20. Final Project Summary¶
Assignment
Make a separate final project page that briefly summarizes your project.
Brief Project Description
Bitcoin was designed in order to restore control of currency to the people using it, and as it is becoming increasingly more widespread in its scope, various corporate monoliths are seeking to centralize this revolutionary currency and leverage it to their own benefit, effectively compromising the entire ethos of the currency. My final project seeks to restore the decentralization to the currency when used in in-person goods-based crypto transactions that are currently controlled by credit card monoliths that issue crypto-based credit cards. I have accomplished this by designing and fabricating an open-source prototype of a truly decentralized Bitcoin credit card system for my final project. My project employs an RFID module that is connected to a custom designed and fabbed circuit board which scans the unique UID's stored on each RFID card. The UID's of the cards are sent via SPI to the inupt board and then communicated to an FTDI chip via the TX line on the RFID input board. The FTDI then sends the UID of the card via serial to a Raspberry Pi that runs the code for my interface, automates the crytpocurrency transactions, and parses through my user database whenever a UID is sent to the Pi. While security was not a major concern during the development process of this first prototype of my project, I plan to re-iterate upon this project in the future with security as a paramount concern. My complete documentation is located on the 'final project' page of this site.