fiat currencies
- 10. Bitcoin • Instant Peer-to-Peertransactions • Zero or low processing fees • Banks are scared.
- 11. Who created it? •Satoshi Nakamoto - pseudonymous person or group of people • Guardian person of the year 2013 • Paper == November 2008 • First “block” in January 2009 • Worked on it until 0.3.19
- 12. BIPs • BIP standsfor Bitcoin Improvement Proposal • https://github.com/bitcoin/bips • Current version is 0.8.5
- 13. Coin • • • • 1 BTC ==100m Satoshis. 0.00000001 BTC Current price for 1 BTC === $1073 Current price for 1 mBTC === $1.073 • Technically no bitcoins, only records of bitcoin transactions.
- 14. Transaction • An input.This is a record of which bitcoin address was used to send the bitcoins to Alice in the first place (she received them from her friend, Eve). • An amount. This is the amount of bitcoins that Alice is sending to Bob. • An output. This is Bob’s bitcoin address
- 15. Wallets • A walletis a computer file which holds Bitcoins. Bitcoins are sent between wallets; each is represented by one or more addresses.
- 16. Addresses • A wallet'sBitcoin address is a public identifier for sending money to that wallet, just like an email address directs email to your account. • Bitcoin addresses look like this: 1LF7MLgPVVTfa9ySp5UUWA7y4TGpNc6ny6.
- 17. Public / PrivateKey • Private key stored in wallet. Public key is your address. • Think SSH. • Lose your private key, you’re f—ked. Lose all bitcoins. • Who controls private key, controls bitcoin.
- 18. More than oneaddress • Each address should only be used for a single transaction. • Not enforced. • Single wallet handles all addresses
- 19. Storing coins • OnlineWallets – Likely to be hacked. • Mobile Wallets (Blockchain Wallet) • Paper Wallets / Cold Storage
- 20. THE ONLY REASONQR CODES EXIST?
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- 23. Making your firsttrade… • Create a wallet. Create an address. • Receive an amount from another address • Public block chain • https://blockchain.info/address/1BTCorgHwCg6u2YSA WKgS17qUad6kHmtQW
- 26. Double Spending • Double-spendingis the result of successfully spending some money more than once. • Bitcoin protects against double spending by verifying each transaction added to the block chain to ensure that the inputs for the transaction had not previously already been spend • The block chain is a shared public ledger
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- 33. Buying Bitcoin • https://quickbitcoin.co.uk/ •https://bitbargain.co.uk/buy • REALLY DIFFICULT!
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- 37. Simple as givingsomeone a QR code • Blockchain API • Callback to site when money transferred
- 38. Generating Receiving Addresses •https://blockchain.info/api/receive?method=crea te&address=$receiving_address&callback=$callb ack_url • { "fee_percent":0, "destination":"1A8JiWcwvpY7tA opUkSnGuEYHmzGYfZPiq", "input_address":"1KZ oUuPWFAeyVySHAGqvTUDoX6P3ntuLNF", "callba ck_url":"http://yoururl.com" }
- 39. Implementing The Callback •value – The value of the payment received in satoshi. Divide by 100000000 to get the value in BTC. • input_address – The bitcoin address that received the transaction. • confirmations – The number of confirmations of this transaction. • {Custom Parameters} – Any parameters included in the callback URL will be passed back to the callback URL in the notification. • transaction_hash – The transaction hash. • input_transaction_hash – The original paying in hash before forwarding. • destination_address – The destination bitcoin address. Check this matches your address.
- 40. Aim for 6.Why 6? Stop double spending. CONFIRMATIONS
- 41. Blockchain API • https://blockchain.info/api/ •Realtime notifications • https://blockchain.info/api/api_websocket • Get transaction details • http://blockchain.info/rawtx/$tx_hash
- 42. Bitcoin JS • BitcoinJSis a set of open-source libraries designed to let you quickly realize your custom Bitcoin project • Highly optimized version of the node, i.e. the P2P part of Bitcoin. Its main intended use is as a server component to give lighter clients access to the data in the block chain (in real-time.) • https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-server
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- 44. Vanity Bitcoin Addresses •Vanitygen command line tool • ./vanitygen 1Seed • 1Seed9wVtrKZTBbAZqz1XiTmboYyvpD3t • Bruteforce. Generates millions, returns only the ones matching prefix.
- 45. Price? • Gets confusing. •Need to keep changing to reflect exchange • 0.4595 BTC • 1 BTC === 1000 mBTC • 459 mBTC
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- 47. What are youmining for? • Mining is the process of adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public ledger of past transactions. • As a reward for their services, Bitcoin miners can collect transaction fees for the transactions they confirm, along with newly created bitcoins
- 48. Searching for acoin • Only 21m in total. Currently 12m mined. • Once all mined then transaction fees will be incentive. • Need miners for network to work.
- 49. 1. New transactionsare broadcast to all nodes. 2. Each miner node collects new transactions into a block. 3. Each miner node works on finding a difficult proof-ofwork for its block. 4. When a node finds a proof-of-work, it broadcasts the block to all nodes. 5. New bitcoins are successfully collected or "mined" by the receiving node which found the proof-of-work. 6. Nodes accept the block only if all transactions in it are valid and not already spent. 7. Nodes express their acceptance of the block by working on creating the next block in the chain, using the hash of the accepted block as the previous hash. 8. Repeat.
- 51. Mining for bitcoins •Difficulty is a measure of how difficult it is to find a new block compared to the easiest it can ever be. • Changes every 2016 blocks. • Blocks just keep getting added to the end of the chain at an average rate of one every 10 minutes
- 52. Hash Rate • Thehash rate is the measuring unit of the processing power of the Bitcoin network • Current network hash rate is 6,618,000 GH/s • 1 GH/s is 1,000,000,000 hashes per second.
- 54. Hardware • ASIC (Application-specificintegrated circuits) chipsets – do one thing and one thing only. Mine bitcoins (SHA256 cryptocurrencies) • No-one uses GPU now. • Speed measured in hashrate • 30 GH/s = 0.0213 BTC in 24 hours. • 3000 GH/s = 2.155 BTC in 24 hours.
- 56. Kncminer Neptune -$12,995.00 Breakeven == 12 days? 3 month profit = $133k ?
- 58. DAYS OF RUNNINGIT ON A LAPTOP ARE OVER :’(
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- 60. 42 different variations •Bitcoin algorithm based on SHA256 • Litecoin based on Scrypt • Litecoin is Silver to Bitcoins Gold.
- 61. Litecoin • Currently $30 •Litecoin ASIC Mining hasn’t been released yet. • Difficulty much lower. More potential profit?
- 62. When Bitcoin sneezes,the altcoins catch a cold
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- 64. Bitcoin all theway down Reddit.
- 65. Money Transfer • WesternUnion, M-Pesa etc. • All irrelevant.
- 66. Icecoin The future forIceland too?
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- 68. 9 months aheadof schedule.
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