Fifty Developers Hack With Bitcoin for Two Days in San Francisco

[jamie.redman1]

This past week on March 24 the San Francisco-based Hackreactor HQ and the bitcoin company Purse introduced bitcoin to over fifty developers with its “Bcoin Hackathon.” The bitcoin-centric hackathon included two days of programmers experimenting with the alternative Bcoin protocol and the process of building with bitcoin.

A group of hackers consisting of young developers and senior level engineers gathered at the Hackreactor to develop ideas utilizing the bitcoin protocol. Attendees worked with the client Bcoin an alternative bitcoin implementation written in (javascript) node.js. The Bcoin protocol was created by software developer Christopher Jeffrey, the Chief Technical Officer at Purse.

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[Rmcdermott927]

A lot of cool things happen at hacking cons when it comes to Bitcoin. We learned how incredibly insecure brainwallets were a few years ago when Brain Flayer was released (a c++ Brain wallet cracker).

We also learned about a potential attack against casascius holograms at the same convention.

[bitkilo]

A lot of cool things happen at hacking cons when it comes to Bitcoin. We learned how incredibly insecure brainwallets were a few years ago when Brain Flayer was released (a c++ Brain wallet cracker).

We also learned about a potential attack against casascius holograms at the same convention.

I didn't hear anything about the casascius hologram attacks can you post a link, I would be interested in reading about that one.