on why bitcoin and friends like blockchain
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on why
BITCOIN and FRIENDSlike Blockchain
Grzegorz GawronArini Labs
marketics at arini.biz
agendamotivation - work on marketics
digital cash short history
bitcoin overview
blockchain technology - the basis
build your own cryptocurrency
* Marketics
MOTIVATION
investorMARKETICS
investment exchange platform
investment provider
transaction PROOF
Digital CashShort History
transactions
cashanonymity
offline transactions
creditledger
credit-risk
barter
digital cash representing fiat currency● double-spending, so cash-spent ledgers, then ● anonymity lost, so ‘blind signatures’, then
○ Chaum 1983 (voter and ballot example)
● online only, so don’t prevent double-spending, detect it■ Chaum et al. 1988: detect double spending, not prevent it
● 1989: Chaum’s DigiCash○ failure, merchants weren’t keen,
■ additional communication for the receiver, so b2c only
digital cash on its own● bitcoin
○ no double spending + anonymity/ownership + security/value
...
Bitcoin - overview
Bitcoin...
first decentralised crypto-currency
no trusted intermediaries required (eg banks)
bitcoin timeline● 2007 - coding started● 2008 - bitcoin.org registered● 2010 - Satoshi still anonymous goes offline
○ cyberpunk anonymity○ AML/patent legal issues○ personal security
● 2010 may - pizza bought for 10000 BTC● 2013 apr - Mt Gox handles 70% of BTC world trade● 2013 may - Mt Gox goes down● 2013 oct - Silk Road taken down● 2014 jan - 1 BTC = 1000 USD
... and friendslitecoin - few changes to bitcoin (scrypt vs SHA-256, speed)
dogecoin - for fun
ripple - any asset, no POW
ethereum - smart contract focus
market cap chart
name market cap mln USDbitcoin 6831ripple 202litecoin 156ethereum 72dash 20dogecoin 14
* 7/1/2015 (coinmarketcap.com); < 10 mln USD ignored
bitcoin price history chart
May 2010
pizza10k BTC
* 7/1/2015 (coinmarketcap.com)
How it rolls
miner exchange
buyer seller
BlockChain technology - the Basis
The common underlying techA block chain or blockchain is a permissionless distributed database based on the bitcoin protocol that maintains a continuously growing list of transactional data records hardened against tampering and revision, even by operators of the data store's nodes.
* 7/1/2015 wikipedia
digital cash on its own (cont)● bitcoin
○ no double spending + anonymity/ownership + security/value
● hash timestamped ledger○ prove relative ordering○ prevent double-spending
● digital signatures○ ‘anonymously prove’ ownership
● POW○ enables limited resource thus giving value○ ensures security
■ eg fighting spam
block chain diagram
* 7/1/2015 https://21.co/learn/bitcoin-mining/#the-merkle-root
transactions
* Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Satoshi Nakamoto
transaction: combine / split
* Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Satoshi Nakamoto
build your own crypto-currency?
cryptoNote - your own cryptocurrency ‘in 10 minutes’steps
● clone sources● add your configuration● ‘mine’ genesis block● create client● distribute
...and mine like there’s no tomorrow till everyone joins
References- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Satoshi
Nakamotohttps://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
- Princeton University: ‘Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies’https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech
- http://coinmarketcap.com- https://21.co/learn/#reference-21-bitcoin-org- https://cryptonotestarter.org/
- last but not least: wiki*edia
Thank You
Grzegorz GawronArini Labs
marketics at arini.biz