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Status
Company blog · our.status.imsecuritystartups
Status is the company blog at our.status.im, writing about security and startups. Since 2018, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Status.im partners with the team behind the programming language Nim”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Status's blog as see-also references on Ethereum energy use, web3 clients, Nim language sponsorship and messenger privacy comparisons. Most comments only cite posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Read deep dives into cryptography and human rights. Stay current with software releases and technical notes for your secure non-custodial crypto wallet.
Most-linked posts?
- Status.im partners with the team behind the programming language Nim3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-08-07
- Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-12
- Ethereum Is Green3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-01
- /nimbus-fluffly/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-09
- Reproducible Builds with Nix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-12
- Private messengers: what can they see?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-03
What Hacker News says?
The crux of the article is that the front-ends are all routing calls through centralized APIs to get their message included on the blockchain. Infura and Alchemy don't do much. They just pass a JSON-RPC message to an Ethereum node running on their servers. There is some additional indexing services they provide, but there are many open, decentralized alternatives for that such as TheGraph Protocol. And it's not unfe…
Comment linking /nimbus-fluffly/
on “My First Impressions of Web3”Submitted Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack as a story · 490 points
HN discussionFrom the post: > People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will... Fair enough, but there are active efforts to develop ultra-light clients for Ethereum together with the concept of "portal network": https://github.com/ethereum/portal-network-specs/ https://our.status.im/nimbus-fluffly/ > there’s not even a word for an actual untrusted client/server interface that will have to exist somewhere, and no ack…
Comment linking /nimbus-fluffly/
on “My First Impressions of Web3”Submitted Nimbus, An Ethereum 2.0 Sharding Client as a story · 79 points
HN discussionAlso see Ethereum is green: https://our.status.im/ethereum-is-green/
Comment linking /ethereum-is-green/
on “Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge”Submitted Ethereum Is Green as a story · 22 points
HN discussionWe did cover part of it here: https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-t... But to give more detailed explanations: - We are a blockchain company and close partner with the Ethereum Foundation. Ethereum research is done in Python, using Nim allows to quickly transcribe research to fast code. - We focus on resource-restricted devices; for now mobile phone but running a blockchain node on a router mi…
Comment linking /status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/
on “Nim vs. Crystal”Submitted Status.im partners with the team behind the programming language Nim as a story · 19 points
HN discussionStatus dev here (i.e. colleague with the benchmarker) and prolific high-performance Nim libraries author. Note that Nim standard library focuses on maintenance cost as the Nim team is small. When raw performance is needed, Nim gives us the tools to reach for it. For instance at Status we use our own json serialization/deserialization library: https://github.com/status-im/nim-serialization and even Araq, Nim language…
Comment linking /status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/
on “Nim vs. Crystal”Submitted Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App of the Future as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttps://bravenewcoin.com/insights/bug-causes-chaos-on-the-et... https://our.status.im/vitalik-escalates-eth-2-0-merge-as-min...
Comment linking /vitalik-escalates-eth-2-0-merge-as-miners-plan-a-51-attack/
on “Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit”Submitted Embark 3.2 – Much More Than a Moonshot as a story · 11 points
HN discussionhttps://our.status.im/vitalik-escalates-eth-2-0-merge-as-min...
Comment linking /vitalik-escalates-eth-2-0-merge-as-miners-plan-a-51-attack/
on “Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit”Submitted Status App v1 live (iOS/Android) – P2P messenger, crypto-wallet, web3 browser as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> it is a simple perception that Status might disappear tomorrow for any number of reasons, and then what happens to Nim? Status only started sponsoring Nim in 2018[1]. Before that Nim was doing just fine. So the answer to your question is: nothing is going to happen to Nim if Status disappears. 1 - https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-t...
Comment linking /status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/
on “Computer Programming with Nim”Submitted The Surveillance Economy and Why Privacy Does Matter as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAnd there are active efforts to develop ultra-light clients for Ethereum together with the concept of “portal network”: https://our.status.im/nimbus-fluffly/
Comment linking /nimbus-fluffly/
on “Web3 Is Not Decentralization”Submitted Private messengers: what can they see? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe status blog has some good posts covering daos+communities/wallets/zkproofs/clients => https://our.status.im/ https://www.youtube.com/c/ETHGlobal has lots of recordings of talks from their hackathons, their playlists split into different topics https://www.radicalxchange.org/# is full of interesting discussions, organises meetups, more big picture discussions of the stuff web3/crypto is playing with I enjoyed thi…
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on “Web3 Is Bullshit”Submitted The Who, What, & Why of Ethereum Layer 2 Scaling – Rollups as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's called Nimbus, since it wasn't mentioned, here's their website: https://nimbus.team/ and why Nim is explained here: https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-t...
Comment linking /status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/
on “Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language”Submitted Reproducible Builds with Nix as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"We plan to make a significant carbon offset to mitigate the environmental impact of this NFT. Within one week of the closing of this auction we will update this page with details of the steps we took." Every action we take has tradeoffs. Everyone acts hoping that they can bring more good to the world than bad. Thats not to say we shouldn't be critical of decisions people make, but the moral panic around nfts is ove…
Comment linking /ethereum-is-green/
on “An NFT That Saves Lives”Submitted How Status solved for reproducible builds for Android using Nix package manager as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee also this comparison: https://our.status.im/private-messengers-what-can-they-reall...
Comment linking /private-messengers-what-can-they-really-see/
on “Messenger Comparison – Threema, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp”Submitted Status App Introduces Private Peer-to-Peer Messaging Protocol Waku and v1.2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionStaking pools can be decentralized or centralized. For Eth2 to have a bright decentralized future, it's important that decentralized staking pools can emerge and thrive. The Rocket Pool protocol, for example, allows for decentralized pooling: https://medium.com/rocket-pool/rocket-pool-staking-protocol-... See also: https://our.status.im/rocket-pool-integration/
Comment linking /rocket-pool-integration/
on “Ethereum Is Green”Submitted Status and Blockgeeks 3 week virtual hackathon starts today as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Miners have strongly opposed this change, as it will significantly decrease their revenue, and they have even went as far as creating a website dedicated to stopping its integration. The currently listed mining pools on this website that are against EIP-1559 far exceed the required 51% hash power." See also: - https://our.status.im/vitalik-escalates-eth-2-0-merge-as-min... ... as featured here: - https://news.ycomb…
Comment linking /vitalik-escalates-eth-2-0-merge-as-miners-plan-a-51-attack/
on “STOPEIP1559: “Support hard-working Ethereum Miners.””Submitted Nimbus Consensus Layer: past, present, and future as a story · 2 points
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