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A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex
"Hello, to get your data back you have to pay for the decryption tool, the price is $1,200,000... You have to make the payment in Bitcoin...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 488 posts.
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Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions
HN Discussion
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Filecoin, StorJ and the problem with decentralized storage (2019)
Blockchains for everything Decentralized storage services such as Filecoin and StorJ seek to disrupt the data-storage industry, using blockchain tokens to create a competitive marketplace that can …
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The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin
Discover the hidden story of the first genesis block of Bitcoin
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Cypherpunk Desert Bus: My Role in the 2016 Zcash Trusted Setup Ceremony
Update: taking this down for now until some questions about the deterministicbuilds are answered; currently I do not believe the Zcash trusted setup shouldbe...
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Is Web3 Bullshit? (Transcript)
'Is web3 bullshit?'. A talk by Molly White on the Crypto stage at Web Summit in Lisbon on November 4, 2022.
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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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Hacker News is more interested in Bitcoin when there's a bubble forming
You might have got the impression that there are a lot of Bitcoin-related posts on Hacker News lately. With SegWit set to activate in the next few weeks, and Bitcoin Cash likely to fork off on the 1st of August, I took a look at Hacker News' relationship with Bitcoin over the past years.
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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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Anatomy of a cryptocurrency scam
You receive a message. Now either you will be victim or not. Your knowledge, attention and moral compass will decide where you will end up.
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IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t
IOTA is a cryptocurrency targeting the internet of things. It purports to be scalable, decentralized, and feeless. Unfortunately it is none of those things.
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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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Cryptographic Right Answers
Encrypting data: Use AES in CTR (Counter) mode, and append an HMAC . AES is about as standard as you can get, and has done a good job of resisting cryptologic attacks over the past decade. Using CTR mode avoids the weakness of ECB mode, the complex (and bug-prone) process of padding and unpadding of partial blocks (or…
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