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The Radix Blog
Company blog · radixdlt.com/postsystemssecurity
The Radix Blog is the company blog at radixdlt.com, writing about systems and security. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Radix blog for technical explanations of its distributed ledger design, including why blockchains and DAGs struggle to scale, its smart contract critique, and its scalability tests.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A decentralized network with the radically better user & developer experience needed for everyone to confidently use Web3 & DeFi.
What Hacker News says?
Smart contracts are a bad paradigm for developing applications on the ledger, they're far too permissive, the stakes are too high to want to trust your assets to arbitrary turing-complete code. You can do much better with composable state machines, because everything you do gets the same level of security as the native token transfers https://www.radixdlt.com/post/radix-engine-a-simple-secure-s... Disclaimer: I work…
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on “Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later”Submitted Radix DLT – Decentralized Ledger Technology as a story · 56 points
HN discussionCan somebody from Sia team compare it to Radix DLT and it's mechanism to shard and distribute data ? https://www.radixdlt.com/
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on “Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network”Submitted Achieving consensus with 99% dishonest actors as a story · 32 points
HN discussionBut they wrote it in the present tense, said it was a world record even ! And how can you say an earlier iteration will come in the future, that seems like a crypto-truth bending like we see a lot :s Admit it, they exaggerated and removed the statement to instead put it in a timeline now saying: Unlimited scalability and composability to carry DeFi into the global mainstream future with sharded, linearly scalable Ce…
Comment linking /post/replaying-bitcoin
on “Jepsen: Radix DLT 1.0-Beta.35.1”Submitted How can developers get started with Scrypto? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAlso, a bit on the test proving scalability (over 1MTPS using the BTC blockchain) https://www.radixdlt.com/post/test-method-part1/ and https://www.radixdlt.com/post/test-method-part2/
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on “Radix DLT – Decentralized Ledger Technology”Submitted Radix Staking and Incentive Rewards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is a nice high-level overview of Tech behind Radix and why blochchain and directed acyclic graph cant scale. https://www.radixdlt.com/developers/technology/
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on “Radix DLT – Decentralized Ledger Technology”Submitted Radix Betanet Is Live as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSlightly more informative: https://www.radixdlt.com/post/scrypto-an-asset-oriented-smar...
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on “Scrypto -Programming Language for DeFi”Submitted Radix DLT – Decentralized Ledger Technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFound what I was most interested in from the FAQ[0]: Can a bad actor take control of a shard? With some difficulty - as the Radix universe is split into 18.4 quintillion shards, and your shard address is deterministic on your wallet address, you would need to continually cycle PGP key generation to get matching shard address keys. In addition to this there are several other sybil and spam attack prevention mechanism…
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on “Radix Tempo whitepaper”