Joris Bontje@mids106

#xebicon2012

What is Bitcoin?

• Digital Cash

• Peer to Peer

• Public Key Crypto

• Bitcoin payment address: 37muSN5ZrukVTvyVh3mT5Zc5ew9L9CBare

bitcoin.org

Open Source

Adoption

January 17, 2011

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June 3, 2012

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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Map

Why?

For Money trust is essential

Genesis block

“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”

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Usage

Technology

http://bit.ly/KcWo2I

• Public key crypto

• Blockchain

• Hashes / Mining

Software

Windows, OSX & Linux

Android

Command Line & API

Future

• Adoption

• Security

• Scalability

?@mids106

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