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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 488 posts.
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Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto
A compilation of evidence that Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto were different people.
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Liberty Reserve Founder Arrested, Site Shuttered
The founder of Liberty Reserve , a digital currency that has evolved as perhaps the most popular form of payment in the cybercrime underground, was reportedly arrested in Spain this week on suspicion of money laundering. News of the law enforcement action may help explain an ongoing three-day outage at…
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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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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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Zero knowlege proof of compositeness
Testing whether a number is composite as an example of a zero knowledge proof. How ZKPs are used more generally.
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Rewriting my toy blockchain in Rust
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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High Frequency Trading on the Coinbase Exchange
by Andrew Barisser
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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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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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The Private Blockchain Fallacy
In all the blockchain hype, a simple, yet self-refuting idea keeps popping up: a Private Blockchain .
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Bitcoin Mining in Plain English
99Bitcoins is your trusted guide to Bitcoin & crypto, offering easy tutorials, expert insights, and in-depth reviews to help you navigate the crypto world.
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MakerDAO’s “DAI” stablecoin is breaking, as predicted
Background This is a follow-up from an earlier post, “Stablecoins are doomed to fail,” from December 10th. I’ll keep this one short. Long have I been a critic of the “stable…
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Is Craig Wright?
Today there has been an explosion of media interest in the claim by Craig Wright that he is the identity behind the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. However, his blog post is rath…
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Dwolla Begins PayPal-Style Account Suspensions for Bitcoiners
99Bitcoins is your trusted guide to Bitcoin & crypto, offering easy tutorials, expert insights, and in-depth reviews to help you navigate the crypto world.
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Bitcoin Is a Hideous Monstrosity Made Out of Computers and Greed
Before It Devours The World, Part I
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6-8 Weeks Until Bitcoin Debit/Credit Card, says BitInstant
99Bitcoins is your trusted guide to Bitcoin & crypto, offering easy tutorials, expert insights, and in-depth reviews to help you navigate the crypto world.
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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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How Jason Bourne Stores His Bitcoin
If you want to invest in bitcoin for the long-haul, you should address the thorny issue of how best to store them. Since people love stealing bitcoins from others more than just about anything else in this world, all storage systems must first and foremost:
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Maybe we shouldn't skip SHA-3
David Wong writes about cryptography, security, and programming.
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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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Fintech in Chains
"Fintech can come out of the shadows" is the title that Wall Street Journal editors gave to Brian Brooks and Charles Calomiris' oped last week . I have not in a long time seen a title that more utterly contradicts the content of the essay. For what they advocate is exactly the opposite: Fintech in chains, hemmed in by…