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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 126 posts.
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Bitcoin is Eating Itself
Fees keep going up. And every time they go up, more of the money stored on the blockchain becomes worthless.
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Red Lang goes blockchain
Here we are, ready to leap into the future. This is a new page opening in the Red history book. It is a great day for us to finally be able ...
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Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
(Sequel here: Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future.)
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Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin
The reason that delusions are so hard to fight with logic is that delusions themselves are established through the exercise of logic. Responsibility for delusions is more likely to be found in distorted perception or inadequate information.
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MIT Media Lab's concerns about the cryptocurrency IOTA
On Friday, MIT Technology Review published an article on the cryptocurrency IOTA. However, we at the Media Lab have issues with the story
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Selling Bitcoins in Canada
In 2013, I bought a few Bitcoins from a dude in a coffee shop, paying with hundred-dollar bills. Later that year I sold enough to get my money back . Then I forgot about them, Bitcoin’s price gyrations occasionally registering in a corner of my mind. But earlier this month I decided to find out if the remainder could…
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Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional
Public discussion and media coverage of Bitcoin assumes certain things about Bitcoin: • Bitcoin has a price, that you could expect to buy or sell it around. • Bitcoin is like buying a share in a co…
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The Ethereum-blockchain size will not exceed 1TB anytime soon
Once a month users post a chart on `r/ethereum` predicting the blockchain size of Ethereum will soon exceed 1 TB. I want to clean up with some stories around the Ethereum-blockchain size in this article and try to explain why this chart is technically correct, but not the full picture...
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Don't get caught up in blockchain hype
Internet Hall of Famer says it pays to consider non-blockchain solutions.
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Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts
You might have heard the term “smart contract,” and you might even know that they are “code” you can run on a blockchain.But how can you run code on a blockc...
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Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
With today's release of Brave browser 0.19.95 for the desktop, audiences can use the Brave Payments system to reward their favorite YouTube creators with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT).
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Parity Wallet security alert
We tell the story of Parity's technical roadmap with regular blogs. Read on to find out the latest on major upgrades that are delivering scalability for the Polkadot ecosystem.
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How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
Jack Schultz's blog.