Convener: John Zhang

Notetaker: Tom Brown

Ethereum - turing complete cryptocurrency

Primecoin - high performance client

DSH - distributed shell

distributed mining

arbitrage availability

CEX.io - exchange for selling mining rates

relationship between cryptocurrency and regulatory processes of nation states

Bitpay CEO Tony Gallippi said to something like: look at bitcoin like the internet, take a wait and see attitude and allow it to flourish.

people get jittery about currency where they don't about technology

government will regulate bitcoin just like casino chips

sell somebody private key (need to be careful with how you do this)

digital ocean for primecoin mining - can create one vps and replicate as many as you want.

usability and risk mitigation is all consumers care about

liberation tech group (stanford) - why are we not further along with pgp adoption?

what happens to bitcoin if sha-256 is broken?

cointerra (austin) - lots of presales

what's going to happen with the disruption of going from centralized to decentralized?