The document outlines the agenda for a Bitcoin meetup event. The agenda includes introductions and presentations on the sharing economy, what Bitcoin is, the technology behind Bitcoin, and Bitcoin's financial implications. Presenters will discuss topics like peer-to-peer technologies, trust between strangers, Bitcoin as digital gold, the history of money, failures of fiat currencies, and whether Bitcoin is better than traditional currencies. There will be a Q&A session at the end for attendees to ask questions.
2. Agenda
6:00 – 6:05 Introduction Darren Camas
6:05 – 6:10 Intro to the sharing economy Dalma Berkovics
6:10 – 6:20 What is Bitcoin? Adam Stradling
6:20 – 6:30 Technology behind Bitcoin Philippe Camacho
6:30 – 6:40 Bitcoin’s financial implications Uday Bansal
6:40 – 7:00 Q&A Darren Camas
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3. By Dalma Berkovics
Intro to the Sharing Economy
OuiShare Chile Connector
Ex Sustainability consultant @BeCitizen, Paris
HEC, Paris 2011 (Master in Management)
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5. You don’t want the drill, you
just want that ******* hole!
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6. Fueled by the economic
downturn and P2P tech
Why is it happening?
Economic downturn
Environmental concerns
Too many stuffs
Social benefits
What conditions needed?
Peer-to-peer technologies
Trust between strangers
Critical mass
Rachel Botsman- What’s mine is yours
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7. OuiShare
Open community to accelerate the shift towards a more
collaborative economy
+40 events in Europe since January 2012 |
Latin America Tour in July 2013
Collaborative online
magazine
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8. OuiShare looks into a wide range of
concepts of the Sharing Economy
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9. About Adam Stradling
What is Bitcoin?
Co-founder and former COO of www.tradehill.com
Co-founder and Advisor of www.work4ce.me – Start Up
Chile, gen 6.2
Founder of www.4ce.cl – Recruiting and research in
banking, finance, and technology
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10. About Tradehill
What is Bitcoin?
The first “professional” bitcoin company
TH Gained 40k+ users in the first 90 days
TH processed tens of millions in transactions in the first 90
days
TH was featured or mentioned in tens of global tier one news
sources (like here: http://bit.ly/YkhKq8 )
TH owned www.bitcoin.com
TH just re-launched on March 18th, 2013
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11. Money is just data in a database
What is Bitcoin?
Your credit card, an encrypted number in the network
One big ledger : accounting, audits, IOUs, TRUST!
Trust, Trust, Trust – Increases the cost of doing business
High barriers to entry in banking, finance, payments
What if this “money database” were P2P?
Can’t be manipulated, can’t double spend
No trust - all accounting is public, open source, P2P
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12. Fundamental Usage Cases
What is Bitcoin?
International value transfers:
IBAN system – expensive, 3-5 days, multiple banks
Other: western union, greendot, paypal – similar issues
Highly fragmented global payments network
Store of wealth:
Volatile to the upside
Deflationary currency
True supply and demand pricing – i.e. no QE possible
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13. Fundamental Usage Cases
What is Bitcoin?
The 2.5 billion “unbanked” (mobile, e-commerce)
No TTP – In the network we trust
No disputes – Did you send the money?
No chargebacks – It’s digital cash
Micro transactions – Can you send me a dollar?
Gambling - Money in, money out, ten mins
Anonymous – Privacy, privacy, privacy
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14. Resources for Newcoiners
What is Bitcoin?
http://www.weusecoins.com/en/
Basic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo
High level, technical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-w7SnQWwVA
www.bitcoin.org
www.blockexplorer.com
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15. Announcing coin4ce.com
What is Bitcoin?
Adam is Founder and CEO, coin4ce.com
Philippe is Co-founder and CTO, coin4ce.com
Jacob Lundberg, Partner and Biz Dev
Searching for:
Front and back-end developers
Marketing, biz dev, support/CS
Investors
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16. By Philippe Camacho
How to explain Bitcoin
to your mother?
Software Developer
PhD student in Cryptology
Agile coach
Now
Bitcoin enthusiast
CTO and co-founder at coin4ce.com
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17. Distributed System,
Open Source, Digital
Signatures, Collision-
Resistant Hash
Functions, Broadcast
transactions, Merkle
trees,…
Very interesting…
I can send bitcoin via
email right?
Me My mother
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19. (Let’s do it again)
What is
Bitcoin?
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20. Bitcoin
It’s like gold expect that it’s digital
No central authority controls the coins
Limited number of bitcoins (btc)
You can keep it or transfer it
You don’t have to reveal your identity
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27. Great!
I can spend my bitcoins as many times as I want !
(double spending)
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28. Fix #2
The network shares a transaction book
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29. Solution 2
Origin Destination Amount
Homer Lisa 1 BTC
Homer Bart 2 BTC
Lisa Bart 1 BTC
… … …
The network checks
that an account is
funded before
allowing a new
transfer.
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30. As every transaction is public,
the identity of user is revealed.
Nobody will want to use such a system!
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36. Fix #4: Digital Signatures
Non-repudiation Unforgeability
(You can’t sign in Bart’s name)
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37. Solution 4
Origin Destination Amount Signature
HHY67J81 JH89HF8M 1 BTC Djsh767
HHY67J81 LAU4V6UU 2 BTC 8988dd
JH89HF8M LAU4V6UU 1 BTC djDhd7n
… … …
Every bitcoin address
corresponds to the
public key.
Message
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38. I can still do very bad things…
What about publishing a wrong history of transactions…
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39. Things get a bit more complicated…
Name: Shafi Goldwasser
Profession: Computer scientist at MIT
Speciality: Cryptography
Other: Turing Award (march 2013)
Your mother
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41. FIX #5: Cryptographic Hash Functions
Security properties
One-way
Given the output y it’s hard
to compute some input x
such that H(x) = y
Collision-Resistant
It’s hard to find two different
values x,x’ such that
H(x)=H(x’)
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45. Solution 5
The first node that manages to
solve the computational puzzle
(nonce) wins the block.
The network extends the chain
from the newly computed block.
The network always chooses the
largest chain.
Damned!
I need to control 51%
of the network….
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46. Nice in theory but why would
people waste their CPU cycles?
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47. The winner of a block is rewarded 25 BTC
by the network
(BTW, this is how bitcoins are created).
This process is called mining.
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