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Do Kwon in more trouble
He Sent $80 Million a Month to Secret Wallets Before Terra Luna Crashed
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The most popular blog posts about crypto & blockchain on Hacker News. 850 posts.
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Bitcoin Core switching from hard-coded to flexible fees in next major release
Latest crypto news, Bitcoin analysis, and clear insights into cryptocurrency. Independent coverage from BitcoinFoundation.
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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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Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released the findings of their initial technological research into a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. The published research describes a theoretical high-performance and resilient…
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Stonks Are What You Can Get Away With: NFTs and Financial Nihilism
Eric Jang, "Ten Apes", Jun 19 2021. NFT "drop" coming soon. Andy Warhol once said, “Art is what you can get away with.” I interpret the qu...
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Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon
WIRED's Andy Greenberg discusses a revelation that turned his decades-long reporting on its head: Bitcoin became a criminal's worst nightmare.
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The programming error that cost Mt. Gox 2609 Bitcoins
In October 2011, Mt Gox lost over 2609 bitcoins by accidentally creating transactions that can never be redeemed. (At the time, 2609 bitcoin...
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Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means
A huge Rube Goldberg machine slapstick custard pie clown car, where each custard pie triggers three more custard pies.
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Web 3 is Flawed
My opinions on Web3 and why it is flawed
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Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a planned hard fork at <strong>block number 4.37mil (4,370,000)</strong>, which will likely occur between 12:00 UTC and...
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IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO [audio]
Today's episode is with Dalton Caldwell, who's a partner at YC, and Juan Benet, who's the founder of Protocol Labs, a YC company that's working on IPFS, Filecoin, and CoinList.
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Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Terrible things I'd do with your money
In some of Daniel Kahnemann's books and any other business advice-type articles, you always seem to read the same argument: The thing important people all over the world would like to see is incr
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Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1
Social recovery wallets introduces new ways to authenticated with our own owned identities.
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Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big
Large-scale quantum computers are capable of breaking all of the common forms of asymmetric cryptography used on the Internet today. Luckily, they don’t exist yet. The Internet-wide transition to post-quantum cryptography began in 2022 when NIST announced their final candidates for key exchange and signatures in the…
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Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are
If you go out seeking to learn why blockchains and the systems built atop them are apparently the future of our web, you’ll begin to see some common themes. These fall apart under further scrutiny.
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Bitcoin as a law enforcement/natsec honeypot: what is the evidence?
Paranoia appears to be the order of the day, given what we know about the NSA and GCHQ thanks to Edward Snowden. Absent from the stories so...
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The Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoins
The official blog of WizSec, a group of bitcoin security specialists, and their investigation into MtGox.
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The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants
On December 14, 2017 a post was made on Reddit that would forever change the landscape of charitable giving with cryptocurrency.