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Random blatherings by Jeff
Personal blog · garzikrants.blogspot.comeconomicsprogrammingpolitics
Random blatherings by Jeff is a personal blog at garzikrants.blogspot.com about economics, programming and politics. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Bitcoin data spam and evil data”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jeff's posts on Bitcoin topics: data spam in the blockchain, the StorJ storage idea, and Avalon ASIC mining hardware. The comments cite the posts as sources and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Bitcoin data spam and evil data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-30
What Hacker News says?
There is all sort of graffiti and other garbage embedded in the blockchain. http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/04/on-bitcoin-data-spam...
Comment linking /2013/04/on-bitcoin-data-spam-and-evil-data.html
on “Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction”Submitted Bitcore Core v0.9.0 release overview as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI'm always fascinated by StorJ. http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/storj-and-bitcoin-au... TLDR; a SaaS system that not only auto-scales, but does so autonomously. When it has excess funds, it buys more VMs and provisions them with itself. If cashflow is low, it shuts some down. Add in the ability to create accounts (using bitcoin as currency) and you could very quickly lose the paper trail and have a SaaS owne…
Comment linking /2013/01/storj-and-bitcoin-autonomous-agents.html
on “Ask HN: Are there forgotten servers out there?”Submitted Response to Adam Cohen by a Bitcoin developer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI prefer the term skeptic, and I think it's quite reasonable to be skeptical of a $1300 device capable of generating $210/day with still no proof. I think the skeptics will be much calmer once he plugs it in and verifies that it does what it says it does. EDIT: Now confirmed on Jeff's blog: http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/avalon-its-alive.htm...
Comment linking /2013/01/avalon-its-alive.html
on “First Bitcoin ASIC, Delivered to Core Bitcoin Developer”Submitted Bitcoin data spam and evil data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPicture of the inside: http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/avalon-modular-room-... I hope this will put a stop to most of the non-believers constantly trolling on bitcointalk.org
Comment linking /2013/01/avalon-modular-room-to-expand.html?m=1
on “First Bitcoin ASIC, Delivered to Core Bitcoin Developer”Submitted Tunisia: the first Wikileaks revolution? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much does it cost to data mine a street corner? (DIY NSA) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to support bitcoin core development as a story · 1 points
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