About Bitcoin ------------- http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Satoshi Nakamoto's paper 2009 Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System http://www.bitcoin.org/ http://www.weusecoins.com/ http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/static/faq.html http://bitcoinwatch.com/ Shows how many BTCs exist. Right now there are 6,603,000 BTC (20110621) http://blockexplorer.com/a/8d7f1vDvvw Disects components of the Bitcoin block chain. http://www.thebitcoinlist.com/ http://realtimebitcoin.info/ Forums on Bitcoin ------------------ http://forum.bitcoin.org/ http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin http://bitcoinforums.net www.tweetforum.com/bitcoin twitter.com/bitcoinforum Bitcoin markets --------------- https://mtgox.com/ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade http://www.tradehill.com/ Bitcoin Banks ------------- http://flexcoin.com/ "First bitcoin bank" started around June 23 2011. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto is the founder of Bitcoin and initial author of the Original Bitcoin client. He has said in a p2p foundation profile[1] that he is from Japan. Beyond that, not much is known about him. He has been working on Bitcoin since 2007. His involvement in the Bitcoin project had tapered and by late 2010 it has ended. The most recent messages reportedly indicate that Satoshi is "gone for good". (A mystery man is the founder. Fantastic.) Some interesting quotes: "Yes, [we will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography,] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years." "Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.[4] It's very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I'm better with code than with words though. [5]" Possible identity His identity and nationality are unknown. The few bits of information available[1] about him point to Japan, he never wrote a single line of Japanese, the Bitcoin client has no Japanese version and there is no Japanese page on bitcoin.org. He is entirely unknown outside of Bitcoin as far as anyone can tell, and his PGP key was created just months prior to the date of the genesis block. He seems to be very familiar with the cryptography mailing list, but there are no non-Bitcoin posts from him on it. He has used an email address from an anonymous mail hosting service (vistomail) as well as one from a free webmail account (gmx.com) and sends mail when connected via Tor. Some have speculated that his entire identity was created in advance in order to protect himself or the network. Perhaps he chose the name Satoshi because it can mean "wisdom" or "reason". http://blockexplorer.com/address/1KLahQtqDNAXvrjNyfvgSBtAhwco5ZxLp4 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transactions 20110601 http://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/2011/05/31/resources-are-being-utterly-and-completely-wasted-on-mining-bitcoins/ Resources are being utterly and completely wasted on mining Bitcoins Posted on 2011/05/31 by randy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo What is Bitcoin? 20110602 http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea/answer/Adam-Cohen-2 Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611281 thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2612470 my comment https://mtgox.com/trade/megaChart Mt. Gox - 24/7 Bitcoin Exchange https://www.bitcoinmarket.com/ 20110603 http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/6100385027/eff-bitcoin-donation-review EFF rejects Bitcoin donations http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/silkroad/ Underground Website Lets You Buy Any Drug Imaginable (using TOR and Bitcoin) Darnit! WRH posted an article showing that TOR appears to have been designed by the US Navy. In which case the entire structure - TOR, Bitcoin, and everything else built on TOR - are probably honeypots. But I missed saving the reference. Google 'tor us navy' - plenty on this. For eg: http://cryptome.org/0003/tor-spy.htm TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker 20110607 http://tav.espians.com/why-bitcoin-will-fail-as-a-currency.html 20110609 http://maxkeiser.com/2011/06/08/is-bitcoin-the-currency-of-the-resistance/ Is Bitcoin the currency of resistance? Here is an in depth article on Bitcoin: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/bitcoin-inside-the-encrypted-peer-to-peer-currency.ars We interview Swedish Pirate Founder Rick Falkvinge in the second half and were going to talk to him about the fact that he converted all of his savings to Bitcoin. Alas, we never got a chance this interview but we’ll interview him again in the next week or two to find out specifically why he did this and Max will not ask him any other questions but about his decision to do this! [Also, anyone concerned about Bitcoin, not to worry because Wall Street's man in the Senate - Chuck Schumer - is co-sponsoring a bill to ban Bitcoin.] