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Bitcoin 101 - Calling All APIs - Coding Live Price Data From Bitcoin Exchanges
Confused about APIs and JSON? Looking to run an arbitrage business or build a data intensive site? Well this video is for you. This is the first of our videos looking at programming calls for exchange data. In just a few lines of code, we grab the last price from four exchanges (Btc-e, Kraken, Bitstamp and Bitfinex) and pseudo exchange extraordinaire, Coinbase. James walks you through the first steps of building a live feed of this data.
As usual, all our code is on GitHub for you to rip apart...
Related topics : bitcoin live price api / coinbase bitcoin price api / bitcoin price exchange / what does a bitcoin code look like
Bitcoin 101 - Fun with Brain Wallets (Making and Playing With Them) - Bitcoin Security
There's no idea in Bitcoin more science fiction ready than the idea of brain wallets. To actually hold your wealth inside your head (and no where else) is something that can be done only with bitcoins. In this video we set up and play with a number of brain wallets (of course they aren't really brain wallets if we tell everyone the passwords and private keys...but you get the idea). Whether you are a fiction writer or an escaping refugee, this video is for you.
Welcom to WBN's Bitcoin 101...
Related topics : make a secure bitcoin wallet
Bitcoin 101 - What is Bitcoin?
This is the definitive introduction to Bitcoin. Without diving too deep into the code, James brings you to understand why Bitcoin works and why it has such power.
This video is the result of a talk we did at Harvard University in April 2014 for Bitcoin beginners. Many of them mentioned that this talk helped them to finally understood the basic idea and we hope it works for you too. Even better, it is a story, covering the failures and difficulties of creating a digital currency, so for...
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Bitcoin 101 - Quindecillions & The Amazing Math Of Bitcoin's Private Keys
How do you slow down hackers and provide equal access to everyone on earth? Not easy. But Bitcoin's solution is devilishly simple, employing outrageously big numbers. Bitcoin's private keys are made of numbers (called quindecillions) that are so large, they literally choke the best computers. In fact even if all the world's computers were able to work together, these numbers would still be too large. By using an analogy to drawers and pirates, James dives into this math, revealing not only how...
Related topics : all bitcoin private keys
Bitcoin 101 - A Million Killer Apps - Part 1 - Smart Contracts & Bitcoin's Big Bang of Disruption
Too often a conversation about Bitcoin leads to some sketpic suggesting that Bitcoin has no killer app to take it to the next level. Nothing could be further from the truth. We've grouped together all the currently, under development, and already launched killer apps of Bitcoin, and in short order they became too numerous to count. So we had to break them up into three big videos which we've decided to call 'A Million Killer Apps'. Wall Street take note, most of what you do is on the list....
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