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Gavin Andresen
Personal blog · gavinandresen.ninjaeconomicsprogramming
Gavin Andresen's personal blog at gavinandresen.ninja covers economics and programming. Since 2015, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Satoshi”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gavin Andresen's blog, where he writes on Bitcoin development, block size limits, and his verification of Craig Wright's claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Satoshi8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-05-02
- Segregated Witness is cool2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-10
- A Possible BTC Future2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-29
- /does-more-transactions-necessarily-mean-more-centralized2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-16
- One-dollar lulz2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-04
- Satoshi Roundtable Thoughts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-06
- A definition of “Bitcoin”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-08
- Time to roll out bigger bitcoin blocks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-04
What Hacker News says?
> It is not yet a problem. That's a controversial premise that the article repeatedly addresses. You may not be convinced, but there is a lot of stuff cited in there on that exact point.[1] Those links lead to other resources fleshing this out pretty quickly.[2, 3] I found this bit persuasive: > "Some customers contacted Chris earlier today asking why our bitcoin payouts didn’t execute ... The issue is that it’s now…
Comment linking /the-myth-of-not-full-blocks
on “The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment”Submitted Satoshi as a story · 157 points
HN discussionCross post from the NYT article comment: In open source communities, impactful contributions yield influence. Here are the top 100 bitcoin contributors: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors Guys like Wladimir, Pieter, Gavin, Cory Fields, Gregory Maxwell and Luke Jr have a voice because they’ve contributed many thousands of lines of code. (Lines of code are only a proxy for impact). You may have not…
Comment linking /segregated-witness-is-cool
on “The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment”Submitted Satoshi Roundtable Thoughts as a story · 115 points
HN discussionIn open source communities, impactful contributions yield influence. Here are the top 100 bitcoin contributors: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors Guys like Wladimir, Pieter, Gavin, Cory Fields, Gregory Maxwell and Luke Jr have a voice because they’ve contributed many thousands of lines of code. (Lines of code are only a proxy for impact). You may have noticed Mike Hearn isn’t in the top 100 cont…
Comment linking /segregated-witness-is-cool
on “The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment”Submitted Two identical price charts, but one of these cryptocurrencies stopped working as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAgain? This was debunked months ago when he first tried to pull of this stunt. Remember, it's easy to prove you're Satoshi by either * Signing a message with his PGP key http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/satoshinakamoto.asc * Signing a message with one of his early Bitcoin address keys Edit: apparently he did the latter, quote article > Mr Wright said he planned to release information that would allow others to cr…
Comment linking /satoshi
on “Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto”Submitted Not as rich as you think… as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGavin Andresen says he's verified that Wright is Satoshi. If this is a hoax, a lot of people are going to wind up with a lot of egg on their faces. :) http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi
Comment linking /satoshi
on “Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto”Submitted A Possible BTC Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFYI, Electrum has stated that there was no download of a signature file of Electrum from a UK IP address on April 7 [1]. This in itself does not prove that there was no download of an Electrum signature file to the laptop that Gavin was given. He could have connected using Tor or other services through which the real IP address is hidden, but this could be another reason to suspect there was some kind of MITM hack t…
Comment linking /satoshi
on “Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto”Submitted Gavin Andresen on Craig Wright as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not sure if you've spoken to any Bitcoin developers recently, but they'll tell you you're wrong and that it is the valid chain with the most work, not the chain with the most work. They'll then tell you what valid means. Some developers would agree with you though, like Gavin Andresen [0]. Either way, you end up with either centralized miners deciding the fate of the chain, or centralized developers deciding the…
Comment linking /a-definition-of-bitcoin
on “Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality”Submitted Segregated Witness is cool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt seems to me it is. From Gavin Andresen, one of the original developers: http://gavinandresen.ninja/does-more-transactions-necessaril... "So it looks to me like the actual out-of-pocket cost of running a full node in a datacenter won’t change with a 20 megabyte maximum block size; it will be on the order of $5 or $10 per month."
Comment linking /does-more-transactions-necessarily-mean-more-centralized
on “Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month”Submitted When the block reward goes away as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAustralian dude publishes fake proof he's the famous inventor of bitcoin: * http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... * https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hflr3/craig_wrigh... High-profile Bitcoin dev Gavin Andresen inexplicably supports the fraudster: http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi
Comment linking /satoshi
on “Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked, hacking suspected”Submitted Gavin Andresen: A Possible BTC Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI agree that it is unlikely he was hacked due to the reasons you provided (i.e. no play), but I have a theory that he is the real deal and created a 'phony' proof so that he could wait to sense what the media backlash was (positive or negative) before deciding whether or not to go ahead and provide a 'real' proof or simply just make it look like he is lying. The proof is complex enough for only the technical communi…
Comment linking /satoshi
on “Craig Wright's signature is worthless”Submitted A definition of “Bitcoin” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPeter Todd said it was because he thought he was hacked [1]. Then two days later he posts a blog about wanting to submit a pull request for bigger blocks[2]. Interesting timing. [1] https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/727078284345917441 [2] http://gavinandresen.ninja/time-to-roll-out-bigger-blocks
Comment linking /time-to-roll-out-bigger-blocks
on “Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW”Submitted One-dollar lulz as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Source? I was making an inference but one it seems Gavin Andresen agrees with: "Over the last year of trying, and failing, to reach a reasonable compromise, it has become clear to me that some developers don’t want any on-chain scaling solution any time soon. [goes on to reference Lightning]" http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi-roundtable-thoughts
Comment linking /satoshi-roundtable-thoughts
on “Bitcoin transaction processing takes up to 10 hours”Submitted Designing for success as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOn a positive note sharding technology does have great promise because of the problems that it can potentially solve. With Bitcoin you can only validate a transaction by having all of the unspent transactions in memory [1]. With a sharded system you only need to have a subset of those transactions in memory. At a fundamental technological level you are increasing the size of available memory by using the memory of o…
Comment linking /utxo-uhoh
on “Ethereum Sharding FAQ”Submitted Time to roll out bigger bitcoin blocks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFirst, it would behoove you to run a full node on your desktop PC. What you will surely find is that maxing out your CPU at 100% for hours on end isn't very fun and isn't necessarily conducive to getting other work done at the same time. This is again to say nothing of the bandwidth requirements, streaming videos or playing games for example may become out of the question depending on the quality of your network con…
Comment linking /does-more-transactions-necessarily-mean-more-centralized
on “Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin”> zkSNARKs are not only meant and used for cryptocurrencies. They are decades old technology but ofc they can be used for all sorts of solutions including cryptocurrencies. Yes, but their current popularity (and the reason why so much effort is put into this subfield of cryptological research these days) is most likely due to their use in the context of cryptocurrencies, as far as I can tell. If I'm wrong, please le…
Comment linking /
on “Fake Tesla, Apple stocks have started trading on blockchains”Does it? This graph looks sub-linear to me https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ There's also bandwidth and CPU costs. If any of those don't keep pace with transaction growth that's a centralizing force. Gavin Andresen actually has a decent summary of some of different "O(n^2)" arguments on his blog http://gavinandresen.ninja/are-bigger-blocks-dangerous though I disagree with most of his concl…
Comment linking /are-bigger-blocks-dangerous
on “First Lightning mainnet release”Let's balance the discussion out a bit: Greg Maxwell's thoughts (small blocks): http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/34090559/ About internet bandwidth growth (~neutral): http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=493 An attempt at a well-rounded overview (~neutral): http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=535 some thoughts by bittorrent creator Bram Cohen (small blocks): https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a.…
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on “Why is Bitcoin forking?”
