Understanding How Bitcoin Works
Long time, no update. 🙂 It’s difficult to produce quality content, which is why I was very impressed with the person who made this particular video: Understanding how Bitcoin works can be difficult, but this particular video is exceptional in breaking the concepts down and connecting them together. I consider it another “must-see”…
C++, WebSockets, and Mt.Gox
I’ve been reading quite a bit about websockets lately. To test my understanding of the concepts involved, I was trying to connect an application to Mt.Gox in order to collect bitcoin-related pricing information. I was having some difficulty getting all of the parameters aligned properly with all of the various websocket libraries, so I went…
Matonis: “Fincen’s New Regulations Are Choking Bitcoin Entrepreneurs”
I found this informative article written by Jon Matonis detailing the current hurdles in the way of mass adoption of crypto-currencies within the US. Technology enthusiasts (like me) tend to dive headfirst into the “how things work” angle of emerging trends like bitcoin, but much of what determines the fate of new technology lands in other…
Pitfalls of Bitcoin Ownership: Disk Failure
I was in the middle of browsing the web when suddenly my system stopped responding to me. The mouse was still moving, but none of the windows were registering actions. My system froze and locked up on me. After cycling the power, I noticed the kernel message log spewing out all kinds of errors related…
Merkle Trees
The paper detailing the mechanics of Bitcoin is a fascinating read. However, the technology involved requires several re-readings of the paper to make sense of what is going on. I’ve been attacking the concepts piece by piece as time permits. In particular, the Bitcoin paper’s comments regarding the use of the Merkle Tree caught my…
jQuery, Websockets, and Bitcoin Time and Sales
If you haven’t seen Clark Moody’s Mt.Gox bitcoin market data website yet, you should. It’s a really beautiful presentation of realtime Mt.Gox BitCoin orderbook depth, the trade tape, and charts at various time frames. I was so impressed by Clark’s presentation of market information that I wanted to dig into how modern web sites present information…
The Most Exciting Event Since the Flash Crash
… Well, most exciting to me, anyway. Who ever thought crypto-currency market dynamics would dominate office conversation on an average April day? I don’t really own much in the way of BitCoins and only saw them as a fascinating academic topic, but I couldn’t take my eyes off of the BitCoin charting sites since the…
Cryptocoin Mining Information
While looking at merged mining[1] efforts in crypto-currencies, I stumbled across an interesting site: http://dustcoin.com/mining The site is interesting, not only because it talks about merged mining, but because it lays out some of the variations between all of the crypto-currencies in relation to Bitcoin. [1] Regarding merged mining, I found a good explanation here, at http://dot-bit.org/Merged_Mining:…
Jeffrey Paul: “Financing the Revolution”
A friend passed me an URL today with this talk by Jeffrey Paul about the need for Bitcoin. His talk is very good and he touches on the need for bitcoins, how they work, the evolution of the bitcoin market, and the future of bitcoins. The video was uploaded about a year ago, but much…