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Hugo Nguyen
Personal blog · hugonguyen.medium.comeconomicsphilosophy
Hugo Nguyen's personal blog at hugonguyen.medium.com covers economics and philosophy. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Cryptography Redefines Private Property”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts arguing against Ethereum, covering proof of stake versus proof of work, sharding and related problems. HN commenters link them as sources on these topics, but none judge the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Cryptography Redefines Private Property2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-29
- /work-is-timeless-stake-is-not-554c4450ce182 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-06
What Hacker News says?
Here's some other articles on the problems with Ethereum: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-o... https://hugonguyen.medium.com/proof-of-stake-the-wrong-engin... https://hugonguyen.medium.com/work-is-timeless-stake-is-not-... https://medium.com/hackernoon/sharding-centralizes-ethereum-... https://blog.lamden.io/turing-incompleteness-and-the-sad-sta...
Comment linking /work-is-timeless-stake-is-not-554c4450ce18
on “The Problem with Ethereum”Submitted Bitcoin and the Dunbar Limit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's not really how it works either. Everyone makes decisions individually based on their understanding of the best rules and also tries to keep the network from splitting. There aren't any competing chains, because issues are debated and solved externally. If this consensus fails, then the network splits and there's a fork. After that, everyone can choose either Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash. Neither of them is "correc…
Comment linking /proof-of-stake-the-wrong-engineering-mindset-15e641ab65a2
on “Ethereum Energy Consumption”Submitted Cryptography Redefines Private Property as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhy Proof of Work and not Proof of Stake? https://hugonguyen.medium.com/work-is-timeless-stake-is-not-...
Comment linking /work-is-timeless-stake-is-not-554c4450ce18
on “Why Proof of Stake?”Submitted Cryptography Redefines Private Property as a story · 1 points
HN discussion