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-financial-bitcoitre7573t3-20110608,0,6328122.story Recall also that, in our interview with Jon Matonis, he predicted that Bitcoin would become more valuable/legitimate if politicians tried to ban it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHcS_UvRxCM Here is the LibertarianNews’ response to the immediate hostility by the gold crowd to Bitcoin. http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/06/libertarian-goldbugs-hating-on-bitcoin-free-market-money/ http://youtu.be/so1x4hunlII Max Keiser - Bitcoin is the currency of resistance. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-financial-bitcoins-idUSTRE7573T320110608 Senators seek crackdown on "Bitcoin" currency Two senators are pressing federal authorities to crack down on an online black market and "untraceable" digital currency known as Bitcoins after reports that they are used to buy illegal drugs anonymously. WRH: Cash is also untraceable and used to buy drugs, so that is clearly not the issue here. and indeed any alternative currency system, is a direct threat to the enslavement of the American people by the privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank. The Ponzi-scheme bankers know full well that a popularly adopted alternative currency system will draw people and resources away from the central bank, which is already on the verge of collapse and cannot survive a run on deposits. So these Senators are not really interested in the drug issue but in preserving the financial status-quo. I really wasn't paying attention to the bitcoin issue, but now that these Senators have come out against it, the "Banned in Boston" effect has kicked in and I will be paying more more attention! 20110612 http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/2/?xid=fblike Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks The Bitcoin digital currency also works a lot like cash in that it's anonymous. When you go to a flea market and pay cash for an old Commodore 64, there's no record of the transaction. You don't have to know the seller's name, and the seller doesn't need to know yours. Digital currencies by contrast rely on accounts, and have to collect at least some information about you. Because Bitcoin employs no such accounts and instead relies on public key cryptography, there's no way to know, just looking at the database of transfers, who sent money to whom. Webmaster's Commentary: WRH: The BitCoin concept itself looks like a great way to operate free of private central banking and I am not surprised to see so many old-style central bankers and their pet congresscritters angry and upset that We The People might actually break free of the bankers' enslavement. Nor, given the abuses by the aforesaid central bankers and their pet congresscritters, am I surprised to see how quickly BitCoin has become popular. But.... After being shown a BitCoin mining server by the folks at PC Gamerz, I am puzzled. As I joked with them, they are tying up $5000 worth of computer for $10 worth of (a piece of) a BitCoin. I am not sure that even covers the increase in the electric bill here in Hawaii, and with the short life-span of computer equipment sold here in the USA, the attrition on those GPU cards must be factored in. Here is my problem. The BitCoin mining software uses a LOT of computer power for what we are told is a simple peer-to-peer cash system. Peer-to-peer file sharing does not require that kind of raw compute power. Neither does the level of digital signing the peer-to-peer cash system claims to use. There is a huge amount of computer power being expended on other unknown tasks. Some articles on just how BitCoins are awarded speak of "solving blocks", and therein lies my concern. As a part of the mining for BitCoins, a huge amount of computer power is being spent on cryptographic processing of these blocks, and nobody really knows for certain what is inside those blocks. I am concerned that the BitCoin miner, along with passing BitCoins hither and yon, is actually a vast distributed code key-breaker, as I cannot think of anything else requiring that kind of computer power (as NSA's rumored expenditure on exaflop computers suggests). With enough raw computer power chained together in a few million BitCoin users, brute-force breaking of the keys of asymmetric encryption becomes achievable, even convenient. Great if the perps are reading Iran's government communications or congressional "Sexting" messages, but not so great if the target is banks, SSH transactions, https, utilities, your corporate server, and secured emails. Modern computer crime has become very sophisticated, and cyber-criminals (and the NSA) would not hesitate to exploit a popular new peer-to-peer cash system to create a vast distributed key-breaking system. 