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

[Roger House]

Allan:

I'm interested in 1, 3, 5, and 7.  Looking forward to the talk.

Roger

On 08/03/2011 03:14 PM, Allan Cecil wrote:
> 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.
> ******
>
> 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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