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Mina Protocol
Company blog · minaprotocol.com/blogprogrammingsecurity
Mina Protocol is the company blog at minaprotocol.com, writing about programming and security. Since 2021, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Mina – The lightest blockchain, powered by participants”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mina Protocol's blog for posts on zero-knowledge proofs, the Kimchi proof-system update, and its roughly 22kb recursive-proof blockchain. Most comments point to the site as a reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Mina – The lightest blockchain, powered by participants6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-01-21
- Solving for Blockchain’s Critical Security Flaw2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-15
- “ The entire blockchain is about 22kb”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-05
What Hacker News says?
For the curious: https://minaprotocol.com/
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on “Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?”Submitted Kimchi: The latest update to Mina’s proof system as a story · 81 points
HN discussionThis has nothing to do with zero-knowledge crypto. Here's some intuition about what zero-knowledge is actually about: https://minaprotocol.com/blog/kimchi-the-latest-update-to-mi...
Comment linking /blog/kimchi-the-latest-update-to-minas-proof-system
on “Confess your love with zero-knowledge”Submitted Mina: Cryptocurrency Protocol with a Succinct Blockchain as a story · 15 points
HN discussionNo one in Bitcoin, that part is an aspiration not a reality. But fwiw the technology does exist now to do that, just in another protocol: https://minaprotocol.com/
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on “Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW”Submitted Solving for Blockchain’s Critical Security Flaw as a story · 8 points
HN discussionFor anyone interested: https://minaprotocol.com/ It compresses the whole history of the blockchain into a proof of less than 21KB using recursive zero knowledge proofs (each block has a proof that the previous proof is valid).
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on “Zero-Knowledge Proofs”Submitted Mina – The lightest blockchain, powered by participants as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOf course you need more than simply a signing infrastructure, you need to make sure that certain properties like not sending more than you have and no double spends are okay. To accomplish that most systems require storing the entire blockchain (I hope you've shipped enough hard drives with it!) [1] Then you either need to have zero bugs from the start or a way to update it. Then you also need to democratize access…
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on “Because I Am Bored”Submitted Solving for Blockchain's Critical Security Flaw as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo, other protocols may have solved those design problems, like Mina (formerly Coda). This is just inherent to Bitcoin’s gen 1 design. https://minaprotocol.com/
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on “Coinbase is a decentralized company, with no headquarters”Submitted “ The entire blockchain is about 22kb” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI don't see why Bitcoin's technology stack is failing if it's what is enabling its current value. Keep in mind as well that the protocol is mutable as long as people agree to change it. Saying BTC is doomed to fail as it's living alongside a multitude of other cryptocurrencies that attempt to solve its shortcomings is also a dubious proposition to me. Take for example the Mina Protocol[0], which eschews proof of wor…
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on “On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]”Submitted Httpz: The internet you can trust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCongratulations to the cryptographers and engineers at Mina for shipping this. We are getting palpably close to efficiently provable general computation. (For others interested in the evolution, see TinyRAM and the various zkEVM efforts especially zkSync2. This is a fascinating development in CS with wide implications.) My issue with Mina as a platform is the token distribution. It's over 50% allocated to insiders:…
Comment linking /blog/mina-token-distribution-and-supply
on “Kimchi: The latest update to Mina’s proof system”Submitted Mina Crypto Blockchain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI see that their article[1] about the size of their blockchain uses "kb" and "kB" almost interchangeably, but, for the record, they mean "kilobytes" (i.e. 22000 bytes). That's still an impressively small number, of course, and it is below what I'll call the Watson-Gates Limit of 3200 kB, which is the amount of data apocryphally needed by all the computers in the world. [1] https://minaprotocol.com/blog/22kb-sized-bl…
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on “Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings”All of the math goes over my head, frankly, but one of the cryptocurrencies I'm interested in is implementing something similar to this afaik ( https://minaprotocol.com/ ). They have a recursive zkSNARK scheme for constant sized proofs of their entire blockchain, so you only ever need to store around 22kb(!) to verify transactions. It sounds like very useful technology, instead of blockchain ledgers only ever increa…
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on “Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings”What 'exactly'? Mina [0][1] is a 'blockchain' that doesn't rely on a third party server and is small enough to run on a phone and on smaller devices; making it extremely decentralized to run a node on almost anything and anywhere. Like many nonsensical comments like the grandparent one who immediately posted an unfounded and sweeping generalization, one must recognise that not all blockchains are all the same and so…
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on “Why we need Decentralization and Web3+”