20110614 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=21877 Digital Black Friday: First Bitcoin "Depression" Hits Jason Mick (Blog) - June 10, 2011 20110616 http://www.zgeek.com/content.php/7879-Alleged-500-000US-in-Bitcoins-stolen#new_comment http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/bitcoin-the-decentralized-virtual-currencyrisky-currency-500000-bitcoin-heist-raises-questions.ars A risky currency? Alleged $500,000 Bitcoin heist raises questions 20110617 http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/bitcoin-botnet-mining Bitcoin Botnet Mining Evaluation of costs/earnings from using botnets for bitcoin mining. http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-bitcoins-are-ours Malware authors move fast. Following on from the previous blog post on Bitcoin botnet mining, we have seen a recent Trojan in the wild targeting Bitcoin wallets. The Trojan is Infostealer.Coinbit and it has one motive: to locate your Bitcoin wallet.dat file and email it to the attacker. This is not surprising considering the potential values in a Bitcoin wallet. We have also discovered source code on underground forums which locates the wallet and, using FTP, uploads it to the attacker's servers. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/trading-over-counter-gold-and-silver-be-illegal-beginning-july-15#comment-1382028 Bitcoin does have some disadvantages, but it has some serious advantages too: A genuine free market currency that can't be inflated (in fact has built in deflation), potentially unlimited divisibility, is very very difficult to forge or cheat, has almost anonymous usage (use tor if you want privacy), has ZERO transaction costs, fast transactions, and that is a lot going for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygoqDBfjimM&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcchQs2YDZ0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_VewfiuCao 20110620 http://bitcoin-money.blogspot.com/2011/06/bitcoin-market-hacked-crashes-to-below.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1X6qQt9ONg http://www.zgeek.com/content.php/7917 Mt. Gox hacked, Bitcoins and Passwords Stolen, Mucho Butthurt All Around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkwsyH489z0&feature=related Bitcoins Office Series Part 1 by http://www.youtube.com/user/BitcoinChannel http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i41jl/since_the_whole_mtgox_customer_list_has_been http://pastebin.com/w06pa2mB (part 1 of ?. Search 'mtgox'. Many related files being deleted.) Supposedly the entire user database: (gone) https://rapidshare.com/#!download|359l35|1969319443|accounts.csv|4023|R~0) The flie has been removed from our servers because it contained one or more of the following matters: * Child pornography * Works the download of which violates third party copyrights * Racist or violence-glorifying works * Instructions for criminal offenses against public order 20110621 http://www.zgeek.com/content.php/7917-Mt.-Gox-hacked-Bitcoins-and-Passwords-Stolen-Mucho-Butthurt-All-Around#new_comment http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20207.0 Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Bitcoin Discussion > I'm Kevin, here's my side. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?board=39.0 Newbies forum. Bitcoin Forum > Other > Newbies http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jun/417 More plausible mtgox.com post-mortem (Bitcoin fun week!) From: Doug Huff Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:17:49 -0500 I have two independent sources claiming known SQLi vulnerabilities in MtGox. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jun/418 Oh ya, forgot this tidbit. Thanks gmaxwell!: Not mentioned here is that fact that dozens of MTGOX hashed passwords were quietly disclosed on a hash cracking forum on Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:21 am (http://forum.insidepro.com/viewtopic.php?t=9124&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=75&sid=1a9e31567fe815c0eea63c40c39fb707 post by "georgeclooney") MagicalTux = Mark Karpeles = Owner of MtGox. (Mark Karpelčs) http://twitter.com/#!/magicaltux Mark Karpeles @MagicalTux Kugayama, Tokyo, Japan http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20501.0 It's obvious MagicalTux is the user who had his account hacked! Today at 07:35:41 am How can you people have not seen this yet??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0XvP841jaM&feature=player_embedded#at=925 Interview with Mark Karpeles, re the MtGox hack/crash. His accent is...? French? "Watch his reaction at 15:25 to being asked if the hacked account belonged to him. Shock, panic then damage control! If the account that was compromised didn't belong to him why wouldn't he have strongly denied it?? Can anyone think of ANY REASON why they wouldn't deny it if it wasn't true?" http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogwrap The Bitcoin Show 20110623 http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=21026.0;all Non-Verbal Analysis of statements by Mark and Dave (MtGox) Key point: yes the 500K btc did belong to MtGox http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i4xgc/follow_the_money_trail_part_2_1500btc_generated/ Follow the money trail, part 2: 1500BTC generated from 2009 remain untouched... until a day before MtGox gets hacked. They are then merged with the wallet that MtGox supposedly has control of after the hack. Care to explain, MagicalTux? http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/secret-money-abc-virtual-currency-racket-probe-20110623-1ggp6.html http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=21442.0 Wikipedia wants to delete Satoshi Nakamoto page. HELP!