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Nimiq
Company blog · nimiq.com/blogprogrammingeconomics
Nimiq is the company blog at nimiq.com, writing about programming and economics. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Nimiq – The Browser Based Blockchain”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nimiq's site to describe a web-native cryptocurrency and payment protocol built on WebRTC and WebSockets, including its team page. The comments do not assess the writing.
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.
It's a centralized world. Nimiq gives it back to the individual.
Most-linked posts?
- Nimiq – The Browser Based Blockchain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-08
What Hacker News says?
About the Team: https://nimiq.com/team/ we are talking about a new cryptocurrency, blockchain, peer net mining system as well as transaction protocol all built on WebRTC and WebSockets? exactly!
Comment linking /team/
on “Show HN: Nimiq: A Frictionless Payment Protocol Native to the Web”Submitted Show HN: A Browser-based Blockchain as a story · 186 points
HN discussionYou'd like to know what other reasonable contenders there are. The whole scene is very speculative at the moment - the technology clearly has huge potential, but its immature and hasn't solved some key problems like scalability and UX. Apart from the 3 you've mentioned I would suggest you could look at some of the projects that have recently launched ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Many of these are plain stupid, and…
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on “Buy Etherium, Litecoin, or ?”Submitted Show HN: Now live, what BTC should have been as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Send cryptocurrency via Cashlink (beta) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we managed to directly swap EUR with BTC using Atomic Swaps/HTLCs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nimiq, a web based blockchain, raised more than $10M in less than 24h as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nimiq Open Asset Swap Interaction Scheme (Oasis) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Join the upcoming ZKP Ceremony as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exchanging fiat to crypto fully non-custodial now in open BETA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Albatross DemoNet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nimiq – The Browser Based Blockchain as a story · 1 points
HN discussion