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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
This article is now available in Japanese: 紙と鉛筆でビットコインをマイニング：1日に0.67ハッシュ and Russian: Майним Bitcoin с помощью бумаги и ручки . I decided...
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 20 posts.
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Minimum Viable Block Chain
Block chain is agnostic of any 'currency' and it can (and will) be adapted to power many other use cases. This is a ground up explanation of why the particular pieces (digital signatures, proof-of-work, transaction blocks) are needed, and how they all come together to form the minimum viable block chain with all of…
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Stellar
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox
Somewhere in December 2013, a number of traders including myself began noticing suspicious bot behavior on Mt. Gox. Basically, a random number between 10 and 20 bitcoin would be bought every 5-10 m…
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Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol
All the recent media attention on Bitcoin inspired me to learn how Bitcoin really works, right down to the bytes flowing through the netwo...
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Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Bitcoin contracts
Bitcoin is designed to support a wide variety of transaction types. Although currently the majority of transactions are standard payments to address it is possible to build more complex protocols.
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Reading the Silk Road configuration
Many of us believe it wasn't the FBI who discovered the hidden Silk Road server, but the NSA (or other intelligence organization). We believ...
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Ethereum: A Turing-Complete Cryptocurrency
A full overview of what Ethereum is, how it works, what it does and how to start using or building on it. Explained in simple terms.
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EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers
As the popularity of Bitcoins has increased, government officials are concerned about criminal activity associated with the virtual currency. But a recent subpoena issued by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs to 19-year-old Bitcoin developer and MIT student Jeremy Rubin goes too far, and...
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Minting Money with Monero and CPU Vector Intrinsics
A blog about computer science, systems, technology, and sometimes vegan cooking.
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Bitcoin transaction malleability: looking at the bytes
"Malleability" of Bitcoin transactions has recently become a major issue. This article looks at how transactions are modified, at the byte...
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Introducing Stellar: a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money
Stellar is a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies. This means users can, for ...