Passing Bitcoin Around the World seeks to demonstrate the freedom of Bitcoin to send Bitcoin to anyone, and to do some good by raising money for charity. Many people have voiced support for this project, and their interest in participating. The first Passing Bitcoin was very small, with 9 participants around the world. This time I expect a much larger number of people being involved. The first Passing Bitcoin transferred the 66 dollars (500 mBTC) used in the relay to the One Foundation in China. This time, everyone gets to participate by adding their own donations. Now for the reason for this post. Life has blocked my way, and I am being forced to push back the date two weeks. We have added a IRC Chat channel, and are signing up sponsors and organizers to get this thing together. If you are interested in helping at all, go to the website and contact me. http://PassingBitcoin.com |
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We are doing monthly "Mini" Bitcoin Conferences in Austin Texas. August 17, we had - David Johnston of Bit Angles,
- Chris Odom of Monetas and Open Transactions,
- Steven Wilkinson of Crypto Con Consulting on Bit Pay
- Paul Snow (AlanX) on Passing Bitcoin around the World
- Nikos Bentenitis on the Bitcoin Foundation's Education Committee
The next Mini Conference is going to be September 21. This isn't any substitute for any of the big conferences, but if you happen to be in Austin Texas on the 3rd Saturday of the Month, we will try and make it worth your while! And if anyone is interested in presenting a project, some research, looking for connections, whatever, then contact me! snow dot paul at gmail dot com http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/136014682/ |
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We are meeting at Scholz Garten, the oldest bar (Beer Garden) in Texas on Sundays!We have weekly meetups every Sunday Night. Next Meetup: January 19 (Check end of Thread for Details) For more information, check out the meetp page: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/If you are a merchant, the meetup is a great place to come and learn how to sign up. We regularly have a BitPay consultant who can answer your questions! we can talk about mining, funding a startup, or just setting up your first wallet! Join us! - What: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Meetup
- Where: Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin TX
- When: Sunday January 12
- Why? Have some snacks, a drink, listen to a small presentation, plenty of conversation, make some contacts, and have a good time!
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Obviously a chance to talk cryptocurrency! Also a chance to rehash the Mini Bitcoin Conference from last Saturday. http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/134815042/Talking Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, and various Bitcoin projects Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:00 PM Central Market 40th & N. Lamar, Austin, TX |
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We are having a Meetup every Tuesday at Central Market (for now; Looking for a better venue; might end up on campus). Going to have a Weekend Meetup the 3rd Saturday of each month. The first is this coming Saturday. More Information here: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/133602192/ |
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This meetup is like a little Bitcoin conference. We are going to have presentations from:
David Johnston -- Bit Angels
Steven Wilkinson -- Bitpay
Chris Odom -- demonstrating the Monetas iPhone app.
Plus some flash presentations (~5 minutes).
Nikos Bentenitis -- The Education committee of Bitcoin foundation
Paul Snow -- Passing Bitcoin Around the World
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Okay if I cross post your offer over on Reddit? |
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Bitcoin Meetup tomorrow, Aug 13, 7:00 pm at Central Market on Lamar. Tomorrow we will be doing some last minute agenda setting for the Weekend Bitcoin Meetup, Aug 17, 5:00 pm, at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus (RM 1.138). The weekend Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency meetup will include presentations from some big names in Bitcoin (more on that later), as well as exposure to great information and great people!  |
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More information can be found here at meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/133602192/What: Austin Bitcoin Meetup Where: Location TBD. When: 5:00 pm Saturday August 17 Right now I am estimating about 30 attendees. It could go higher. We will have presentations by a few Austin based Bitcoin folks. The Agenda will be finalized next week. If you have a Bitcoin project or effort that you would like featured, PM me to get on the schedule. This is a great chance for you to talk to people involved in Bitcoin, and make critical contacts. |
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So the story begins with a post by SeansOutpost on Reddit toward the end of July, 2013. Wow, someone in the French Quarter is taking Bitcoins!  As it happens, my wife and I love going to New Orleans! And we are planning to go to the French Quarter the first weekend of August, 2013. We arrive in New Orleans late Friday, and hoof it over to David's Saturday morning. We find:  David's isn't open on Saturday. (We later find out that David and his wife Esther are Jewish, and close their shop on Sundown Friday.) But they are open on Sunday! We are headed back to Austin on Sunday, and we load up the car. On our way out, we search around and sort of find a place to park (we are poking into a tow away zone, but hope for the best!). We go to Davids, who are open! .... Okay, I'm lazy. The rest at the blog: http://brownzings.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-bitcoin-transaction-in-new-orleans.htmlContact information for David's:
