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What Is a Bitcoin, Really?
When I first started learning about Bitcoin, I found plenty of information, but nothing that directly answered the most burning question: When you buy bitcoins… what is it …
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 850 posts.
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Bitcoin Core switching from hard-coded to flexible fees in next major release
Latest crypto news, Bitcoin analysis, and clear insights into cryptocurrency. Independent coverage from BitcoinFoundation.
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How you will not uncover Satoshi
Computer forensics is the science of finding evidence in computers and digital documents, and when a hacker perform forensics, better be prepared for the unknown. Satoshi did many things in order t…
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On Mining
<i><em>Decentralization, n.</em> The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not, have not yet...
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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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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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Bitcoin Price Pressure
The price of bitcoin keeps trending down. [1] This causes a lot of people to declare the end of bitcoin. It’s important to understand that the default price pressure of the bitcoin ecosystem is...
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Square Market Accepts Bitcoin
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Strangecoin: a proposal for a nonlinear currency
In this post I sketch a proposal for a digital currency that works unlike other *coins that have recently become available. I'm calling it ...
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Tarsnap now accepts Bitcoin
There is a significant commonality between Tarsnap and Bitcoin — both rely crucially on strong cryptography, and anecdotally it seems that many Bitcoin users rely on Tarsnap to back up their "wallets" (I have no concrete data since I can't tell what data people are backing up ) — so it's not surprising that many…
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How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak passphrases
Every Bitcoin address is based on a secret key, from which the public key (associated to a Bitcoin address) is calculated. Once you have the private key for an address, you have the control of that address and can use it to transfer funds.
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The programming error that cost Mt. Gox 2609 Bitcoins
In October 2011, Mt Gox lost over 2609 bitcoins by accidentally creating transactions that can never be redeemed. (At the time, 2609 bitcoin...
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Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat
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Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post with 10 things that amazed me about bitcoin (here). I just can’t stop thinking about the idea that I brought up in the final point of that post, specific…
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Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes
This article explains Bitcoin mining in details, right down to the hex data and network traffic. If you've ever wondered what really happe...
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