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Meetup Announcement:
This workshop provided the resources and the concept of BitCoin.
Speaker: Vivian Zhang
Vivian Zhang is Co-Founder/CTO for SupStat Inc(a consulting company specialized in statistical computing using open technologies), and organizer for NYC Open Data Meetup Group and New York R User Group which offers two to three meetups/week for the past 9 months.
She also founded NYC Data Science Academy which offers intensive Data Science classes covering R, Python, D3.js, Hadoop,Node.js, Mongodb, processing in classroom and online (see www.nycdatascience.com or www.meetup.com/nyc-data-science-academ).
Outline:
I: A brief introduction about P2P network.
II: BitCoin:
- The fundamental paper by Satoshi Nakamot
- Feature: Based on algorithm and public recognition, Decentralized
- Scracity, Mining, SHA256, Easy to exam, limit of speed
- Comparing to Gold. Does BitCoin worth it?
- Is BitCoin a Ponzi Scheme?
- BitCoin and Anarchism
- Problems: Copycats, Deflation, Anti-Conservation
- How to maintain and manage the P2P network?
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References:
Bitcoin main site: https://bitcoin.org/
Bitcoin Mining Pool https://www.btcguild.com/
Bitcoin Miner https://deepbit.net/
Bitcoin Wallet https://multibit.org/