David's
Antiques, Jewelry, Collectables Old & New
www.davidsAntiquesNOLA.com
DavidsAntiquesNOLA@gmail.com
(504) 908-0011
322 Royal St.
New Orleans, LA 70130 |
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More information about the meetup here: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/132451972/. Where: Central Market at 40th & Lamar (We usually meet at some tables outside the cafe) When: 7:00 pm Tuesday August 6 Topics: All things Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple, etc. We have voted to continue to have weekly meetings. One of the meetings per month is going to be on the weekend for people that want to travel to attend. This meeting we will settle on the Weekend meetup date. We will also discuss and settle on a presentation format. The idea is to kick off each meetup with a couple of presentations on Bitcoin projects, research, and/or observations. We will follow that with the usual scattering of discussions among each other. My goal is to decide upon, and schedule speakers starting next meetup, i.e. August 13. |
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More Information: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/131194872/Where: Central Market on 40th and Lamar in Austin Texas When: 7:00pm Topics: Mining, trading, economics, merchant adoption, Bitcoin projects, exchanges, and even basic Bitcoin details for those new to Bitcoin We usually meet outside the cafe. The Central Market cafe serves food, beer, and wine. I will have a laptop on the tables showing the Bitcoin Logo. |
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I posted some links to this post on Reddit (Hope you don't mind). You might want to consider posting your offer on http://www.reddit.com/r/dallasSeriously, this is getting hard core! I really appreciate your support! |
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When: Tuesday July 23 Where: Central Market, 40th & N. Lamar, Austin TX Talking Bitcoin market, mining, trading, projects, using, and accepting. Really anything related to Bitcoin. Edit Forgot the link to the meetup information: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/128058552/ |
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another interesting difference in your proposal is the handling of double spends. With your approach, it would be possible to get an invalid colour accounting be permanently accepted into the bitcoin blockchain. Thus your protocol needs to define additional rules to resolve such a situation, and these rules need to be enforced by the client accepting an amount of colour.
I don't think there is any way with my proposal that you can get an invalid color accounting accepted into the blockchain. My proposal would simply interpret an invalid transaction as being a bitcoin transaction outside of the colored coin world, at least if the balance of colored coins was not there to support the transaction attempted. Contrast this to BitcoinX, where the double-spend detection is done by the miners.
This point shouldn't be taken lightly, since computations with an exponential fan-out tend to become dangerously expensive.
BitcoinX is in exactly the same boat, where the transactions are interpreted in ways that Bitcoin doesn't care or know about. Bottom line: If there is an unambiguous way to compute the colored transactions from the origin of colored coins, through all the transactions that pass them about, then you are done. The BitcoinX protocol as documented (I will not pretend I know everything they are doing) requires each transaction to sort the colors at an address to know what outputs are what colors. And since you don't know what is in an account unless you can interpret the inputs, that means you have to know what colors were involved with the transaction that provided the inputs to your transaction. That means you have to know all the colors, or at least what colors are involved. My proposal just requires know the source address, the signatures, and the transactions that stem from the source address of the color you are interested in. The balances of each color within each transaction is completely independent of each other, and from Bitcoin itself. |
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