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cryptonomics
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cryptonomics is a personal blog at cryptonomics.org about economics and business. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover cryptocontracts, which would express contract law such as babysitting or lawnmower borrowing as programs, and Goldman Sachs' efforts to recast its reputation to recruit tech talent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
the economics of crypto-markets
What Hacker News says?
> How would you even express babysitting or lawnmower-borrowing as a program? What if all you needed to do was sent x btc to 13cyfKGfbyyuyiJVLj8S1QZ34x281X1neh which would trigger a lawnmower algorithm [1] to scan all available wifi connected lawnmowers, and send an idle one to mow your lawn - while compensating the anonymous owner for 'lending' you his machine. The implications of distributed blockchains are so hug…
Comment linking /2014/02/01/ethereum-turing-complete-programmable-money/
on “Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language”Submitted Some Crypto Quibbles with Threadneedle Street as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA little background from reading "Flash Boys": Goldman uses open source code but then strips off the open source license and replaces it with their own - thus changing open source code into "proprietary" Goldman Sacks code. Sergey was not allowed to submit his open source code fixes back to the o.s. repositories because once G.S. violates the O.S. copy write, it is now magically "proprietary". In order to keep his f…
Comment linking /2013/09/08/goldman-sachs-v-russian-programmer/
on “Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent”Submitted Why I’m bullish on AppCoins as a story · 1 points
HN discussion