Atlantis, 245
Australia, 44–45, 117, 168, 171
Automated Clearing House (ACH), 133
Avalon (ASIC), 190, 206
Back, Adam, 17–22, 339, 348
Baidu (Chinese search engine), 261–
262
bank bailout of 2008, 32, 111
Bank of America, 272
Bates, Richard, 75–77, 115–116
bee-te-bee (Chinese Bitcoin), 255–256
Beijing Summer Olympics (2008), 145
Benchmark Capital, 282, 293, 305
Bernanke, Ben, 266
Bezos, Jeff, 353
Bharara, Preet, 299–300
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
353–355
Bitcoin
arrival of Gavin Andresen, 44–47
arrival of Martti Malmi, 29–30
building trust, 24–25, 33, 48, 61–62,
69, 99–100, 279, 315, 339
buying/selling with, 43–44, 82, 119–
120, 129–130
changing business model, 236–239
characterization as “cryptocurrency,”
36
comparison to gold, 157–158, 165,
182
comparison to paper money, 219,
286–287
creation and operation of original
code, 4–6, 20–24
disappearance of Satoshi Nakamoto,
x–xiii
hacking and scandals, 91–99
increasing price/value, 38, 66–69, 79,
81–85, 89–91, 131, 175, 180, 184,
193–196, 204–206, 210–211, 250–
253, 262–264, 267, 271–275, 284–
285
legality/government regulation, 196–
198, 251
limitations based upon computers, 347
Mt. Gox collapse busts bubble, 308–
317
origin and ideology, vii–xv, 5, 113–
114
as Ponzi scheme, 220
proof-of-work, 18–19
Bitcoin Foundation
candidacy of Bobby Lee, 345
dealing with Bitcoin collapse, 314–
315
Gavin Andresen as member, 192
involvement in Senate hearing, 265–
267, 270, 300–302
Patrick Murck as member, 176
planning and creation of, 138–142
regulatory problems, 217–219, 233–
236
resignation of Charlie Shrem, 302
Bitcoinica, 237
Bitcoin Investment Trust, 314
Bitcoin Meetups. See conferences (Bitcoin and others)
Bitcoin mining
about process vulnerability, 41–42
creating blocks and recording
transactions, 359–361
creation of ASIC chip, 189–192, 259,
329–330
creation of Avalon chip, 190, 206
formation of mining companies, 294–
295, 328–329
formation of mining pools, 192–194
GPU technology, 42, 56, 189–191
growth in China, 259–261, 329
Litecoin mining, 283
more users increased difficulty, 53
role in securing system, 100
Satoshi Nakamoto patterns, 324
specialized computers/computing
power, 105, 170, 190, 233, 324, 330,
347
The Bitcoin Show (TV program), 102, 128
Bitcoin software
about operation, 23, 357–362
beta testing, 25–26, 58
changes to code, 22–24, 35–39, 43–
46, 55–58, 61–62, 141, 309, 346–
347
creating/maintaining protocol, x, 5–6,
32, 99, 215–216
creation and launch, xiv, 30–31, 319,
346
downloads, 49–51, 80, 237, 261
Google interest, 100–102
hard fork, 193, 195
“1 RETURN” bug, 56
role of public-key
cryptography, 9–10, 17–18
running on Macintosh, 41
transaction malleability problem, 309–
314
updates and old versions, 37, 59, 193–
195
version 0.2, 37
version 0.3, 47–48
version 0.319, 59
version 0.7, 194–195
version 0.8, 194–195
The Bitcoin Trader (blog), 195
Bitcoin White Paper, 21, 45, 339
Bitfury, 330
bit gold, 18, 338–339
BitInstant. See also Shrem, Charlie attracting investors, 130–135
creation and function, 128–130
dealing with problems and
competitors, 201–207
hacker penetration, 150
investment by David Azar, 134, 150–
151
investment by Roger Ver, 128
investment by Winklevoss twins, ix,
173–176, 211–215
involvement of Erik Voorhees, 135–
137
management problems, 220–222
regulatory problems, 222–224
trading volume, 201, 205–207
BitLicense, 302, 317
Bitomat (Polish exchange), 97–98
BitPagos (Argentinian payment
service), 278–279
BitPay, 134, 211, 219, 272
Bitstamp (Slovenian exchange)
about founding, 203
attendance at 2014 Bitcoin Pacifica,
252–253, 337
regulation of virtual currencies, 271
response to Mt. Gox collapse, 309–
310, 315
surpassing Mt. Gox volume, 236
trading volume, 262–263, 267
working with banks, 327
blind digital signatures, 12
blockchain
banking interest in the technology,
324–328
Bitcoin transfers, 97–98, 133, 148,
182, 203–204, 235–237
creation and function, 21–26, 43, 55,
61, 340
dealing with hard fork, 193–194
generating new coins, 361–362
increasing file size, 100–101
sidechains, 348
use by mining pools, 191–194
use by money transfer projects, 188–
189, 336
winning acceptance and approval,
269–274, 289–290, 345
winning blocks, 361
Blockchain.info, 237–241, 252, 270,
315, 330–331
Blodget, Henry, 182–184
Bloomberg, Michael, 144, 325
b-money, 339
Branson, Richard, 297
Briger, Pete, 163–165, 201, 236, 252–
253, 281–283, 287–288, 302, 342–
343. See also Fortress Investment Group
Brito, Jerry, 79–80
Bruno, Joe Bel, 322
BTC China, 255–264, 267–269, 275,
284–285, 300, 315, 343–345. See
also China
BTC Guild, 195
BTC King (screen name). See Faiella, Robert
Buffett, Warren, 353
Burges, Kolin, 310–312
Business Insider, 184
BusinessWeek, 197
Byrne, Patrick, 289
Canada, launch of Mint Chip, 133
Carper, Thomas (senator), 235, 267–
268
Cary, Nic, 239, 252, 296–298, 333
Casares, Belle, 154, 162, 243, 352
Casares, Wences. See also Lemon
Digital Wallet and Xapo
background and arrival at Bitcoin,
153–165
Bitcoin as commodity, 274
Bitcoin holdings, 287–288
Bitcoin promotion, 179–180, 185–
187, 197, 209–210
Bitcoin promotion in Argentina, 240–
242
conference attendance, 181–185, 214–
216, 349, 351–355
development of Lemon Digital Wallet,
201–205
sale of Lemon Digital Wallet, 252,
280–283
seeking business investors, 291–296
startup business financing, 305–306
2013 Argentina, Bitcoin meeting, 277
Xapo founding and operations, 349–
351
Casascius coins, 126–127
chronicpain (screen name). See Green, Curtis
cimon (screen name). See Variety Jones
[vj]
cirrus (screen name), 246–248
Chaum, David, 10, 12, 23, 71. See also DigiCash
China, xiii, 128, 183, 190–191, 273–
275, 280, 329. See also BTC China CIA. See U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Coinapult, 174, 338
Coinbase (Bitcoin service). See also Ehrsam, Fred
about the founding and operation,
203–204, 211–213
investment by Andreessen Horowitz,
293–295
maintaining private keys, 281
regulation of virtual currencies, 271