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A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
Build a censorship-resistant inflation dashboard. If we pick your project, we'll fund it with $100k.
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Crypto & Blockchain
The most popular blog posts about crypto & blockchain on Hacker News. 850 posts.
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Abuse and Harassment on the Blockchain
In the frenzy to attract venture capital funding and draw new users and investors into blockchain technologies, 'how will this technology be used to harass and abuse people?' is going unasked. While blockchain proponents speak about a 'future of the web' based around public ledgers, anonymity, and immutability, those…
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Phishing Darknet Users for Bitcoins
Writeup of a tool for creating bitcoin stealing phishing clones of onion services on large scale
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Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers
Two recently-hyped developments in AI engineering have been Geoff Huntley’s “Ralph Wiggum loop” and Steve Yegge’s “Gas Town”. Huntley and Yegge are both…
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Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
Blockchain technology is ultimately a dual-edge technology that can be used to either support or supplant the law. This talk looks at the impact of blockchain technology of a variety of fields (finance, contracts, organizations, etc.), and the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain-based systems.
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NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain
Today’s biggest misconception about NFTs is that they’re “jpeg” images stored on the Ethereum blockchain, it’s not. Probably because that digital art can be easy to visualize, and famous artists attempt today to sell their digital art as an NFT on a platform such as Opensea, it has gained lot of attention these past…
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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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How to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node
Accepting Bitcoin payments for an online service can be daunting at first (I worked out how to do it, for SMS Privacy , a couple of months ago). What I describe is not the only way to accept Bitcoin payments - it's not even the best way to accept Bitcoin payments - but it works for me. And it might work for you, too.
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The free money machine that went into reverse: Grayscale Bitcoin Trust
A lucrative arbitrage opportunity formed the foundation of much of the cryptocurrency industry. When it turned bad, it brought the whole house of cards down with it.
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DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
Decentraland joins the Blender Development Fund for a period of two years, as Patron Member.
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Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Introducing Stellar: a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money
Stellar is a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies. This means users can, for ...
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Spiral’s Homomorphic Encryption – Is This the Future of Privacy?
Find out how homomorphic encryption works and why it could be the future of (crypto) data privacy
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Understanding ECDSA
Exploring blockchain, math, and smart contracts through a security lens.
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Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)
By Nick Szabo, 2002
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Ethereum Energy Consumption
The basic information you need to understand Ethereum's energy consumption.
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Bcrypt is now obsolete
I am speaking today at BSDCan'09 about my work on the scrypt key derivation function. In the context of hardware brute-force attacks, scrypt is thousands of times more secure than existing "best practice" solutions such as bcrypt and PBKDF2; in fact, under reasonable assumptions it is provably as strong as possible…
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Encrypt-then-MAC
First things first: Why use a composition of encryption and MAC instead of a single primitive which achieves both? Because people are very good at writing bad code. In my experience on the FreeBSD security team, writing dozens of security advisories, there are three types of code which are especially prone to have…