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Mathematical Proof That the Lightning Network Cannot Be a Decentralized Bitcoin Scaling Solution
Have you heard of the Bitcoin Lightning Network? It is a proposal that claims that:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 850 posts.
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Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st
Last updated: 2017/07/21 12:00 UTC . This page will be updated when new information becomes available. See the list of updates .
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why Should Anyone Care?
The Crypto market is gaining lots of steam. Gravity-defying price rallies…
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Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second
I've been restoring a Xerox Alto minicomputer from the 1970s and figured it would be interesting to see if it could mine bitcoins. I coded u...
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IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO [audio]
Today's episode is with Dalton Caldwell, who's a partner at YC, and Juan Benet, who's the founder of Protocol Labs, a YC company that's working on IPFS, Filecoin, and CoinList.
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Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL
Cryptocurrencies are fueling a modern day gold rush. Can data help us better understand this evolving market? Read the full article on the Tiger Data blog.
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AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
Numerai just released 1.2 million Numeraire tokens on Ethereum to build a bridge between artificial intelligence and the stock market.
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How I Stole a User's Siacoin
A lesson in Sia wallet seed safety
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The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy
Vili Lehdonvirta is an expert on the politics and economics of digital platforms. His current research focuses on the geopolitics and geoeconomics of digital infrastructures.
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Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin
Update2: Stripe sent an update and it sounds like Coinbase will credit the BTC to my Coinbase account soon:
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A peek under Bitcoin’s hood: Writing a client that can create a transaction
Sam Lewis is a Melbourne based geek who develops cool bits of code. He likes data, embedded stuff and AFL.
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ICOs and VCs
The Brave browser team concluded an ICO for their Basic Attention Token yesterday in about thirty seconds. This led to this tweet: The Basic Attention Token (BAT) ICO just raised 30 million dollars in 24 seconds. VC’s didn’t even have time to put on a sweater vest. — briantobal (@briantobal) May 31, 2017 Of course…
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Maybe we shouldn't skip SHA-3
David Wong writes about cryptography, security, and programming.
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design
It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
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‘Carbon Dating’ the Internet Archive with OpenTimestamps
tl;dr: You can now use our searchable database to download Bitcoin timestamps for items in the Internet Archive.
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Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies
Did you hear the one about the tulip bubble? It’s almost certainly a myth. It is myths, though, that explain why cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
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Coinlist
Some interesting developments that we have been working on came public yesterday. Protocol Labs, a company that builds blockchain-based protocols laid out its ambitious roadmap and finally got around to announcing the seed investment USV and others made in it last year. My partner Brad Burnham wrote a blog post on…
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