Congratulazioni!!

RGB is a second layer protocol to enable asset issuance and contracts on top of Bitcoin. The protocol leverages the paradigm of client-side validation to keep all the RGB specific transaction data off-chain, using the Bitcoin blockchain only as a commitment layer to protect from double spending. This enables greater scalability, as the blockchain usage is reduced, better privacy, as no data is visible to the blockchain observer, and more flexibility, as the protocol is not constrained by the data structure of Bitcoin transactions.

I consider this a great innovation on Bitcoin as it can bring more use cases while maximising privacy and scalability, and it doesn't require any soft fork. It work on Bitcoin as is. There are already a few wallets supporting RGB that people can play with. To learn more about the protocol the best resource is https://rgb.info/

Per chi non lo conoscesse già RGB è un progetto per permettere l'emissione e il trasferimento di token e asset sulla blockchain di Bitcoin attraverso l'uso di smart contract off-chain. Non viene utilizzata alcuna sidechain o altre soluzioni che comportano trade-off di trust e sicurezza, ma ogni transazione avviene direttamente su Bitcoin attraverso un processo di commitment del trasferimento RGB dentro una transazione Bitcoin. Essendo costruito sopra Bitcoin è compatibile anche con il Lightning Network e con eventuali altre soluzioni di scalabilità che verranno sviluppate in futuro su Bitcoin.

Per approfondire, e per riferimenti a wallet da testare, il sito di riferimento è rgb.info

For anyone interested in RGB there is this new educational website with a lot of good explanations and resources
https://rgb.info/

True, but in this case I preferred to replicate the security model people are already used to with other valuables: you just have to keep it safe from thieves, and you don't have to remember passwords or mnemonics. For non-bitcoiners the main risk of losses comes from themselves, not from thieves

Yeah I paid the premium more for the look than for durability concerns. Non-bitcoiners may not be able to fully appreciate a piece of paper with few words written on it, and may easily lose it within few years, so I wanted something that looked cool and that they would keep safe as if it was regular jewellery.

Hello, the author of the article here. I agree that there will always be a way in the future to use past technology, surely you.  can buy all the necessary adapters on Amazon and find some software to derived an HD seed  with an out of fashion standard, but one of my design goals was to keep things simple. Today it would be annoying and time consuming to buy a floppy disk reader for a single use, and in the future it could be even worst: it's not hard to imagine a future were teenagers are totally foreign to the idea of physically connect an external storage to their device, as wireless and cloud alternatives become more popular. Obviously I may be wrong on this, the truth is that we just cannot know how consumer grade technology will evolve, so avoiding electronic devices all together seemed like the safest option to keep the redeem phase simple.

Moreover writing down a key on a physical support is just more reliable for long term storage than any digital storage medium.

Poloniex stole some shitcoin of mine over 3 months ago and there is no way I can get any reply, I think legal actions are the only solution at this point

btcpy v0.2 released, SegWit addresses and BIP32 HD derivation are now supported. Please also check the backward compatibility part for API breaking changes

https://github.com/chainside/btcpy/releases/tag/0.2

If you are a dev please have a look

https://blog.chainside.net/btcpy-released-a-full-featured-bitcoin-library-10f1b81e2ad0

https://github.com/chainside/btcpy

Hi guys,
we are working on a BIP proposal for Lightning-oriented multi-account multisig HD wallets, any feedback is highly appreciated

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6wqb7q/bip_proposal_for_lightningoriented_multiaccount/

The commitments are in fact transactions that can be pushed on the blockchain in case the counterparty tries to scam you. So if you want to close tha payment channel but the other party disappears, you can broadcast the last commitment and both get the money according to the last state of the channel.
If one of the parties tries to broadcast a commitment transaction that represents an older state of the channel, using the hashes and the preimages you can block him and punish him for the scam attempt.

It is a different security model than Bitcoin since you have to be online to check you don't get scammed, or you have to delegate someone to monitor the blockchain for you (can be done without trust), but still it's a pretty solid security model since it is build on top of the blockchain.

Here there is a cool experiment, using a Bitcoin bidirectional payment channel to do transactions off-chain and exchanging secrets and commitment transaction on Twitter.

Have a look at this thread: https://twitter.com/FedericoTenga/status/900541985790078976

Link a video e slide dell'evento dello scorso 10 luglio:

- Riccardo Casatta - Open Timestamps
📂 slides: https://goo.gl/GY6dwd
🎦 video: https://youtu.be/nB0BHSqevew

- Simone Bronzini - Introduzione a SegWit 
📂 slides: https://goo.gl/SRZ62m
🎦  video: https://youtu.be/4BzEKg-M2eM

Con un po' di ritardo abbiamo caricato tutto, video e slide ai seguenti link:

- Riccardo Casatta - Open Timestamps
📂 slides: https://goo.gl/GY6dwd
🎦 video: https://youtu.be/nB0BHSqevew

- Simone Bronzini - Introduzione a SegWit 
📂 slides: https://goo.gl/SRZ62m
🎦  video: https://youtu.be/4BzEKg-M2eM

Alla fine pultroppo non siamo riusciti ad attrezzarci in tempo per lo streaming, però abbiamo le registrazioni e a breve le pubblicheremo assieme alle slide degli speaker.

Ci stiamo attrezzando, lo streaming ancora non lo garantiamo ma sicuramente ci saranno i video disponibili dei giorni successivi.

Nel caso riuscissimo ad attrezzarci anche per lo streaming il link sarà disponibilie dalla pagina FB dell'evento

Il 10 luglio ci sarà un meetup Bitcoin organizzato dal BEN. Come ospiti ci sono Riccardo Casatta che parlerà di notarizzazione su blockchain e open timestamp e Simone Bronzini che parlerà di Segwit

Evento fb: https://www.facebook.com/events/447317135629595/
Evento meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Generation-Roma/events/241266421/
Biglietti su Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-blockchainedu-meetup-roma-35736918084

L'ingresso è gratuito ma per avere accesso garantito è necessario registrarsi su Eventbrite

Il 10 luglio ci sarà un meetup molto interessante. Come ospiti ci sono Riccardo Casatta che parlerà di notarizzazione su blockchain e open timestamp e Simone Bronzini che parlerà di Segwit

Evento fb: https://www.facebook.com/events/447317135629595/
Biglietti su Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-blockchainedu-meetup-roma-35736918084

L'ingresso è gratuito ma per avere accesso garantito è necessario registrarsi su Eventbrite

Bitcoin Suisse was originally a Bitcoin atm company, but recently started to offer a service where they let you participate to ICOs' pre-sales using their platform, paying a fixed fee of 100chf.

I recently used their service to join the Bancor ICO, and soon I realized they were not competent for such a delicate job. To join the pre-sale they sent me an email where they asked me to sent ETH to their address. Due to security concerns I asked they message with the eth address to be sign with PGP or some equivalent authentication method, but I received no reply at all.
When the pre-sale period was soon to be over, I decided to send the ether anyway and hope for the best.

Now that the Bancor tokens have been released, Bitcoin Suisse just disappeared. I sent to the so called "head of ICO" Nicolai Oster the ETH address where I wish to receive the tokens (PGP signed) but received no reply. I asked on twitter if they were going to give the tokens to the owners but no reply. I sent another email putting in cc everyone working in the company asking if I should consider myself scammed and still received no reply.

At this point I think Bitcoin Suisse is either extremely incompetent or just  a bunch of scammer. Even if they will eventually send the tokens, I don't recommend anyone to use their service, they don't understand what it means to handle other people money and they are not qualified for the job.

Is there anybody out there who had similar experiences?