Where to get educated about the more advanced uses of bitcoin and the blockchain

[pietrosperoni]

After learning the basics, and seeing the basic videos, and making the obligatory wallet, and storing it and encrypting it and all of that, there is still al lot I need to learn. In particular in this wonderful video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs6F91dFYCs explains that you can insert all sort of information in the block chain. But does not explain how to do it. It says you can write conditions which, if fulfilled a transaction happens, but it does not say where you write those conditions nor in what language.

Recently a lot of money was stolen, and I suppose most of you have followed the thief money been followed in the block chain through tumblers, and various wallets http://www.reddit.com/r/SheepMarketplace/comments/1rvlft/i_just_chased_him_through_a_bitcoin_tumbler_and/. We also saw in this occasion people "sending messages" along with tiny amount of money.
But how do we send those messages? The QT program does not seem to permit it. Nor, it seem to me, the MultiBit that I recently downloaded as well.

More than that a person seemed to be able to attach something to those stolen bitcoin. The words "sheep market scam" along with the url of the reddit discussion. How was all this done?

So I think the questions can be summarised as:
-How does a person learn about the more advanced uses of bitcoin?
--What they are,
--how to do them,
--what language are those transaction rules written in,
--etc.
-How does a person send a message on a transaction?
-How does a person connects some text, with a url to some bitcoins, and how does it get followed.

Many thanks,
Pietro

[Mylon]

Yea been facing the same problem for some time... Then again I might have already found most of the advanced topics... but still hungry for more.

Either way: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list

Above should be able to answer the first 5 questions. (loads of stuff on the wiki)
Last one is I believe a feature of blockchain.info (not sure how you can tag a name to an address across multiple blockexplorers)

[pietrosperoni]

Yea been facing the same problem for some time... Then again I might have already found most of the advanced topics... but still hungry for more.

Either way: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list

Above should be able to answer the first 5 questions. (loads of stuff on the wiki)

Thank you. I am surprised this issue appears so rarely in this community.

Ok, so here we have a number of API calls. Is there on UI that handles them and interact with the backend?

For example in this question http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/8269/how-do-i-view-the-change-addresses-in-my-wallet-listreceivedbyaddress-0-true this user writes: "I typed listreceivedbyaddress 0 true and don't see it". But where did he typed it? Surely not on the Mac terminal window. And yet there is no place where to issue commands in either Bitcoin-Qt nor MultiBit. Is there another software I should instead use?

Thanks again.
Pietro

[drrussellshane]

Yea been facing the same problem for some time... Then again I might have already found most of the advanced topics... but still hungry for more.

Either way: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list

Above should be able to answer the first 5 questions. (loads of stuff on the wiki)

Thank you. I am surprised this issue appears so rarely in this community.

Ok, so here we have a number of API calls. Is there on UI that handles them and interact with the backend?

For example in this question http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/8269/how-do-i-view-the-change-addresses-in-my-wallet-listreceivedbyaddress-0-true this user writes: "I typed listreceivedbyaddress 0 true and don't see it". But where did he typed it? Surely not on the Mac terminal window. And yet there is no place where to issue commands in either Bitcoin-Qt nor MultiBit. Is there another software I should instead use?

Thanks again.
Pietro

There is a terminal available in Bitcoin-QT.

Click on "Help".

Then "Debug Window".

There is a "Console" tab, and also an option to show command-line options.

[takagari]

Wow thanks for the info. Doubt I'll use it but good to know!

[PenAndPaper]

You can create transactions in such a way so when you run those transactions through an ascii converter a message or a string that makes sense can appear.

I don't know exactly how to do it but i think that requires many transactions to achive it and it is no longer feasible because of the minimum standard transactions. Anyway i think if you go through this forum you 'll find everything.

[pietrosperoni]

There is a terminal available in Bitcoin-QT.

Click on "Help".

Then "Debug Window".

There is a "Console" tab, and also an option to show command-line options.

Found it, thank you very much. Now I have a lot to study