User talk:Canton

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I am offering you help in understanding Bitcoin technically - How Bitcoin works and related technologies

Bitcoin consists of SHA-256(redirects to SHA-2) and Digital signatures. I'm offering you help in learning more about these technologies. My motivation is that you contribute to the Bitcoin article and to have a neutral point of view I think it is helpful to understand the technologies used in Bitcoin. I'm not implying you are not having a NPOV but I'm simply offering my knowledge in helping you understand more about how Bitcoin works, is that an interesting proposition? Best wishes, Logictheo (talk) 23:09, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Logictheo! I'll definitely send you a message if I run up against my limits of knowledge. For the time being I feel like I've got a good technical grasp of the fundamentals of Bitcoin, and even a reasonable understanding of RSA & elliptic curve cryptography after reading this great primer: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/ Canton (talk) 18:45, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

RSA & elliptic curve encryption?

That arstechnica article has 3/3 pages devoted to encryption only. Τhe 3rd page doesn't mention specifically that Bitcoin uses only digital signatures, and no encryption but it has a link to Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm Bitcoin uses no encryption as part of value transfer, still that article might be interesting for those who wish to learn how Tor or https works. More knowledge can't be bad but still isn't directly related to Bitcoin. Logictheo (talk) 07:25, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I do agree

I have a bad temper and bad manners, but I do agree and think it is fully right you go ahead with that revert. You would do the unbiased nature of the Bitcoin article a huge favor. Logictheo (talk) 15:12, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Do you accept Bitcoin for your Wikipedia contributions?

Hi. Do you accept Bitcoin for your Wikipedia(or to sister projects) contributions? Sometimes there are Wikimedia donation drives and they don't take Bitcoin. Do you? Logictheo (talk) 14:51, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]