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How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video]
The thought “I know PHP! How hard could running an exchange be?” never goes anywhere good.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 66 posts.
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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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Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you
[Note: I neither own nor have any trading position on any cryptocurrency. I was not compensated by any party to write this. The views expressed below are solely my own and do not necessarily repr…
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Equihax
Trawling the darknet as one does, I came across this little simple page this morning. It claims to be the real EQUIFAX hackers, unlike the last darknet site that was soon taken down by morons. I ha…
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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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Analyzing Cryptocurrency Markets Using Python
A data-driven approach to cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple etc.) market analysis and visualization using Python.
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How I Stole a User's Siacoin
A lesson in Sia wallet seed safety
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How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
Jack Schultz's blog.
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No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month
To solve Bitcoin’s scalability challenge, many so-called layer 2 protocols have been proposed. All of these protocols operate on the same, relatively simple, principle:
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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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Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second
I've been restoring a Xerox Alto minicomputer from the 1970s and figured it would be interesting to see if it could mine bitcoins. I coded u...
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A peek under Bitcoin’s hood: Writing a client that can create a transaction
Sam Lewis is a Melbourne based geek who develops cool bits of code. He likes data, embedded stuff and AFL.
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Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies
Did you hear the one about the tulip bubble? It’s almost certainly a myth. It is myths, though, that explain why cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
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Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research
Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research Oliver 2017
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The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November
[UPDATE: This post was originally said that the SegWit2X fork will happen on November 1. In fact it is scheduled to occur on block 494,764 ...
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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…