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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 850 posts.
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Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
This is the story of BaseFEX - a crypto exchange that unintentionally bankrupted itself through wash trading.
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Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform
A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) and IBM today announced the decision to withdraw the TradeLens offerings and discontinue the platform.
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Stellar Consensus Protocol: Proof and Code
Introducing our first white paper and new open-source codebase for a decentralized worldwide payment protocol.
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The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme
With over $20b in assets under management Celsius Network is the biggest centralised lending platform in the crypto space.
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The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator
I won’t discuss anything in this post. I’m tired of discussing technical things with people with skewed opinions and monetary interest. I’ve talked enough in the Bitcointalk forum…
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Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
On March 13, the Dencun hard fork activated, enabling one of the long-awaited features of Ethereum: proto-danksharding (aka EIP-4844 , aka blobs). Initially, the fork reduced the transaction fees of rollups by a factor of over 100, as blobs were nearly free. In the last day, we finally saw blobs spike up in volume and…
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Is Web3 anything?
The term “web3” seems pretty fluid and is being used as a label for a bunch of disparate ideas. Given that it’s a decentralized group describing a decentralized movement, that lack of focus isn’t exactly surprising. Almost by definition it’s going to end up being different things to different people.
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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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Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
Bluenoroff or APT38, more commonly referred to as Lazarus Group is a threat group which has been tied to the North Korean government since as early as 2009 primarily being financially motivated utilizing malware custom built for each target.
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Attacking an Ethereum L2 with Unbridled Optimism
On 2/2/2022, I reported a critical security issue to Optimism—an "L2 scaling solution" for Ethereum—that would allow an attacker to replicate money on any chain using their "OVM 2.0" fork of go-ethereum (which they call l2geth).
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What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee and about 70 other members of the bitcoin community.
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In defense of cryptocurrency
Last week a group of technologists, including Bruce Schneier, sent a letter to Congress outlining their concerns around cryptocurrency and urging Congress to regulate the space. Now let me be the f…
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Urbit OS 1
OS 1 is somewhere between ‘productivity software’ and a ‘social network’. We think it’s the beginning of an altogether new breed of social computing.
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Algorithmic stablecoins are provably impossible without continuous funding
Financial theory demonstrates that the concept is fundamentally flawed
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IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency
In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies.
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Shorting Bitcoin
I just bought put options on MicroStrategy ($MSTR) , Coinbase ($COIN) , and Purpose Bitcoin ETF ($BTCC-B.TO) , all at a strike price not far off the current (late June) price, expiring around Christmas. Here’s the thinking.
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Keybase chooses Zcash
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The Tether Ponzi Scheme
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The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened?
Shorter title: SBF, FTX, WTF?
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Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
You have just made a Bitcoin transaction and you are eager to see if it appears in the next block. You know that the expected time between Bitcoin blocks is 10 minutes. You check the log of your Bitcoin node. It has been 7 minutes since the previous block. You recall that blocks occurrences in Bitcoin are a Poisson…
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U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor
Did you know that Alt-right groups got $500k in bitcoins a month before the capitol riot? Read the entire report here and find out who the secret donor is.