Core Dev:
“New” Bitcoin Core Maintainer!
https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=677
Issues/Pull Requests:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3965
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4007
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4011
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3977
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3994
Draft BIP - Shamir Secret Sharing
https://github.com/whitslack/btctool/blob/bip/bip-xxxx.mediawiki
BIP 42 - A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin (lol)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0042.mediawiki
Gox/Malleability Analysis
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.6676v1.pdf
Node Use on the Decline?
http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/dashboard/chart/?days=60
Mining Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-6th-2014-weekly-hashrate.html
Unknown pool on its way up, propagating blocks with 2 base system pattern?
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/22cohy/8024121746_mining_18_blocks_today_containing/
Libbitcoin Splitting
https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/Libbitcoin#split_project
GUI for sx (I have NOT looked at this code, tread with caution of course)
https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/tree/master/tools
Chain Archeology, Revisited
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507458.0
http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/chain-archeology/
Satoshi Spent 50BTC (that we know of), where are they now?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=548508.0
Threshold Signatures:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~stevenag/bitcoin_threshold_signatures.pdf
Heartbleed OpenSSl bug
Alt/Misc:
Blockchain Scripting Contest
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21f7o2/blockchain_scripting_contest_first_trial/
BitCube (store your private key in a rubik’s cube)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21slk4/introducting_bitcubepy_a_creative_way_to_store/
https://github.com/Random101/BitCube
Flexcoin and Poloniex Hacks Revisited
http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/06/another-one-bites-the-dust-flexcoin/
Ethereum v2 Whitepaper
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Whitepaper-2-Draft
SchellingCoin: A Minimal-Trust Universal Data Feed
http://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal-trust-universal-data-feed/
DPOS (BitShares)
http://107.170.30.182/security/delegated-proof-of-stake.php
Counterwallet
Decentralized networks for instant, off-chain payments (proposal and proof of concept, oldish)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Aakselrod/Draft
https://github.com/aakselrod/libtxchain-java
Fawkescoin:
http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BM14-SPW-fawkescoin.pdf
Presentations:
Michael Flaxman & Tom
Michael from CoinSafe.com is in town for the conference and will be giving a talk on how to secure your bitcoin using cold storage. He’ll be explaining the core elements of cold storage: air gapped machines, random number generation, symmetric encryption, and Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme. He’ll also be reviewing the Bitcoin protocol so you can better understand the fundamentals. The goal is to build a system that has no single point of failure, is impenetrable by attackers, and recoverable even if you forget your password. By the end of the talk, you’ll know not only how to store Bitcoin securely, but also some very common mistakes that people make when using cold storage.
Kyle Drake
Kyle is also in town for the conference and will be talking about some of his work on Coinpunk and bitcoinjs-lib!