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Juraj Bednar
Personal blog · juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-enpoliticssecurity
Juraj Bednar's personal blog at juraj.bednar.io covers politics and security. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its analysis of how regulators could enforce transaction bans on Bitcoin through mining, arguing that a small share of miners can make others join. Commenters cite it as a source on crypto regulation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This page is in Slovak. If you don't speak Slovak, you can switch to English version Krotitelia Entropie Vydal som román Krotitelia Entropie - o prepojení s AI, vedomí, identite, sledovaní a o tom, čo sa stane, keď sa niekto vydá inou cestou. Je dostupný v slovenčine, češtine a angličt
Most-linked posts?
- /en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regulators-successfully-introduce-bitcoin-censorship-and-other-dystopias/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-16
What Hacker News says?
> A government absolutely can declare that the correct blockchain is actually this other blockchain, or the only legal algorithm is now a version of their own invention (like the split between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, but enforced by law). To that point, I found this blog post pretty interesting: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regu... tl;dr: Bitcoin mining is mostly done by businesses, busi…
Comment linking /en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regulators-successfully-introduce-bitcoin-censorship-and-other-dystopias/
on “Coinbase S-1”Submitted Bitcoin censorship will most likely come, pt 2 (2020) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionA hashpower majority is not needed. For the latter, if a single digit percentage of the hashpower decides to enforce the ban, other miners in the network have an economic incentive to join the ban as well. The reasoning is explained here https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regu... In short, if a miner chooses to include banned transactions in its block, it means that block cannot be built off of…
Comment linking /en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regulators-successfully-introduce-bitcoin-censorship-and-other-dystopias/
on “$7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved”Submitted EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSure, here is a great article by Juraj Bednar (close the slushpool people): https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regu... BTW Juraj is a great source on anything crypto-related. And from what I now there has been no resistance from the pools so far (at least the EU/US-based ones, though in China it is probably even more difficult.)
Comment linking /en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regulators-successfully-introduce-bitcoin-censorship-and-other-dystopias/
on “Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%”Submitted Bridging Bitchat and MeshCore as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSure, here is a great article by Juraj Bednar (close the slushpool people): https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regu... BTW Juraj is a great source on anything crypto-related. And from what I now there has been no resistance from the pools so far (at least the EU/US-based ones, though in Chine it is probably even more difficult.)
Comment linking /en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regulators-successfully-introduce-bitcoin-censorship-and-other-dystopias/
on “Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%”
