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This is just me saving some links here; not intended for public consumption. https://soatok.blog/2022/05/19/guidance-for-choosing-an-elliptic-curve-signature-algorithm-in-2022/ https://www.getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html https://cr.yp.to/hecdh.html https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/113116/how-is-the-generator-point-g-chosen-in-the-secp256k1-curve-used-in-bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/satoshis-genius-unexpected-ways-in-which-bitcoin-dodged-some-cryptographic-bullet-1382996984 Lolk! So yeah, where is my Lamport Signature coin already? I guess by now it would be built with: https://sphincs.cr.yp.to/ Why does the EC music always sound the same around here? Same DJ, B. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01993-z How did...

A little more than nine years ago, we published here a list of the top five errors made about bitcoin. That post received some attention and so we tried again later. You might ask, what are the most common errors we make in our discussions of fiat currency? Thanks for asking! Without further ado: 1......

The following is a somewhat complete list of old blog posts in this channel :

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Johnny was about seven years old the first time he handled a transaction entirely on his own. Money wasn't entirely new to him of course. He had a wallet, knew about things having costs at shops, and he even knew some history. He'd heard something about the age of repurposing, even something about the great...

So the backstory here is that I received a handwritten letter from a "James", delivered with the US post office, who advised me to vote. The author didn't tell me who or what to vote for, just that they felt strongly that I should try to make my voice heard by voting. Maybe we should...

At this point, the story is ancient history. The August 2017 fork creating BCH and the following market action were basically the conclusion of what some people called "a debate in the community" as to how big bitcoin blocks should be. In the earliest days it was thought that the 1MB block limit was just...

Yeah sure, apart from the obvious fact that bitcoin doesn't contain animal protein, the statement doesn't immediately make a lot of sense. The V word is an adjective which describes food, bitcoin isn't food, therefore we have a non-starter. But wait. People sometimes use "Vegan" to describe other people, even when those other people aren't...

Suppose you have an average 1200 watt toaster. Using this for 10 minutes will use 0.2 kWh of energy, costing you around 2 USD cents or about 100 satoshi (assuming here an average electrical energy cost of 10 USD cents per kWh). Keep in mind however that you aren't alone. Lets say for the sake...

What good is a blog other than to expose the ignorance of its author? Precious little perhaps. So today we are going to look back at a piece which appeared here naively predicting that artists and musicians would start publishing an address so people could send them money. What have we learned in the last...