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Jameson Lopp
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Jameson Lopp writes Cypherpunk Cogitations, a personal blog at blog.lopp.net about economics and security. Since 2021, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “The Death of Decentralized Email”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jameson Lopp's blog for writing on Bitcoin, including Hal Finney and Satoshi authorship, block time variance, and email centralization, and for seed storage tests.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jameson Lopp's thoughts on Bitcoin, Privacy, and Freedom.
Most-linked posts?
- The Death of Decentralized Email6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-11-04
- Why Nostr Matters4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-04
- Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-22
- Bitcoin Block Time Variance: Theory vs. Reality (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-17
- Testing OpenAI Whisper Transcription2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-02
What Hacker News says?
> By cheating I meant making a sidechain that would become longer than the mainchain, thus enabling a double spending attack. A double spend attack can only spend the attackers coins. > If the amount of money to be made in double spending attack is higher than honest mining someone will make it, the only thing protecting against that is that the cost of mining must be large enough compared to value being transferred…
Comment linking /are-chinese-miners-threat-bitcoin/
on “Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index”Submitted To Swat a Swatter as a story · 47 points
HN discussion> Yet there is the belief that you can somehow create a coherent experience into a “whatever”. Whatever it is actually. My first mastodon instance was de-federated by accident from my current instance. I moved to that instance though because many other hackers in the Open Source space did, and unlike Fosstodon it seems to allow non English content which I do care about quite a bit. (After all my life and household i…
Comment linking /death-of-decentralized-email/
on “Scaling Mastodon is impossible”Submitted Was Satoshi a Greedy Miner? as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThey're probably just referring to the (historically decreasing) variance in time between blocks, nominally 10 minutes. Not an outage by any stretch but occasionally annoying. It's smoother in higher frequency blockchains. https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-block-time-variance/
Comment linking /bitcoin-block-time-variance/
on “Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hours-long outage”Submitted The Death of Decentralized Email as a story · 21 points
HN discussionMany people have, if I remember correctly. The most recent one is at https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/
Comment linking /hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/
on “Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper”Submitted A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere are more details addressing a bunch of the first thoughts people might have here: https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/
Comment linking /hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/
on “Hal Finney was the designer of Bitcoin”Submitted Bitcoin Block Time Variance: Theory vs. Reality (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAgree. I am so happy that Dorsey's other open protocol (nostr) went another route. There is no 'official' client, there is just a whole bunch of competing clients, some of which have even attracted some small funding strategies to maintain a development team for the forceable future. But none of these clients are big enough to push through locked-in features. They all have to play nice (for now, like SMTP and IMAP o…
Comment linking /why-nostr-matters/
on “ATProto Isn't What You Think”Submitted The Death of Decentralized Email as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor those of you not familiar with Jameson Lopp's extensive writing on the topic of email centralization, I recommend reading this post from his blog: "The death of decentralized email: A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol." https://blog.lopp.net/death-of-decentralized-email/
Comment linking /death-of-decentralized-email/
on “How to be a sovereign email user? "you can't, we don't know how to do it."”Submitted Are Chinese Miners a Threat to Bitcoin? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionArticles such as https://blog.lopp.net/metal-bitcoin-seed-storage-stress-test... will help you pick among the various seed stores out there.
Comment linking /metal-bitcoin-seed-storage-stress-test/
on “Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?”Submitted Why Nostr Matters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhisper is way better than at least some other transcription solutions: https://blog.lopp.net/open-source-transcription-software-com...
Comment linking /open-source-transcription-software-comparisons/
on “Whisper.cpp example running fully in the browser”Submitted The Death of Decentralized Email as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A History of Bitcoin Transaction Dust and Spam Storms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing OpenAI Whisper Transcription as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems with Coinbase Withdrawal Fees as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Transcription Software Comparisons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Is the 21M Bitcoin Cap Defined and Enforced as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Decentralized Email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Twitter Musk Have as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lopp's 2020 Bitcoin annual review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Untracked Generation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2025 Bitcoin Node Performance Tests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned from seed phrase backup solutions as a story · 1 points
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