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Dankrad Feist
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Dankrad Feist's personal blog at dankradfeist.de covers programming and economics. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dankrad Feist's posts on Ethereum, cryptography and web3. One commenter calls his web3 critique a good breakdown, and others point to his store-of-value and zk-SNARK/KZG writing as reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Cryptography and protocol research — data availability, polynomial commitments, and scaling blockchains without giving up verifiability.
Most-linked posts?
- /ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-commitments.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-14
What Hacker News says?
This is a good breakdown. Too much web3 thinkpiecing (both pro and anti) comes from people who've never looked under the hood. It's refreshing to see someone try actually try crypto as a developer, not just as a user, and go deep enough to figure out how things work in practice. Moxie's critiques are valid. All of these are well known problems to the researchers at the core of web3 and all are the subject of active…
Comment linking /ethereum/2021/02/14/why-stateless.html
on “My First Impressions of Web3”Submitted RAI – one of the coolest experiments in crypto as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Scaling L1 is a tough-to-impossible proposition. There's just no way to store everyone's transactions on everyone's computers. This is the comment that made me sign up for an account: Thanks for doing that, danuker ;) In the most strictest sense: Yes, it is impossible to store all transactional data on just one computer, just like it would inevitably be impossible for one server/database to host an entire company'…
Comment linking /ethereum/2021/06/18/pcs-multiproofs.html
on “Web3: A VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud”Submitted Just because it has a fixed supply doesn't make it a good store of value as a story · 1 points
HN discussionQuite surprised at this comment. The reason I got into blockchain was _because_ of the incredibly difficult technical challenges it poses. Among the few I get to work on: - How to implement robust p2p networking algorithms for sharding in a distributed system such as Ethereum (a very deep rabbit hole), as Ethereum is migrating to a "sharded" architecture - How to solve the "data availability problem" https://github.…
Comment linking /ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-commitments.html
on “Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme”It appears you didn't read the article. Argentinians literally don't care about Bitcoin or Ethereum or any other cryptocurrency of the week. They only care about USD and that means they hold USDT or TRON and they often hold them on Binance. Bitcoin is as much of a danger as gold, in other words not much. Read this article https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2021/09/27/store-of-value-f... Gold is easily outperformed by…
Comment linking /ethereum/2021/09/27/store-of-value-from-limited-supply.html
on “Argentina's currency exchange black markets”(zk-)SNARKs are essentially succinct (sub-linear / O(log)) arguments of knowledge. Essentially the arguments (proofs) boils down to the Schwartz-Zippel Lemma which states that two non-identical polynomials disagree on a random x-value w.h.p. Its a rabbit hole but it is an interesting niche if you like this kind of stuff. To get you started, you can read about the KZG scheme which is even O(1): https://dankradfeist.d…
Comment linking /ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-commitments.html
on “Ask HN: Using Sublinear Time Algorithms?”