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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14 posts.
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The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
Two Truths and a Take, Season 1 Episode 29
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Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
Libra is less about an immediate benefit to Facebook, and more about creating a world where companies like Facebook have the best chance to prosper. That is why Facebook gave up so much control.
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Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer
We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer 1 . Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Try...
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Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea
Patients having some sort of “control” over their own medical data is a perennial favourite blockchain pitch. We may have found the source.
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SEC blocks the Telegram ICO – what this means, and what happens now
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
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Open sourcing crypto-arbitrage bot in Python – back to the dawn of crypto hype
TLDR; Crypto-arbitrage bot code is released here - https://github.com/kruglov-dmitry/crypto_crawler. I can’t develop in c++ fast enough, not yet within golang sect, so have to use python. It was painfully educative fun. Chronicles of one crypto-arbitrage bot Some time ago friend of mine, innocent in terms of exposure…
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Blockchain and Trust
In his 2008 white paper that first proposed bitcoin, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto concluded with: “We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust.” He was referring to blockchain, the system behind bitcoin cryptocurrency. The circumvention of trust is a great promise, but it’s just…