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Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy post merge. Ethereum will be completing the transition to Proof-of-Stake in the upcoming months, which...
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The most popular blog posts about crypto & blockchain on Hacker News. 39 posts.
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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Miners have begun to coordinate a 51% attack to stop EIP-1559, and the Ethereum community has responded.
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Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
This Halloween week, GFN Thursday is delivering a fresh batch of gaming treats. Something wicked this blade comes. S-GAME’s Phantom Blade Zero launches on GeForce...
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$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing
NEW YORK, NY — Hindenburg Research, a forensic financial research firm, today announces it is launching the Hindenburg Tether Bounty Program (the “Program”) – a reward of up to $1,000,000 for information leading to previously undisclosed details about cryptocurrency “stablecoin” Tether’s backing.
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Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster
The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States’ roads, highways, and digital infrastructure—contains a poorly crafted provision that could create new surveillance requirements for many within the blockchain ecosystem. This could...
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Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”
Crypto scams were once again the largest form of crypto crime, with over $7.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency taken from victims worldwide.
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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.
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Why Zulip will not get on the blockchain bandwagon
This week, Discord teased plans to integrate a crypto asset wallet. After backlash from their user community, Discord clarified that the feature isn’t ready to ship “for now”. With many popular social and chat apps already on the blockchain bandwagon (including Facebook, Telegram, Signal, Twitter and …
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The Web3 Fraud
By now effectively all ;login:’s readers have heard the term “web3” and “dapps” bandied about as if they are some great revolution. They are not. The technical underpinnings are so terrible that it is clear they exist only to hype the underlying cryptocurrencies. The actual utility of these “decentralized” systems is…
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How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil
The US imposes an almost total economic embargo on Iran, including a ban on all Iranian imports and sanctions on Iranian financial institutions.
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Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned
The most common method for producing crypto-assets requires enormous amounts of electricity and generates large CO2 emissions. Crypto-asset producers are keen to use more renewable energy, and they are increasing their presence in the Nordic region. Sweden needs the renewable energy targeted by crypto-asset producers…
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Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
When my kids were born, I immediately set up gmail accounts for each of them using their nicknames. I’d email observations to their accounts of their first everything, along with photos of moments captured on my mobile. As they grew, I sent audio messages of them reciting poems or silly stories in their raspy, caveman…
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Web3 – A Vision for a Decentralized Web
In this blog we start to explain Web3 in the context of the web's evolution, and how Cloudflare might help to support it.
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Crypto wallet security as seen by security engineers
How to build secure crypto wallets, analysing issues found during crypto wallet security audits.
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Solana Labs completes a $314M private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz
With the new resources, Solana Labs will launch an incubation studio to accelerate the development of decentralized applications and platforms building on…
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Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot activation code
Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 Released With Taproot Activation Code
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What I Think of Bitcoin
These unique insights drive our innovative investment engine, deliver returns for our clients, and inform global economic policy.
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Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets
This article highlights opportunities and potential risks of the DeFi ecosystem.
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Why Did Satoshi Decide to Use Secp256k1 Instead of Secp256r1?
Secp256k1 and secp256r1 are two commonly used curves. Hyperledger / Fabric developed by IBM is using secp256r1 while Bitcoin is using secp256k1. What is the difference between these two and why did Satoshi decide to use secp256k1 which is considered as a surprising choice at the time?
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Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’
Every year, professional and amateur shareholders have the opportunity to partake in Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting where legendary investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger field questions on Berkshire’s business and investment decisions. Typically, the annual event is...
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Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?
Control over important internet services has shifted from open source to proprietary services operated by big tech. As a result, people got access to technology, but that shift also created serious problems.
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Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive
Amidst the speculative boom for NFTs and crypto-currencies, one decentralized technology foundation is taking the long view by investing in deep history and the far future. Today, the Filecoin Foundation announced a 50,000 FIL grant to the Internet Archive - the largest single donation in the digital library’s 25-year…