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Bitcoin.org core development contributor Jeff Garzik (@JGarzik) spoke at the Bitcoin Conference 2012 on the State Of The Coin.  The slides are available as a PDF.   Excerpts:

“Bitcoin reference client changes: [excerpt is just a partial list]
 - Internal test suite greatly improved;
 - IPv6, SOCKS5, Tor/I2P hidden service
 - Multi-Signature transactions are now standard
 - Raw transaction RPC API
 - Block download speed-up (better, but still painful)”
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“Bitcoin ecosystem: [excerpt is just a partial list]
 - Users: Difficult to estimate, but probably over 500,000 at this point.
 - Exchanges: Learning lessons. Trial by fire.”

- http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/2012/state-of-the-coin-2012.pdf (PDF)
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=109920.0 (Further discussion of this document)

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