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Hedera
Company blog · hedera.com/blogbusinesssystems
Hedera is the company blog at hedera.com, writing about business and systems. Since 2019, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Hedera”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked to promote Hedera Hashgraph as an energy-efficient distributed ledger alternative to Bitcoin. Its learning pages, blog and network docs are cited as sources, with no commenter judging the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hedera is the trusted platform for building fast, secure, and compliant decentralized applications.
Most-linked posts?
- Hedera4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-10
What Hacker News says?
Proof-of-stake distributed ledger technology is extremely efficient. Hedera Hashgraph uses a gossip protocol and has extremely high transaction-per-second support with finality. Already being used by major corporations. https://hedera.com/
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on “Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index”Submitted Tata Communications owns and operates a public blockchain node as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYour gossip protocol isn't the gossip protocol of Hashgraph/Hedera https://hedera.com/learning/hedera-hashgraph/what-is-gossip-... , is it?
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on “Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative”Submitted Dogfooding at Hedera: Verifiable Object Storage Using S3 and Hedera Consensus as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGreat point, I wasn't being precise. My point stands, however! I must also correct your understanding re: "private company." The DLT in question - Hedera - is built on the unique consensus algorithm, the "hashgraph". The hashgraph algorithm combines a gossip-about-gossip protocol with virtual voting. In fact, services development is now in the hands of the largest open source foundation in the world. These implement…
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on “Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)”Submitted AdsDax built a decentralized message queue with Beanstalkd and Hedera as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt would be supremely excellent if these companies embraced the Hedera Hashgraph as a truly sustainable, net-zero (or net-negative) approach to their carbon capture tokenization efforts: https://hedera.com/learning/sustainability
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on “Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture”Submitted Facebook Coin Imitates Hedera Hashgraph as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRegarding The Coupon Bureau - read this: https://www.prweb.com/releases/single_source_vendor_for_univ... All the use cases are on https://hedera.com
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on “Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system”Submitted Hedera as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor compelling use cases of DLTs take a look at Hedera Hashgraph at https://hedera.com Admittedly Hedera Hashgraph is not strictly a blockchain but is more energy efficient (millions of times less energy use than Bitcoin for example due to not needing to do proof of work and by virtual voting), orders of magnitude faster than traditional blockchains (BTC, ETH etc), and highly secure (true finality within seconds). E…
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on “Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system”Submitted The Hedera Hashgraph [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think the intent is more improving the process of managing records than making creation easier and reduce the potential for loss of data, which such a system could address. "Approximately 44% of health care and pharmaceutical organizations experienced a data breach caused by a third party within the last year, according to a report from critical access management firm SecureLink and Ponemon Institute.[7] “Despite…
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on “The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!”Submitted Speed secrets behind Hedera Smart Contracts 2.0 (Besu EVM optimizations) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOne potential use is consent management healthcare such as consent to participate in a medical trial.[1] "Supply chains" is probably the classic example.[2] [1] https://hedera.com/users/acoer [2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/if-data-is-the-new-oi...
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on “The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!”Submitted Hedera Governing Council Votes to Purchase Hashgraph IP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://hedera.com/network-nodes > Consensus nodes receive transactions, work together to determine consensus using hashgraph, and store the public ledger's latest state. The Hedera Governing Council currently runs all mainnet consensus nodes. As Hedera advances on its path to decentralization, anyone will be able run a consensus node. https://hedera.com/hh-decentralization-of-consensus.pdf > Hedera Hashgraph is a p…
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on “Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017)”Submitted Curv Deepens Digital Asset Security for Hedera HBAR with MPC Technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThen you haven’t heard of Hedera Hashgraph. Concensus with finality. No mining. https://www.hedera.com/learning/what-is-hashgraph-consensus
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on “Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017)”One use case is Hedera Hashgraph, used by an NGO that built a decentralized early warning system for airstrikes in Syria [1]. There are many other large corporate users of the technology for decentralized consensus purposes. Crypto has already moved beyond currency/collectibles. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNE7oTJcOnE https://hedera.com/consensus-service
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on “Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a collectible”The hedera network is autonomous and decentralized - TCB built on top of it. So to issue or redeem your coupon you'd need to participate in TCB, but as a result you'd be able to issue your coupons directly to consumers and then any retailer also in TCB would be able to redeem them. > I fail to see the added benefit of slapping a blockchain/web3/NFT/whatever on top, but maybe I'm just ignorant. Mainly being able to r…
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on “Web3 is the big idea customers didn’t ask for?”Here's a more concrete example: coupons. I, as a supplier, want to prevent coupon fraud - a ~300M year problem. Today they mitigate this with trust relationships between retailers and distributers, which consequentially means that coupons are less widely distributed and more marginal in what discounts they offer than they could be. When coupons are redeemed, a cashier stuffs them in a bag, they get counted and redee…
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on “Web3 is the big idea customers didn’t ask for?”Yes, I misread that. Still, due to how IPFS operates, the majority of those assets will be gone, too. Example from infura: https://community.infura.io/t/does-data-that-hasnt-been-used... --- start quote --- if the data you’ve pinned to IPFS is not accessed within the 6 month period, our garbage collecting system will delete the data. In order to keep data around indefinitely, you will need to access it somehow at le…
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on “Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features”Disclaimer: this article is wrote by the Director of Product Marketing at Hedera, which is a web3/crypto company[1]. Take it with a grain of salt. [1] https://hedera.com/
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on “Web3 skeptics and believers both need a reality check”Meanwhile, Hedera remains carbon negative and 7 orders of magnitude more efficient than Bitcoin. "Today, Hedera is performing the equivalent of over 10,000,000 transactions and 788,000 transactions for the same amount of energy it takes Bitcoin and Ethereum to process 1, respectively." [0]: https://hedera.com/blog/going-carbon-negative-at-hedera-hash... [1]: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160701/
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on “Sabotaging Bitcoin”Bitcoin is to crypto what the Model T is to automobiles - first to market with network momentum. Hedera is the Tesla Model 3 - it's built ground up from first principles to be the future trust layer of the internet, especially for finance/DeFi. It's aBFT consensus mechanism is built with KYC, real-time logging, can do 10^5 TPS vs Bitcoin and has finality in seconds across the network. Hedera is seven orders of magni…
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on a deleted threadIf you do go the crypto route, may I suggest you consider something... cleaner? A single BTC transaction uses ~2 months of electricity of the average household ETH is a bit better but still not there yet. There's "3rd generation" systems like Hedera[0] that use hashgraphs instead and consume about as much electricity as anything else you'd do on the internet. Or at least choose one that's actually dedicated to priva…
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on “Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web”