Thursday, 29 August 2013
Interesting Snippets from 2013-08-29
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The money is in the Bitcoin protocol | Internet Ganesha
Mention Bitcoins and people think ‘anonymous currency’. However, that’s only one instance of how the underlying public-key cryptographic protocol can be used. For example, at a conference last week, in my presentation, I said it was an approach that I’m increasingly thinking about as a way to re-frame the discussion between centralised and decentralised systems. I’ll look at some of the basics in this post as well as how people are thinking about using the Bitcoin protocol to do some very innovative things.