Need to close some tabs, here are some links of interest:
- Quickcoin an HTML 5 wallet built into Facebook
- Neuroware – neat stack from Mark Smalley over at the 500 Startups accelerator
- The Digital Path: Smart Contracts and the Third World by Mark S. Miller
- Truthcoin – decentralized prediction market (wonder if they have spoken with lawyers?)
- Bitcoin TOP-500 Richest – not the most definitive list, just the top 20
- Lighthouse from Mike Hearn (decentralized crowdfunding platform built on the Bitcoin protocol)
- Proof of deposit – an alternative to Proof of work
- How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization comment from Peter Todd
- Transfer Infrastructure – New Generation Protocols from IceCubed
- Kenya’s BitPesa Launches Beta Test of Remittance Service from The Wall Street Journal
- Bitreserve (talk to lawyers?)
- Mintchalk (I’ve met with the two devs, looks real — now if only Ethereum would actually ship production code and indemnify the users…)
- Fawkescoin, Mixcoin, Permacoin from Andrew Miller et al.
- CryptoNote and Bytecoin
- Game Theory, Assurance Contracts, and Crowdfunding with Bitcoin by Arianna Simpson
- Bitcoin Trading Platform Atlas Partners With National Stock Exchange from The Wall Street Journal
- The story of NEA and CloudFlare: From sandwiches to $1B valuation from BizJournal
- New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement from RJMetrics (look at that hockey stick curve)
- Secrecy, Authentication, And Public Key Systems by Ralph Merkle (his original thesis)