This site is dedicated to providing Bitcoin experts and futurists (ie #bitcoin-wizards IRC participants) a place to put links, etc.
If you're a Bitcoin expert, ping BlueMatt for a email/subdomain on bitcoin.ninja.

Public summaries of some wizardly thinking:

• ASICs and Decentralization FAQ
• Proof of Stake
• A Treatise on Altcoins (wip)
• Output size obfuscation for Bytecoin
• There Is No 'From' Address
• Proving Your Bitcoin Reserves
• A discussion on soft fork activation concerns (alternative in mp3 format)

Useful resources:

• #bitcoin-wizards logs here
• Alternative #bitcoin-wizards logs here
• Old #bitcoin-wizards logs here
• Sipa's hashrate statistics
• Gmaxwell's alt-ideas page
• Hardfork wishlist
• Bitcoin-related papers archived by kanzure

Papers of interest:

• Bitcoin systematization of knowledge
• Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
• Freimarkets: a bitcoin extension to support user issued assets, p2p lending, options and more.
• Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains
• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
• Lightning Network: Payment Channel Networks Squared

Sage notebooks:

• ECDSA with secp256k1

Implementations of cool things:

• The one that started it all
• PayPub: Trustless payments for information publishing on Bitcoin
• proving Bitcoin liabilities, in Clojure. or Proof of Liabilities, in JavaScript
• Create a secret key that can be decrypted in a known amount of time using parallel-serial hash chains.
• Pay to Contract Hash calculator
• Lighthouse - simple SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY multi-party payments
• The "Mysterious 57" scriptPubkey template which can only be spent by revealing its key.
• Bitcoin FIBRE: A fast-block-relay implementation using UDP and Forward Error Correction with super reliable performance

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