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7 This site is dedicated to providing Bitcoin experts and futurists (ie #bitcoin-wizards IRC participants) a place to put links, etc.<br>
8 If you're a Bitcoin expert, ping BlueMatt for a email/subdomain on bitcoin.ninja.<br>
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10 Public summaries of some wizardly thinking:
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12 <li><a href="https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf">ASICs and Decentralization FAQ</a></li>
13 <li><a href="https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf">Proof of Stake</a></li>
14 <li><a href="https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/alts.pdf">A Treatise on Altcoins</a> (wip)</li>
15 <li><a href="https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/brs-arbitrary-output-sizes.txt">Output size obfuscation for Bytecoin</a></li>
16 <li><a href="https://iwilcox.me.uk/2014/no-from-address">There Is No 'From' Address</a></li>
17 <li><a href="https://iwilcox.me.uk/2014/proving-bitcoin-reserves">Proving Your Bitcoin Reserves</a></li>
18 <li><a href="https://bitcoin.ninja/BitcoinPhilosophy201_ForkActivationMethods.ogg">A discussion on soft fork activation concerns</a> (<a href="https://bitcoin.ninja/BitcoinPhilosophy201_ForkActivationMethods.mp3">alternative in mp3 format</a>)</li>
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21 Useful resources:
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23 <li><a href="http://gnusha.org/bitcoin-wizards/">#bitcoin-wizards logs here</a></li>
24 <li><a href="https://freenode.irclog.whitequark.org/bitcoin-wizards/">Alternative #bitcoin-wizards logs here</a></li>
25 <li><a href="http://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizards/">Old #bitcoin-wizards logs here</a></li>
26 <li><a href="http://bitcoin.sipa.be/">Sipa's hashrate statistics</a></li>
27 <li><a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/alt_ideas">Gmaxwell's alt-ideas page</a></li>
28 <li><a herf="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardfork_Wishlist">Hardfork wishlist</a></li>
29 <li><a href="http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/">Bitcoin-related papers archived by kanzure</a></li>
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32 Papers of interest:
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34 <li><a href="http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BMCNKF15-IEEESP-bitcoin.pdf">Bitcoin systematization of knowledge</a></li>
35 <li><a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0243v5.pdf">Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable</a></li>
36 <li><a href="http://freico.in/docs/freimarkets.pdf">Freimarkets: a bitcoin extension to support user issued assets, p2p lending, options and more.</a></li>
37 <li><a href="http://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf">Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains</a></li>
38 <li><a href="https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf">Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System</a></li>
39 <li><a href="http://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf">Lightning Network: Payment Channel Networks Squared</a></li>
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42 <a href="http://sagemath.org/">Sage</a> notebooks:
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44 <li><a href="secp256k1.ecdsa.sage">ECDSA with secp256k1</a></li>
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47 Implementations of cool things:
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49 <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin">The one that started it all</a></li>
50 <li><a href="https://github.com/unsystem/paypub">PayPub: Trustless payments for information publishing on Bitcoin</a></li>
51 <li><a href="https://github.com/zw/PoLtree/">proving Bitcoin liabilities, in Clojure.</a> or <a href="https://github.com/olalonde/proof-of-liabilities">Proof of Liabilities, in JavaScript</a></li>
52 <li><a href="https://github.com/petertodd/timelock">Create a secret key that can be decrypted in a known amount of time using parallel-serial hash chains.</a></li>
53 <li><a href="https://github.com/Blockstream/contracthashtool">Pay to Contract Hash calculator</a></li>
54 <li><a href="https://github.com/vinumeris/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/Design%20doc.md">Lighthouse - simple SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY multi-party payments</a></li>
55 <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2015-November/000344.html">The "Mysterious 57" scriptPubkey template which can only be spent by revealing its key.</a></li>
56 <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoinfibre/bitcoinfibre">Bitcoin FIBRE: A fast-block-relay implementation using UDP and Forward Error Correction with super reliable performance</a></li>
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