Presentation I gave at WebCamp KL - specifically targeted at designers and web-developers. Why should web developers care about Bitcoin, what's the big deal?

1. PROGRAMMABLE-MONEY
( the somewhat visual guide to bitcoin as a technology )

2. But first, I have a confession …

4. WHAT IS BITCOIN …?
• Is it a Commodity, Currency or Technology …?
• For this presentation - it is all about FREEDOM
• When referring to Bitcoin in this presentation,
I am referring to decentralized trust …
(aka The Block-Chain)
• Public ledgers enforcing transparency …
• But won’t, under ANY circumstances talk politics!

5. EXCEPT THIS – FROM VISUAL GUIDE TO CYPRO-CURRENCIES
http://slidesha.re/ZBLJXM
( the final straw )

6. But seriously, no politics!
( just technicalities – and google )

7. BITCOIN SUCKS
930,000 RESULTS
https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+sucks

8. BITCOIN ROCKS
65,400,000 RESULTS
https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+rocks

9. 70 times as good as its not!
( and it seems I am not alone in thinking so )

10. Bitcoin will do to banks what
email did to the postal industry
-- Rick Falkvinge (Swedish Politician)
Bitcoin is a techno tour de force
-- Bill Gates (Redistributed BASIC)

11. DO WE NOT ALREADY HAVE PROGRAMMABLE MONEY?
• Square, Stripe, V.me, Simple, etc …
• Only available to developers in States / Europe
• Local alternatives are complicated, costly & useless
• No options for instant starts …
• No options for anonymity or the billions of us unbanked
• And this makes me angrier than I am with most things

12. A DEVELOPER WITHOUT CHOICE IS AN UNHAPPY DEVELOPER

13. BITCOIN TECHNOLOGY STACK
• Uses LevelDB to access (via JSON) a globally
distributed public ledger of all transactions
• Send and receive payments instantly and directly via
JSON-RPC calls from any server-side language …
• Existing wrappers, frameworks, documentation,
libraries and support for PHP, Ruby, NodeJS
• Still in Beta (0.8) with Market Cap of US$2 Billion
• Version 0.9 to bring payment requests and receipts!

14. WHY IS IT PROGRAMMABLE …?
• An open API available to anyone
• Where transaction fees and identification are optional
• All the underlying technologies are OpenSource
• No central authority to prevent innovation
• Easily accessible, always-on and always neutral
• It can be easily embedded into hardware, such as …

15. THE BITCOIN AND RASPBERRY PI POWERED POOL TABLE
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-pool-table-raspberry-pi/

16. RASPBERRY PI POWERED PAPER WALLET PRINTER
http://piper.pw/

17. BITCOIN ATMs GALORE

18. TOLD YOU SO!!!

19. BITCOIN AS THE PAYMENT PROTCOL OF THE WEB
• Being open and programmable is one thing…
• Being something that is not email-based in trust is another…
• As a web-based technology, it is a server waiting for JSON-RPC
requests with simple functions (example in PHP) such as:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------$fbi_address = ‘1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX’;
$transaction_id = $api->btc(array(
'function‘
=> 'send',
'options'
=> array(
'to'
=> $fbi_address,
'amount'
=> 0.00000001
)
));

20. Crypto-Currencies are decentralized
payment APIs for the web, available to
anyone with internet, no questions asked
( perfect for content pay-walls – ask me after )

21. BEATCOIN (BITCOIN POWERED JUKEBOX)
http://tcrn.ch/Hp34jx

22. BITVEGAS (CASINO IN MINECRAFT)

23. TRSST (DECENTRALIZED MARKETING)

24. BIT-MESSAGE (DECENTRALIZED COMMUNICATION)

25. But that’s way too technical
( which is why there are so many opportunities for techies )

26. THE FUTURE – PROJECT KEYHOTEE
http://invictus-innovations.com/keyhotee/

27. THANKS FOR LISTENING
LEARN MORE - @m_smalley
HAPPY-HACKING