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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 59 posts.
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Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics
There’s an agenda there, and it’s a bad one.
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Bit gold (2005)
A long time ago I hit upon the idea of bit gold. The problem, in a nutshell, is that our money currently depends on trust in a third party ...
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Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency
So it’s a scam, and you’ll lose all your money, but on the plus side, you’ll have helped make the only habitable planet we have uninhabitable.
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Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
Back to: Trust Me (I'm a kettle) | Forward to: Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
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Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy
tl;dr: https://github.com/pierce403/keyhunter ~ The Longer Version ~ A few weeks ago, a friend came to me with a problem. Way back...
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Stop Saying Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t Reversible
One of the criticisms leveled at Bitcoin by those people determined to hate it is that Bitcoin transactions are irreversible.
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Thoughts on Bitcoin
Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity. I don’t know how to weight the probabilities (although I think in the...
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Satoshi Nakamoto is probably Nick Szabo?
I recently became interested in identifying the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. I started from the Bitcoin whitepaper [0] published in late 2008, and proceeded to run reverse tex…
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How to Buy Bitcoin
As someone who recently purchased Bitcoin and two other crypto currencies using three different methods, I thought I’d share how to buy Bitcoin because I know there’s precious little information out there:
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It's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
We’re in the middle of a huge Bitcoin bubble resembling Tulip mania. There’s now huge demand in the mainstream to buy bitcoin for speculation mainly due to med…
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