The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 488 posts.
Large-scale quantum computers are capable of breaking all of the common forms of asymmetric cryptography used on the Internet today. Luckily, they don’t exist yet. The Internet-wide transition to post-quantum cryptography began in 2022 when NIST announced their final candidates for key exchange and signatures in the…
The majority of the EU Parliament's lead committees today approved far-reaching new anti-money laundering laws: Anonymous cash payments over €3,000 will be banned in commercial transactions. Cash payments over €10,000 will even be completely banned in business transactions. And anonymous payments in
Edit: There’s a short follow-up to this post: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up. tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it…
No. Not anymore. Because we have the data, if we are trading secondaries, people will always worry that we are using the data, even if we…
What is the point of a public key fingerprint? What does it do that the public key itself doesn't do. This post explains.
Chris Blec asks the following question: Source: Twitter Chris's premise is that it is "not illegal" for him to get together with a bunch of ...
A compilation of evidence that Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto were different people.
The jury got a taste of code review as they examined a falsified "insurance fund" and the infamous FTX → Alameda Research "backdoor".
PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of opening a traditional PayPal account to maint...
Worldcoin doesn't seem to know what problem it's trying to solve, but they want to scan your eyeballs anyway.
Get up close and personal with Schnorr and his now patent-free linear signature algorithm.
Coinbase is trotting out its usual flawed arguments now that it's facing a lawsuit from the SEC, and more pushback is needed.
Writeup of a tool for creating bitcoin stealing phishing clones of onion services on large scale
TLDR We have analyzed all Ordinal Inscriptions created since Bitcoin block 779832, which marks the introduction of the BRC-20 standard.
I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?
A lucrative arbitrage opportunity formed the foundation of much of the cryptocurrency industry. When it turned bad, it brought the whole house of cards down with it.
Annotating Sam Bankman-Fried's attempts to explain the FTX collapse.
The trials and tribulations of betting against crypto's biggest stablecoin.
Come, reminisce with me.
Billions in customer funds transferred directly from Binance.US to offshore Binance exchange. Is this just a ploy to trick regulators?
attached is signature proof
And it is critical that we all keep that at the forefronts of our minds.
