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The Next Frontier of Bitcoin
Jeff Garzik CEO @ Dunvegan Space Systems Bitcoin Core Developer @ BitPay
[email protected] / @jgarzik
“2015 will be a make-or-break year for Bitcoin” - Timothy Lee, Vox.com No — it is just the beginning. - Me
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Bitcoin is a startup currency
Investment category: high risk
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MotivationUniversal money - The unbanked - My discovery
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Bitcoin: todayWarning: Technobabble ahead
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Bitcoin: Do it yourself?Not the smartest move - use BitPay
Bitcoin: monetary snapshotIn circulation: 14,368,050 BTC
Market cap: $4.0B @ $285/BTC
Transactions: 200,000/day
Value transferred: 1.7M BTC/day (~$480M/day)
Hash power: 4.5M PetaFLOPS - 77000 x Tianhe-2
Market trading (USD): $55M/day
Bitcoin:community snapshotVenture cap: $2M > $95M > $349M > $357M YTD
AngelList count: 512
Wallet count: 2M (coinbase), 3M (blockchain.info)
Reddit subscribers: 160,000
Developer repositories: 5,000+
P2P network nodes: 6,000
Bitcoin Core 0.10: What’s new?
Headers first synchronization
Smart transaction fees
Unlimited P2SH script flexibility
HTTP REST API
Watch-only wallets
Consensus library
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Bitcoin: tomorrow
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The Bitcoin Pyramid - At the lowest layer today
The Goal• Holy grail:
Instant, secure payments
• Payment channels • Open protocol • Layer 2. Bitcoin base • “Lightning network”,
“Impulse protocol”
Payment channel analysisTrustless + multi-sig. Example use case:
Customer makes instant, secure payment to Lyft
Customer is secure against BitPay stealing funds
Lyft & BitPay are secure against Customer clawback
BitPay does not hold funds; funds go straight to Lyft.
Wallet software updates required
More Layer-2 servicesBIP65 “CLTV” - Funds locked on-chain for X days
Semi-trusted escrow (2-of-3) - no funds held
“Internet of Chains” - side chains and more
Deploy new bitcoin features rapidly
Non-currency chains
Smart property: transfer ownership of stocks, cars, …
Identity & Smart Contracts
In a decentralized world, “identity” becomes key nexus
Decentralized markets demand [anonymous] identity, reputation.
Smart contracts: Digitize every fact, then trigger action
ID+SC: Completes the decentralized landscape
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Bitcoin: the not-so-near future
BitSat: bitcoins in spaceCloud computing
Blockchain on board
BTC oracles in space
Worldwide broadcast
No “Great Firewall”
Space banks, corps
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Supply chainsReal-time optimization, reconfiguration
TradeNet (credit: Mike Hearn)
