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Appendix A: Bitcoin financial services

This appendix describes the main financial services offered in the bitcoin economy, comparing them to traditional financial services that are already familiar to consumers. It’s not a list of sites or companies, as that would go stale immediately. Instead it is a list of service primitives with examples of existing implementations. For example, an escrow service would be described as an archetype, by analogy to a real-estate escrow, showing the unique characteristics, use case and need for escrow in the bitcoin world. The escrow service archetype would be followed by two or three examples of well implemented actual escrow services, each demonstrating a capability unique to bitcoin.

Currency Exchanges

Bitcoin market data services

Bitcoin ticker, order book, chart and analysis services

Peer-to-peer exchange

OTC and Web-of-Trust (WoT)

Escrow services

Monitoring services

Alert and notification services

Lending

P2P Lending

Securities

Mutual Funds

Angel investing

Appendix: Bitcoin markets and applications

As above, this appendix describes services offered in the bitcoin economy. Each service is described a a service archetype which is compared to a real-world example familiar to anyone. The description of such a service is followed by real-world examples that express these bitcoin features.

Currency transfer

US domestic

Other in-country

International

Retail commerce

Physical (tangible) goods

Intangible products

Services

Technology services

Re-selling and Cross-selling

Wholesale commerce

Appendix: Bitcoin Protocol Structure and Conventions

Reference index of main protocol primitives, packet structure, opcodes, state enumerations, protocol mechanics, time diagrams and protocol validation mechanisms.

Appendix: Bitcoin Transaction Script Operands and Tokens

More reference material as above

Appendix: Bitcoin Cryptography Algorithms, Conventions and Conversions.

More reference material as above

Appendix: Bitcoin Meta-protocols: Mining Pool Protocols, Lightweight Client Protocols

More reference material as above