Hi All.
I didn't make it to the presentation, but I downloaded the bitcoin
software and tried it out. It pretty much rendered my pc un-usable
after a couple of mins until I managed to close it via the file menu.
Some how it caused my machine to swap like hell, and xorg ended up
using several gigs of ram, see the top image attached.
My pc is reasonably powerful, 6 gig ram, quad core cpu etc. running
ubuntu 11.04, a 1gb gfx card so I wouldn't expect this to cause it to
act like a lemon.
Any one got any ideas, I ran the 64 bit gui version from the source
forge site...
cheers
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Hello All,
Here is some more information from Greg's note at last Friday's
presentation.
I'd also like to thank Greg for volunteering to talk and for such a
well presented and technical topic. Seeing the data miner in
action was also a bonus.
Attached is the email that Greg sent to Bruce and myself earlier
this week. It seems as though there is plenty more reading on the
topic.
I've also loaded Greg's presentation to google docs so that those
that weren't at the meeting can appreciate the presentation.
Hi Chris, Bruce,
as discussed here's the slideshow and talk-notes from last night I
promised I'd send to you to forward on to relevant people,
(group-wide
bounced me on the email size limit).
Also here's a list of relevant links as requested;
Project home page
http://www.bitcoin.org/ [1]
Wiki Main_Page
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page [2]
Network status live feed
http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ [3]
Forum
https://forum.bitcoin.org/ [4]
Layman promo video site
http://www.weusecoins.com/ [5]
Instawallet (web wallet)
https://www.instawallet.org [6]
API -reference pages
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_(JSON-RPC) [7]
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list
[8]
Monetary theory - Austrian economics
http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/18/the-economics-of-bitcoin-how-bitcoins-act-as-money/
[9]
http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/05/the-best-of-modern-austrian-monetary-theory.html
[10]
http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae9_4_5.pdf [11]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School [12]
http://mises.org/ [13]
Szabo bitgold post
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html [14]
Namecoin, distributed DNS Dot-bit project homepage
http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page [15]
Feel free to email me for further links or information.
Cheers,
Greg B.
Link to Greg's Bit Coin presentation [16]
Link to Gregs' presentation notes [17]
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Links:
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[1] http://www.bitcoin.org/
[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
[3] http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/
[4] https://forum.bitcoin.org/
[5] http://www.weusecoins.com/
[6] https://www.instawallet.org/
[7] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_%28JSON-RPC%29
[8] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list
[9]
http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/18/the-economics-of-bitcoin-how-bitcoins-act-as-money/
[10]
http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/05/the-best-of-modern-austrian-monetary-theory.html
[11] http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae9_4_5.pdf
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
[13] http://mises.org/
[14] http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html
[15] http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
[16]
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