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b10c's blog
Personal blog · b10c.me/blog · on HN as b10csecurityprogramming
b10c's blog is a personal blog at b10c.me about security and programming. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links b10c's blog for its node observation write-ups, such as a linked case study of a node operator. One commenter cites it as a parallel to Chainalysis tracing in Monero wallets.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
blog of b10c, a Bitcoin developer.
Most-linked posts?
- LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-30
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this case: https://b10c.me/observations/06-linkinglion/ Btw, I wish Satoshi thought more of the concept of nodes' reputation so you can somewhat know how efficient and legitimate the node is.
Comment linking /observations/06-linkinglion/
on “How Chainalysis made their way into popular Monero wallets”Submitted On anyone-can-spend Pay-to-Taproot outputs before activation as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mining Pool Game Theory During Forks as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wallet fingerprinting nearly a third of all Bitcoin transactions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Matching Hashes: Reproducing the Guix-Built Bitcoin Core Release Binary with Nix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disclosure: Wasting ViaBTC's 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a P2P message as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extracting the Private Key from Schnorr Signatures That Reuse a Nonce as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The stair-pattern in time-locked Bitcoin transactions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin Mining Centralization in 2025 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring Taproot Activation (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Userspace, Statically Defined Tracing Support for Bitcoin Core as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolution of the Signature Size in Bitcoin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The daily BitMEX broadcast at 13:08 UTC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Incomplete History of Bitcoin Development as a story · 1 points
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