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My final ignite slides are up at http://bitcoinbasics.com/ignitedc. They were way too wordy, and I tried to cram too much info into the presentation, but I'll know better next time. Speaking of next time, I've just applied to present at an ignite at DrupalCon Chicago in a few weeks, I'll know on the 28th if I've been accepted. |
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Bitcoin: fast, free, permanent transactions with eight orders of magnitude divisibility.
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Bitcoin is the Esperanto of currency.
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yup, I'm trying to figure it out myself. Not sure what Drupal is doing.
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As I understand Bitcoin P2P network, there is a block chain that holds a record of every transaction that ever happened.
Does every Bitcoin instance on a peer node download this entire block chain? If so, at some point won't it become untenable to
download the entire chain as it gets larger and larger ?
I hope that I'm missing something here, but I'm concerned that as the volume of transactions increases we'll have to make some changes to how many of the blocks we keep track of in the nodes.
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There is such a thing as Illegal tender. Counterfeit dollars or money of any type is illegal tender. Also, not sure what the courts will decide on this one, but the Liberty Dollar was deemed illegal tender by the FBI. There are some interesting laws that were supposedly violated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_DollarHowever, I don't expect Bitcoin will fall under these laws. |
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Using new P2P technology and heavy duty cryptograpy, Bitcoin distributes the accounting of value across a network allowing for instant transfers.
Imagine if every time you spent or received money, it had to be confirmed (albeit anonymously) by everyone around you that the transaction had occurred.
Now imagine you had freely available open source software that connected to a network that facilitated this validation, enabling rapid transfer of measures of value all over the globe via the Internet. That, is bitcoin.
The Bitcoin system is a reputation engine of value where everyone who joins the network vouches for the amount of bitcoins in your wallet.
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I've set up a set of Powerpoint slides at http://bitcoinbasics.com that I'll be using at an Ignite conference, it has some other info about Potomacs, Washington, DC's local currency. I'll clean these slides up and remove the Potomac info at some point but I hope this helps for anyone who is looking to teach about Bitcoin. |
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I'd love to have sub-cents payments both in the RPC and in the GUI.
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ya, beards are important for FOSS!
I'd suggest you see what I did with the btc_address module regarding the issue about including classes.
Also, have you seen mikegogulski's PHP class for bitcoin? How does it compare to yours? it'd be great if we could standardize on one library,
and also standardize on one bitcoin module that loads that library, and then for other bitcoin modules, just make them dependent on that module.
btc_address does load the PHP Bitcoin class
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Thanks for all these great tips and information, I'll get them in!
--Darrell
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Ok, I've taken in a lot of your suggestions and updated the slides, they're available at http://bitcoinbasics.com. There is still more for me to process about some of the suggestions above., but let me know what you think now if you have a moment. Thanks, --Darrell http://bitcoinbasics.com |
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Thanks for all the great suggestions. I'm going to work on it more this evening and see what I can come up with. I agree I need a better background. I'll see whatelse I can incorporate, you've got great points.
As for the charts, I agree they are overload. with only 15 seconds per slide, I plan on only talking about the Bitcoin features, and just letting the audience take in the other fields as they read them, I don't plan to cover everything.
I have a personal interest in promoting the Potomac as well, although it is not the focus of this presentation. However, I expect there will be people in the audience who will be more interested in thh Potomac and I want them to know that it exists. I believe that by including it in these slides offers the idea that there is a lot of change happening in the currencies that we use, and each one adds validity to the other by including them both for this particular audience I'm speaking to.
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I'm going to be speaking at IgniteDC in a week about Bitcoin and I've created a draft of the slides I'll use to introduce Bitcoin to the audience there. The format is 20 slides, and the slides change automatically every 15 seconds, and the presentation lasts 5 minutes. Anyhow, the slides are due by Wednesday, so if you have a chance to look at them at http://bitcoinbasics.com and give me some feedback before then about them, that'd be great. There is so much I'd like to cover and the slides don't include what I'll be saying, but if you see any glaring omissions or points I've missed, please let me know at d@duane.comOf course, feel free to use these as you see fit. I start off talking about the history of money, then draw comparisons to other contemporary exchange/value systems, and launch into Bitcoin itself. I'll add four more slides at the end talking about The Potomac, a local currency in Washington, DC. of course, donations are accepted at the two addresses that are listed in the slides: 1QDQUYyhLgWxhvE8o158Xr3asBd84oqvD Thanks! --Darrell |
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