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Keep Network
Company blog · blog.keep.networksystemssecuritystartups
Keep Network is the company blog at blog.keep.network, writing about systems, security and startups. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Miners Aren’t Friends”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Keep Network's blockchain research posts, such as "Miners Aren't Your Friends", which covers how miners can exploit badly designed interactions. One commenter cites it when discussing Bitcoin control.
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.
Trust math, not hardware
Most-linked posts?
- Miners Aren’t Friends3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-01-14
What Hacker News says?
> Bitcoin was created as a democratized money that is outside of central control. I'm just beginning to learn about blockchains and bitcoins. At the moment, I don't see how bitcoin is democratic. Having read "Miners Aren't Your Friends" [1], I don't see how it's possible to trust a system where "... each miner controls the blocks they generate, they can also exercise control over the state changes in that block," th…
Comment linking /miners-arent-your-friends-cde9b6e0e9ac
on “My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)”Submitted Miners Aren’t Friends as a story · 394 points
HN discussionA side topic you might find interesting, "Miners are not your friends" [0] which focuses on ways that miners have a mechanism and incentive to subtly exploit some badly-made interactions. [0] https://blog.keep.network/miners-arent-your-friends-cde9b6e0...
Comment linking /miners-arent-your-friends-cde9b6e0e9ac
on “Proof-Of-Work is a Decentralized Clock”Submitted Randomness on Ethereum: Alpha API as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Threshold Signatures as a story · 1 points
HN discussion