Comments on: [Event] The Fundamentals of Bitcoin at Towerlab

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[...] The fundamentals of Bitcoin. [...]

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[...] Baxter's in 2020 and 2021, Identity Money and Banking in the Internet Age at La Manzana in 2022 and The Fundamentals of Bitcoin at Towerlab last month. [...]

By: Robinson Dorion

Robinson Dorion — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:44:08 +0000

@Diana Coman, ah, you did not miss it in the presentation, it was I who neglected to include it ! Thank you for reminding me and I will be sure to discuss with him either here or in sidebar in case he has questions.

By: Diana Coman

Diana Coman — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:49:26 +0000

Apologies if this was part of the live presentation and I just missed it from the video but it might be of interest to point out that there is already an accounting standard for Bitcoin businesses, namely the MPEx standard, produced as early as 2013 and publicly used for instance by Minigame during the whole of its activity, from 2013 to 2021. I'm mentioning the above specifically since I understand (from public statements as reported in the press, e.g. by Tim Alper for Cryptonews.com) that Rodrigo Icaza from the Chamber of Digital Commerce and Blockchain of Panama would like to see more formalized statements from Bitcoin businesses to help their interfacing/interaction with fiat banks. The above standard specification and its available, public use can serve perhaps as a more concrete starting point for promoting both practice and further discussion on this topic, if desired.

By: Robinson Dorion

Robinson Dorion — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:08:32 +0000

Updated with links to the video recordings, presentation slides and a pic of the attendees. The video was streamed to instabook, from which some viewers submitted questions at the end.

We tried making a recording with my Sony DSC-RX100. it recorded the first 1/3 or so, but then shutoff for a yet to be determined reason, it had plenty of battery.

My delivery can use some further polishing, but from the feedback so far, the content was impactful.

One contradiction I made was "there's no such thing as random numbers, but only random processes from which random numbers are mined/extracted." The numbers are never random, only the processes from which said numbers can be extracted from are.

I also said the hardware TRNG I showed is a "pseudorandom generator". The output is NOT psuedorandom, but cryptographic randomness ! (facepalm) Read more about the device here. Apologies.

Questions/comments from any asynchronous viewers are of course welcome here.

Further articles to flesh out further some of the ideas discussed are forthcoming.

Thanks again to Rodrigo Icaza and Towerbank for having me.