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Marek Narozniak

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Marek Narozniak's personal blog at mareknarozniak.com covers math and science. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A small and visual example of Confidential Transactions”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One HN commenter links this post as a reference on Pedersen commitments and confidential transactions, a cryptographic way to hide amounts while keeping transactions verifiable. Only a bare citation, no judgement of the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A small and visual example of Confidential Transactions
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. You do that with so-called Pedersen commitments [1] [2]. [1] https://elementsproject.org/features/confidential-transactio... [2] https://mareknarozniak.com/2021/06/22/ct/

    Comment linking /2021/06/22/ct/

    on “Anonymous crypto wallets now illegal in the EU”
  2. Submitted Vertex Covers and Independent Sets in game level design (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Constraint Programming (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Quantum Adiabatic Optimization (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Opening the Topological Gap as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Topological Teleportation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A small and visual example of Confidential Transactions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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