Blockchains
- Why Lightning and Raiden Networks Will Not Work
- SO YOU WANT TO SHORT BITCOIN? HERE’S YOUR ROAD MAP.
- Explanation of DAICOs
- Good introduction to strategic mining
- NYT piece on SF cryptobro culture
- How to Crypto: Guide to BitcoinTalk for ICOs
- My Plan for Hyperbitcoinization
- BitMain releases Sia miner, devs, who's competing miner won't be available until June, threaten to softfork, citing bad actor concerns 🤦
- The dangers of complacency in the face of unprecedented opportunity
- +1
- South Korea: Gov’t Officials Accused of Crypto Insider Trading
- Why aren’t distributed systems engineers working on blockchain technology?
- BLOCKCHAINS: HOW TO STEAL MILLIONS IN 2^64 OPERATIONS
- some Lisk vulns
- fluffypony comments on Monero scalability
- A modest primer for Ethereum programming
- Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum
Science & Technology
- cool geoengineering project
- giant underwater walls to slow glacier erosion
InfoSec
- Spectre, Meltdown and the Mill CPU
- Google has some detail on their Spectre/Meltdown mitigation
- allegedly almost no performance impact
- Retpolines
- Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown by cpercival
- Timing Leaks Everything
- Skyfall and Solace
Programming
- EC2 Network Performance Cheat Sheet
- Optimizing Tagless Final
- Ridiculously fast base64 encoding and decoding
- LET'S PROVE RANDOM GAMES ARE WINNABLE (WITH FORMAL METHODS)
- Baby's First x64 ASM Program: Advanced EMT Drug Calculations
- Making a cross-platform mobile game in Reason/OCaml
- State of Rust