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Satoshi_Nakamoto 20111006 http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-reporter-just-solve-the-bitcoin-mystery Did A Reporter Just Solve A Bitcoin Mystery? Whoever created bitcoin, it's clear that he (or she, or they) is/are a very clever coder with a deep understanding of cryptography. An expert tells the New Yorker writer that someone with Satoshi's skills would probably be at Crypto2011, the most important cryptography conference. The writer also notes that Satoshi typically uses British (rather than American) spellings. So he narrows the field to people from the UK at Crypto2011. He finds one compelling candidate: A guy named Michael Clear. 20130322 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-21/us-begins-regulating-bitcoin-will-consider-virtual-transactions-money-laundering US Begins Regulating BitCoin, Will Apply "Money Laundering" Rules To Virtual Transactions Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2013 - 21:22 Last November, in an act of sheer monetary desperation, the ECB issued an exhaustive, and quite ridiculous, pamphlet titled "Virtual Currency Schemes" in which it mocked and warned about the "ponziness" of such electronic currencies as BitCoin. Why a central bank would stoop so "low" to even acknowledge what no "self-respecting" (sic) PhD-clad economist would even discuss, drunk and slurring, at cocktail parties, remains a mystery to this day. However, that it did so over fears the official artificial currency of the insolvent continent, the EUR, may be becoming even more "ponzi" than the BitCoins the ECB was warning about, was clear to everyone involved who saw right through the cheap propaganda attempt. Feel free to ask any Cypriot if they would now rather have their money in locked up Euros, or in "ponzi" yet freely transferable, unregulated BitCoins. And while precious metals have been subject to price manipulation by the legacy establishment, even if ultimately the actual physical currency equivalent asset, its "value" naively expressed in some paper currency, may be in the possession of the beholder, to date no price suppression or regulation schemes of virtual currencies existed. At least until now: it appears that the ever-benevolent, and always knowing what is "in your best interest" Big Brother has decided to finally take a long, hard look at what is going on in the world of BitCoin... and promptly crush it. 20130414 http://dailybail.com/home/bitcoin-down-50-in-massive-sell-off-1-billion-vaporized.html 20130412 http://au.businessinsider.com/dan-kaminsky-highlights-flaws-bitcoin-2013-4 I Tried Hacking Bitcoin And I Failed 20130503 https://www.khanacademy.org/science/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-w7SnQWwVA&feature=player_embedded How Bitcoin works - high level summary 20130624 http://letstalkbitcoin.com/post/53700133097/users-bitcoins-seized-by-dea Users Bitcoins Seized by DEA The Drug Enforcement Administration posted an Official Notification that Bitcoin (i.e. property) belonging to Eric Daniel Hughes was seized for forfeiture pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881, because the property was used or acquired as a result of a violation of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. §§ 801 et seq.) 20130630 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/06/how-a-total-n00b-mined-700-in-bitcoins/ 20130713 http://lfb.org/today/money-can-and-should-be-private-property/ 20130729 https://bitcoin.co.th/trading-suspended-due-to-bank-of-thailand-advisement/?bettertitle 20130815 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/13/congress-starts-investigating-bitcoin/ Congress starts investigating Bitcoin Bitcoin, the once-obscure virtual currency, is getting attention from the most mainstream of all institutions: Congress. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, Thomas Carper (D-Del.) and his Republican counterpart Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have announced plans to begin probing the virtual currency and the regulatory regime that governs it. WRH: "How DARE you use a currency that is not borrowed at interest from the Federal Reserve!!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse 20140205 http://tarangill.com/2014/02/03/bitcoin-networks-computing-power/ Bitcoin hash-rate exceeds total computing power of all the world’s computers! Posted on February 3, 2014 by Tarandeep Gill Bitcoin’s hash-rate (the total computing power of the network, defined as number of SHA-256 hashes it can compute per second) has most likely exceeded the total computing power of all the world’s computers. It’s an estimate that there are about 2 billion personal computers in the world. I would assume that the average hash-rate of these computers is about 10 MegaHash. 