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Scott Driscoll
Personal blog · imponderablethings.comprogrammingeconomics
Scott Driscoll's personal blog at imponderablethings.com covers programming and economics. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts as a concise, technical introduction to how Bitcoin and blockchain work, going beyond the high-level overviews found in most explainer videos.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm an engineer, aspiring entrepreneur, this is where I write interesting things I've learned.
Most-linked posts?
- How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-07-31
What Hacker News says?
To really understand cryptocurrencies, you must understand Bitcoin. Not just its inner workings but where it came from and how it became what it is today. The rest of the cryptocurrencies are only hoping to gain Bitcoin's popularity (which Ethereum is getting close to) that it maintained for nearly a decade. Back in the day the following links helped me understand bitcoin: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-b…
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on “Ask HN: A good primer on cryptocurrencies?”Submitted In the Future, When Robots do All Our Work, What of Capitalism? as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThis video does a great job explaining how Bitcoin works. Here's the accompanying blog post: http://www.imponderablethings.com/2013/07/how-bitcoin-works-...
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on “Bitcoin explained”Submitted How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLast night after reading about the Parity Multi Sig attack I decided to finally try and read up on this subject, but quickly got annoyed with all the 'how bitcoin/blockchain works' videos that repeat the same high level points without scratching any of my technical itches. That was until I found this very concise gem of an introduction: http://www.imponderablethings.com/2013/07/how-bitcoin-works-... Via. https://blo…
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on “How does the Blockchain Work explained simply (2016)”Submitted How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood as a story · 2 points
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