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Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 9 posts.
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Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
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The relay market powering token resellers and fraud
A look inside the gray-market reseller economy that gives mainland China cheap, structured, B2B-grade access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and beyond
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How Monero’s proof of work works
Monero does not use a simple fixed hash like Bitcoin. Its proof of work, RandomX, turns mining into running random CPU-friendly programs over a large memory dataset, which is why it behaves so differently from ASIC-first systems.
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The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M
Web3 security lessons from the Resolv hack: how a compromised key enabled a $23M exploit, what went wrong, and how DeFi protocols can prevent similar attacks.
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Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
We’re launching the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard, internet-native way for agents to pay—co-authored by Tempo and Stripe. Businesses on Stripe can accept payments over MPP in a few lines of code using our PaymentIntents API.
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Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
Malicious ClawdBot skills target ByBit, Polymarket, Axiom, Reddit and LinkedIn, installing malware on unsuspecting OpenClaw user machines.
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We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof
Trail of Bits discovered and disclosed two vulnerabilities in the widely used elliptic JavaScript library that could allow signature forgery or prevent valid signature verification, with one vulnerability still unfixed after the 90-day disclosure window.