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Escape Velocity

Personal blog · chrispacia.wordpress.comeconomicspolitics

Escape Velocity is a personal blog at chrispacia.wordpress.com about economics and politics. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “How to build an antigravity device”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
10HN people?
2014–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on Bitcoin, including a theory about the missing Mt. Gox coins and an analysis of Lightning Network transaction costs and how payment hubs might form.

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.

Visions Of A Freer Future

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to build an antigravity device
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-21
  2. This is what most likely happened to Mt. Gox
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-02
  3. Lightning Network Skepticism
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. gumballhead · 2014-03-21
    That lends some more plausibility to this theory: http://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/this-is-what-most...

    Comment linking /2014/02/28/this-is-what-most-likely-happened-to-mtgox/

    on “Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins”
  2. maxwell · 2019-11-25

    Submitted NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin (2013) as a story · 95 points

    HN discussion
  3. cloakandswagger · 2017-02-12
    How do you counter the description of the network in this article? It seems like de-facto hubs will form out of necessity to avoid creating a channel on the fly, which requires getting a transaction committed to the blockchain. https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/lightning-networ...

    Comment linking /2015/12/23/lightning-network-skepticism/

    on “The True Cost of Bitcoin Transactions”
  4. kushti · 2015-12-24

    Submitted Lightning Network Skepticism as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  5. prot · 2014-03-13

    Submitted Medical Anarchy as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  6. kordless · 2014-03-02

    Submitted This is what most likely happened to Mt. Gox as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  7. wunderg · 2018-02-21

    Submitted How to build an antigravity device as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  8. wslh · 2014-09-20

    Submitted Bitcoin Mining Explained Like You’re Five as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. thecoffman · 2014-02-28

    Submitted This is What Most Likely Happened to Mt. Gox as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. bryanrasmussen · 2019-02-04

    Submitted How to Build an Anti-Gravity Device (2013) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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