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Helium
A major reason that cryptocurrencies have become such a problem is that mainstream journalists normally just regurgitate the hype they are f...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 127 posts.
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The user experience problems of quadratic voting
In their seminal book, "Radical Markets," Eric Posner and Glen Weyl introduce quadratic voting to improve (or radicalize) democratic preference voting. They argue that by allowing voters to
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But, aren't you folks web2?
And if you are, then why don't you convert to web3?
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There aren't that many uses for blockchains
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
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On Web3 Infrastructure
In recent months, there has been a resurgence in the usage of the term “web3”: a nebulous term that (like it or hate it) has suddenly become a banner for much of the innovation happening in the space of blockchain and distributed ledger technology. The term has been around for a while (since 2014 when Gavin Wood…
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IPFS Backed by Decentralized Storage
Filebase now supports IPFS! Learn more about our latest network integration and how you can pin data onto IPFS in seconds, at a fraction of the cost of existing services.
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Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions
HN Discussion
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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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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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Attackers exploit flaw in web’s security to steal $2M in cryptocurrency
By Henry Birge-Lee, Liang Wang, Grace Cimaszewski, Jennifer Rexford and Prateek Mittal On Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, attackers stole approximately $2 million worth of cryptocurrency from users of the Korean crypto exchange KLAYswap. This theft, which was detailed in a Korean-language blog post by the security firm S2W…
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Crypto, the left, and techno-feudalism
The Crypto Syllabus
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Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?
attached is signature proof
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The Bitcoin Investment Thesis Is Broken
Informed Tip of the Week: Take a look at our recent series of posts covering Informed’s premise and our business model. We will be adding additional content over the next few weeks. At the beginning of the year, I wrote about most of the obvious bubbles out there and how Continue Reading
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Web 3 Doesn't Exist
Web3 has been a very fashionable term this year, mostly for the alt-finance cartoon characters and tech world’s ultrasophisticated twitter-thread authors.
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A not so gentle intro to web3
Pyramid schemes, scientology and Tamagotchi
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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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Bitcoin Is a Hideous Monstrosity Made Out of Computers and Greed
Before It Devours The World, Part I
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Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (2014)
Every Bitcoin transaction is stored in the distributed database known as the Bitcoin blockchain. However, people have found ways to hack ...
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Explanation of Bitcoin’s Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has grown to be very popular in public-key cryptographic systems, most popularly used in Bitcoin. ECC is…
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Expanding access to the future of work with crypto payouts
Stripe now reaches a majority of the globe: 4.4 billion people in more than 110 countries can receive funds in local currencies or crypto.