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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 59 posts.
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1Password and the Crypto Wars
A series of debates, civil disobedience, and cryptographic developments have come to be known as “The Crypto Wars”. Learn how 1Password can help you protect your data.
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Bitcoin is Worse is Better
2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex design with few attractive theoretical properties compared to purer competitors nevertheless successfully takes over a niche, survives, and becomes gradually refined.
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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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How the Internet Archive is having a great time with Bitcoin
The Internet Archive jumped into bitcoin in 2011 after many people asked to donate bitcoins-- a non-techy set up our wallet (good sign), and we got about $2,000 worth of donations that first year. In 2012 we got about $6,000 worth-- interesting. I think of it as the local currency of the Internet. I figured
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The Big Book of Bitcoin - An introduction
An introduction to Bitcoin without the jargon: Bookkeepers, Ledgers and Anonymity.
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Time-lock encryption
How do you encrypt a file such that it can be decrypted after a date, but not before? Use serial computations for proof-of-work using successive squaring, chained hashes, or witness encryption on blockchains.
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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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Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon
We are pleased to announce that btcd , our full-node bitcoind alternative written in Go, is finally ready for public testing!
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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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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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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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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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BitCon: Don't
<p>Ok, I've been asked enough times, here it is -- my view and analysis of "Bitcoin", which I have taken to calling "Bitcon." &nbsp;That probably deserves an explanation....</p><p>Let's first define what an
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EFF now accepting Bitcoin again
Today, we’re happy to announce that we will be accepting Bitcoin donations through our website. You can use them to make one-time donations, set up monthly donations or get an EFF membership (which includes awesome membership swag like EFF hats and digital freedom t-shirts).While we are accepting...
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