Pizza and beer will be served at 6:30PM and the meeting will start at 7:00PM sharp. Please make sure you RSVP for the event and answer the security questions otherwise you will not be allowed entry.
We’ve got some great material planned for our 35th Socratic style meetup! During the first half of the event, we will do a deep dive into the Bitcoin Github repository and investigate open pull requests slated for the next major release of Bitcoin Core, .10, followed by discussion of weekly mining statistics. We will also spend time going through the recent Stellar fork, major changes to alternative implementations of the Bitcoin protocol and other exciting developments in the cryptocurrency space.
The second half of the event will be dedicated to Adam Krellenstein, founder of Counterparty (http://counterparty.io), a peer-to-peer financial platform and distributed, open source Internet protocol built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain and network. Adam will update us on recent changes to the protocol and demo the new feature set!
Bitcoin Core .10rc1
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.10.0rc1
https://gist.github.com/laanwj/c94f5222aadb3fc8fe1a
Git Issues/Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5608
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5575
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5535
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5506
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5503
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5545
Bitcoin-XT
https://github.com/bitcoinxt/bitcoinxt
Weekly Network Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/12/december-14th-2014-bitcoin-mining-pool.html
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/12/december-20th-2014-mining-pool.html
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/12/december-20th-2014-network-statistics.html
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/12/december-20th-2014-block-maker.html
The Future of Bitcoin Transaction Fees?
http://hashingit.com/analysis/35-the-future-of-bitcoin-transaction-fees
The Consensus Red Herring
https://blog.conformal.com/the-bitcoin-consensus-red-herring/
Bitcoin Adoption in 2015
http://daltoncaldwell.com/bitcoin-adoption-in-2015
Bitcore 0.8 Available
http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/12/23/major-improvements-to-the-bitcore-api.html
LTB Interview with Johoe (recovered bc.i btc after poor RNG)
http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-7-bitcoin-hero-jochen-aka-johoe
bitcoinjs-lib and bitcore RFC6979 Compliant
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=911663.0
A Novel Approach for Computer Worm Control Using Decentralized Data Structures
https://pdf.yt/d/E2ZwuLAVfC44kEQk
Stellar Fork
https://www.coindesk.com/stability-questions-dog-ripple-protocol-stellar-fork/
https://xrptalk.org/topic/4617-consensus-algorithm-article-regarding-stellar-fork/
https://stellarverse.org/forum/index.php/topic,10.15.html