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trilema.com is a personal blog at trilema.com about economics and security. Since 2013, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “S.NSA first product - The Cardano”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for older essays on Bitcoin, crypto and security, such as the 4096-bit RSA key dispute and the Cardano and MPEX designs. Commenters also discuss the controversy around its author.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- S.NSA first product - The Cardano3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-01-07
- 4096 RSA key in the strongset factored?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-05-17
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-12
What Hacker News says?
http://trilema.com/2015/that-spiffy-selection-thing/
Comment linking /2015/that-spiffy-selection-thing/
on “Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate”Submitted 4096 RSA key in the strongset factored? as a story · 205 points
HN discussion>I will wait for more clarity before jumping back in. Probably wise given how correlated ETH and BTC prices are. >It is kinda sad that in this technology there are so many frauds like that. It is, but it is also unavoidable. As the author correctly points at towards the end, many of the properties of cryptos (high liquidity, non-reversible, pseudo-anonymous), while very useful to legitimate users, are a wet dream fo…
Comment linking /2013/the-story-of-pointless-and-witless/
on “The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine”Submitted The Phuctoring as a story · 96 points
HN discussionYou can always sacrifice speed for security. I like this design which was used to manage bitcoin: http://trilema.com/2013/mpex-tech-stuff/ . Blockchain is a way of creating distributed ledgers. The rest is ideology. If you are making a publicly accessible API you can chose how to implement it. Regulations were applied to digital cash but given more run room with crypto.
Comment linking /2013/mpex-tech-stuff/
on “Financial innovations brought by technology”Submitted To the DAO and the Ethereum community: Fuck you as a story · 90 points
HN discussionThis guy calls it BS. Any thoughts? http://trilema.com/2014/the-united-states-scammers-service-f...
Comment linking /2014/the-united-states-scammers-service-formerly-marshalls-service/
on “For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins”Submitted More factored RSA keys, and assorted other considerations as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWind power is not viable: http://trilema.com/2016/heres-where-you-forget-about-wind-po...
Comment linking /2016/heres-where-you-forget-about-wind-power-as-an-alternative-source-of-power/
on “Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly”Submitted IoT Drama Hits Solar Inverters with Revealing Data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPossibly some people have been exposed to mircea through hearing about his insane quotes such as: The most you can do, after having been educated/raped, is picking the what and the how for other, later, virgins. http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody... Or they have read his Guide To Beating Women blog post: http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ Or perhaps they have read how his site for…
Comment linking /2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/
on “About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key”Submitted Python 2 Finally Stable, No Reason for Python 3 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMeanwhile, on the original post, the author is acting like HN was tampering with the ranking of the article because it started doing poorly after people realized that a real key wasn't factored: > "Update II : Amusingly enough, it seems Hacker News hand-diddled their story list to remove this discussion. Way to go Ydumbinator crew!" [0] [0]: http://trilema.com/2015/full-disclosure-4096-rsa-key-in-the-...
Comment linking /2015/full-disclosure-4096-rsa-key-in-the-strongset-factored/
on “About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key”Submitted Bitcoin and the poor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReading this, I feel compelled to repost this old but still largely relevant blogpost: http://trilema.com/2013/the-story-of-pointless-and-witless/
Comment linking /2013/the-story-of-pointless-and-witless/
on “I just lost 1,400 BTC”Submitted The sins of the group of posers behind the so called “Bitcoin Foundation” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://trilema.com/2013/why-i-nixed-p2p-colored-coins-and-al...
Comment linking /2013/why-i-nixed-p2p-colored-coins-and-all-that-jazz/
on “Truthcoin: Trustless, Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Marketplace”Submitted MPEx CEO responds to SEC inquiries as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>What? Who? Mircea Popescu, He is the original guy who started promoting the idea that it was a mistake to raise the block size unless some incentive to run a full node was added to the system. I don't think he actually supports segwit either, he thinks soft forks are crap. He is the original voice in opposition to block size increases though and many people listen to him. http://trilema.com/ A lot of people disagre…
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on “The True Cost of Bitcoin Transactions”Submitted 2016 Internet Cenus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think Cardano uses avalanche noise. http://trilema.com/2013/snsa-first-product-the-cardano/ > E) Entropy generator. This is an avalanche noise array, with some sanity checking in place. Have I misunderstood?
Comment linking /2013/snsa-first-product-the-cardano/
on “Pure Randomness Extracted from Two Poor Sources”Submitted Introducing the Bitcoin ISP on Trilema as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, all this nonsense was brought up in the previous cover-up of this story also. See http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-the-factored-4096-rsa-keys-st... for a discussion of that.
Comment linking /2015/on-how-the-factored-4096-rsa-keys-story-was-handled-and-what-it-means-to-you/
on “The Phuctoring”Submitted S.NSA first product - The Cardano as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPeople, such as the same nutjob who is doing it now: http://trilema.com/2015/full-disclosure-4096-rsa-key-in-the-... Explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9561179
Comment linking /2015/full-disclosure-4096-rsa-key-in-the-strongset-factored/
on “The Phuctoring”The announcement is here: http://trilema.com/2016/the-phuctoring/ Other related articles are in their "breaking news" category: http://trilema.com/category/breaking-news/ By the way, I just noticed I'm on their very first list, but I never got the promised email.
Comment linking /category/breaking-news/
on “The Phuctoring”- 21 · 2016-06-18
He is pretty famous in the Bitcoin community. He donated $20K to save OpenBSD, so he certainly has money for lawyers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7087800 He also is not scared easily, here is he refusing a SEC request of questionable jurisdiction - http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institutions-a...
Comment linking /2014/interacting-with-fiat-institutions-a-guide/
on “To the DAO and the Ethereum community: Fuck you” You don't have to keep your private key on a general purpose computer. See Cardano -- http://trilema.com/2013/snsa-first-product-the-cardano/
Comment linking /2013/snsa-first-product-the-cardano/
on “Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support”Urbit has no shortage of true believers who will insist that, in practice, Hoon -- and Urbit's alarmingly weird verbiage in general -- is very easy and pleasant to use and not at all strange, despite it being as penetrable to hackers outside the project as, say, the rantings of a Sea Org member. In fact I think a major portion of the purpose of the project is to produce a vanguard of true believers who buy into the…
Comment linking /2013/so-this-urbit-thing/
on “Crash course in Nock (2013)”Thanks for the heads-up on the author; you're not the only one doubting the story: http://trilema.com/2013/badbios-aka-badlydonedamagecontrol/ At a minimum, this will inform a few more people about real work that's been done with USB and hard drive controllers (by @travisgoodspeed, @SpritesMods). https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/393584001534812160
Comment linking /2013/badbios-aka-badlydonedamagecontrol/
on “More on my ongoing chase of #badBIOS malware.”
