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wslh
36,474karma·14,804submissions·March 8, 2009
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Bootstrapped <https://www.coinfabrik.com> in 2014 and https://www.nektra.com in 2003.
- CoinFabrik: Web3, R&D in decentralization, and security audits. Blockchain (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Algorand, etc) and language agnostic (Solidity, Rust, etc)
- Nektra: security, application virtualization, reverse engineering, Windows system internals
- BitVMX <https://bitvmx.org/>: BitVMX framework provides the foundations to run any CPU on Bitcoin, with a focus to run a fully-compliant RISC-V processor programmable using a standard compilation toolchain.
Blogging at https://blog.coinfabrik.com @coinfabrik, https://blog.nektra.com @nektra, and https://blog.databigbang.com @databigbang
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Databases either?
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I think someone or a group really motivated to cause harm will laugh at these rules. Just an anecdote but I was screened several times in the airports (more after 9/11 because of... face) but nev…
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This is not what the article says, so in this context is misleading.
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Is this updated regularly? 404 on GitHub as the other comment. With all due respect it would be great if there is an official HN public dump available (and not requiring stuff such as BigQuery which i…
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https://archive.is/0Ad1w
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100% this. I remember when I took advantage of being online and not really competing in SEO, it was simply a matter of being real. At the time, I didn’t realize it was just arbitrage: I was naturally …
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> I grew up in 3rd world country and if this were to happen, train would literally stop somewhere, anywhere. In many places without rigid rule enforcement, that kind of flexibility can actually fe…
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Sometimes we only need concentration (and free time).
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I don't think it makes any sense except for fun, Bitcoin scripts are pretty limited and there are a lot of previous work [1][2][3][4][5]. [1] https://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript&#x…
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Crypto, as an economic and innovation ecosystem, is largely dead, with the partial exception of stablecoins (which are not inherently “crypto” in the ideological/decentralized sense). The core is…
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They learn really fast. I will not take the past as a prediction of the future.
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Would it be a successful business? That is what matters in the market.
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I see a fallacy in their arguments, even at that level of understanding: you can't be sure you are measuring all the variables when comparing/diffing "both brains". I am not tired …
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But we know that there are few winners and past competitors like eBay faded out. It is more extreme with Microsoft: they have survived more market shifts than anybody else, there is no doubt they have…
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> In my experience, great execution (of mundane things in my case) can lead to others noticing you, which you can then use to create connections. Following the OP's point, nothing beats having…
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This is a two-edged discussion. On one extreme, there’s an interesting Marxist idea that value creation is largely the product of historical and social forces, not just individual effort. However, I d…