20 Billion MegaHash = 20,000,000,000 MegaHash = 20,000,000 GigaHash = 20,000 TerraHash = 20 PetaHash. The current hash-rate (at the time of writing this article) is a little over 20 PetaHash. So, most likely the Bitcoin network’s hash-rate has exceeded the total computation power of all the personal computers in this world combined! 20140205 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=448847.0 WARNING: PAYPAL STARTED MASSIVE ACCOUNT BAN ON ANYTHING BITCOIN RELATED 20140207 http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/02/06/apple-bitcoin/ Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps? 20140305 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497289.0 Peter R's theory on the collapse of MtGox and its effect on the price of bitcoin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7343796 GKD comment: When bitcoin started it was touted as anonymous, reliable and secure against fraud and theft by central authorities (especially government.) I had some doubts (and other interests) so didn't bother getting into bitcoins. Now we find out that bitcoin definitely isn't secure, and fraud by central authorities is just as possible as with *any* complex system of representing monetary value. I really think it's a universal Law - let there be any kind of central body involved in a system where there are profits to be made by dishonesty, and there WILL be dishonesty. MtGox turns out to be no different to the FED and any other fiat money authority. No different to the bullion markets, and their empty gold vaults (gold stolen, due to fractional reserve fraud.) I think I'll stick to keeping gold and silver pieces in an old sock. The only true value store is in-your-hand allodial, and never, ever abstracted to ones and zeros (or paper.) 20140614 http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/13/time-for-a-hard-bitcoin-fork/ It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork A Bitcoin mining pool, called GHash and operated by an anonymous entity called CEX.io, just reached 51% of total network mining power today. Bitcoin is no longer decentralized. GHash can control Bitcoin transactions. Is This Really Armageddon? Yes, it is. GHash is in a position to exercise complete control over which transactions appear on the blockchain and which miners reap mining rewards. They could keep 100% of the mining profits to themselves if they so chose. Bitcoin is currently an expensive distributed database under the control of a single entity, albeit one whose maintenance requires constantly burning energy -- worst of all worlds. 20151029 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-28/need-smuggle-10-million-out-china-just-call-mr-chen http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/volumepie/ 20151210 https://www.rt.com/news/325194-australian-police-bitcoin-creator/ Australian police raid home of possible bitcoin creator – report 9 Dec, 2015 Police in Australia have raided the Sydney home of a man identified by Wired magazine as the possible creator of bitcoin, according to a Reuters witness. Over a dozen officers entered the place to “clear” it, they said. The property is registered to Craig Steven Wright, the person Wired and Gizmodo technology websites reported as the likely real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonymous personality who created bitcoin in 2009. Wired described him as the 45-year-old “climate-change denier, a serial entrepreneur ... and an eccentric.” 20151214 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/bitcoin-mystery-sydney-founder-sold-85m-in-currency-for-gold/news-story/c7b3b40de5b297e7c80f309f1f3c6df7 Bitcoin mystery: Sydney ‘founder’ sold $85m in currency for gold 20170607 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-06/clint-eastwoods-advice-bitcoin-speculation http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/cryptocurrency-is-anyone-on-board/ http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-05/crypto-cornucopia-part-1-bitcoin-trust-machine Part 1 "Bitcoin Is A Trust Machine" here. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-06/crypto-cornucopia-part-2-system-garbage-how-do-we-fix-it Part 2 "This System Is Garbage, How Do We Fix It?" here. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-08/crypto-cornucopia-part-3-system-no-justice-no-order-no-rules-no-predictability Crypto-Cornucopia Part 3 - "A System With No Justice, No Order, No Rules, & No Predictability" 20171210 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-09/if-you-dont-own-any-bitcoin-read If You Don't Own Any Bitcoin, Read This 20171219 http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index2455.htm Russia Issues First In History 'Planet Killer' Alert—Warns World Has Only Two Years Left 20210409 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QZ_LsYcvcq7qOsOhpAX4A channel: cold fusion Two part series on Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W15A7Lf0_fI Where Did Bitcoin Come From? – The True Story Mar 25, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYn6EQDqTkU Satoshi Nakamoto and the Civil-War Within Bitcoin Apr 3, 2021