[NBLUG/talk] General meeting 2011-08-09: Bitcoin and Namecoin

Allan Cecil ac at sonic.net
Wed Aug 3 15:14:19 PDT 2011


Greetings,

I'm preparing my Bitcoin and Namecoin talk and I'm curious what topics I should weight the talk toward.  I plan on briefly covering all of the areas described in the Announce E-Mail below but what aspects are you the most interested in?

1. Bitcoin economics and legal standing
2. Technical discussion of the block chain, transactions, etc.
3. Open-source Linux client and tools, usage demo
4. Bitcoin block generation and mining hardware
5. Namecoin economics and legal standing
6. Namecoin distributed DNS under Linux
7. Security considerations

I'll be sure to make the talk fast-paced and interesting regardless of the slant.  Feel free to reply directly or to the talk at nblug.org thread depending on whether you want a discussion going or not.  Thanks in advance for the feedback and I hope to see you next Tuesday,

A.C.
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On 08/02/2011 09:49 PM, ac at sonic.net wrote:
> Start: 2011/08/09 - 7:30pm
> End: 2011/08/09 - 9:00pm
> Description:
>
> In this talk I'll describe what Bitcoin is, how and why it's used, and how it works under the hood. I'll also show a live demo in Linux of bitcoind, pooled mining, and Namecoin (a distributed DNS). If you are completely unfamiliar with Bitcoin there's a short overview video at http://www.weusecoins.com - if you *are* familiar with Bitcoin, please feel free to speak up during a Q&A at the end!
>
> Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA
> Speaker: Allan Cecil
>
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