Hacker News with Generative AI: Blockchain

Threat Actor Exposes Playbook for Exploiting NPM to Build Blockchain-Powered (socket.dev)
A threat actor's playbook for exploiting the npm ecosystem was exposed on the dark web, detailing how to build a blockchain-powered botnet.

Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Botnets, Software Development

11 points by feross 2 days ago | 0 comments

Why is Git not considered a "block chain"? (stackoverflow.com)
Why is Git not considered a "block chain"?

Git, Blockchain, Software Development

4 points by kkoncevicius 2 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Betron Markets – Shape the future with your predictions (betron.io)
Dive into a lively and engaging world where each wager amplifies the excitement, offering a smooth, transparent experience powered by cutting-edge technology on the Arbitrum network.

Blockchain, Decentralized Finance, Predictions, Gaming, Arbitrum

10 points by AhmedBn 3 days ago | 0 comments

Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht Is Waiting for Trump to Keep His Word and Set Him Free (wired.com)
As Americans and the world grapple with how last week’s election will reshape the next four years and beyond, few have as much personally at stake from a new presidential administration as one 40-year-old man in a federal penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.

Politics, Law, Crime, Blockchain

4 points by impish9208 7 days ago | 0 comments

Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World (lattice.xyz)
We’re proud to announce that we put Doom onchain, with just 7 milliseconds of latency. And we’re releasing the tech behind the feat to an alpha-tester group (with a full release coming in early 2025), so you can build ultra-fast applications onchain too. Quarry, our new infrastructure that powers this tech, is a full suite of offerings from Lattice that enables MUD applications to run in real-time at scale.

Blockchain, Gaming, Real-time Applications, Infrastructure, Alpha Testing

45 points by bpierre 7 days ago | 8 comments

The Legacy of Web3 (stephendiehl.com)
Web3 is dead, we killed it. But the legacy of the fever dream is still with us.

Web3, Technology, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

14 points by colesantiago 10 days ago | 7 comments

Blockchain-Backed Click App Reinvents Trust in Photojournalism (petapixel.com)
In a digital age when the line between truth and authenticity often blurs, the Click camera app brings a powerful tool to verify the reality behind images.

Blockchain, Photojournalism, Trust, Technology, Photography

8 points by giuliomagnifico 15 days ago | 4 comments

Ubisoft launches blockchain RPG with playable NFTs priced up to $63K (tomshardware.com)

NFTs, Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games

4 points by LorenDB 21 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Apache ResilientDB, High-Performance Open-Source Blockchain (apache.org)
Apache ResilientDB (Incubating) offers a high-throughput yielding distributed ledger built upon scale-centric design principles to democratize and decentralize computation

Blockchain, Open Source, Distributed Ledger, Apache, High Performance

16 points by earthing 23 days ago | 0 comments

Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace (subvert.fm)
Bandcamp's corporate acquisitions threaten independent music. It's time for a new model - one we collectively own and control.

Music Industry, Decentralization, Ownership, Blockchain, Web3

230 points by cloudfudge 34 days ago | 136 comments

Show HN: Did – Decentralized global social feed (github.com/did-1)
DID is a novel decentralized social media infrastructure that empowers users to own and distribute their content.

Decentralization, Social Media, Open Source, Technology, Blockchain

7 points by brisky 34 days ago | 0 comments

Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge (eth.limo)
At the beginning, Ethereum had two scaling strategies in its roadmap. One (eg. see this early paper from 2015) was "sharding": instead of verifying and storing all of the transactions in the chain, each node would only need to verify and store a small fraction of the transactions. This is how any other peer-to-peer network (eg. BitTorrent) works too, so surely we could make blockchains work the same way.

Ethereum, Blockchain, Scaling, Decentralized Networks, Cryptocurrency

95 points by bpierre 35 days ago | 52 comments

Beyond Dune: Accelerating with EVM Query Language (eql.sh)
The title of this article captures the initial reaction many people have when they first learn about EVM Query Language (EQL). Although there are surface-level similarities between EQL and Dune, these two projects are fundamentally distinct in their goals, design, and use cases.

Ethereum, Blockchain, Query Languages, Tools

41 points by iankguimaraes 36 days ago | 7 comments

Practical guide for building a blockchain from scratch in Go (github.com/volodymyrprokopyuk)

Blockchain, Programming, Go, Software Development

19 points by vprokopyuk 37 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Chain Traverser – Fast Ethereum graph explorer (dictynna.com)
Explore the Ethereum blockchain with our in-memory indexing and graph traversal tools.

Ethereum, Blockchain, Tools, Web3

53 points by anophelon 39 days ago | 8 comments

Join-Accumulate Machine: A Semi-Coherent Scalable Trustless VM (graypaper.com)
We present a comprehensive and formal definition of Jam, a protocol combining elements of both Polkadot and Ethereum.

Blockchain, Scalability, Trustless Computing, Cryptography, Distributed Systems

16 points by danicuki 41 days ago | 1 comments

Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (visa.com)
Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, is helping to bridge existing fiat currencies with blockchains through the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), a new product designed to help financial institutions issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on blockchain networks.

Financial Technology, Blockchain, Payments, Digital Assets

72 points by beefman 48 days ago | 29 comments

North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry (coindesk.com)
More than a dozen blockchain firms inadvertently hired undercover IT workers from the rogue state, incurring cybersecurity and legal risks, a CoinDesk investigation found.

Cybersecurity, North Korea, Crypto, Blockchain

11 points by mkeeter 49 days ago | 0 comments

A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python (2021) (karpathy.github.io)
I find blockchain fascinating because it extends open source software development to open source + state. This seems to be a genuine/exciting innovation in computing paradigms; We don’t just get to share code, we get to share a running computer, and anyone anywhere can use it in an open and permissionless manner. The seeds of this revolution arguably began with Bitcoin, so I became curious to drill into it in some detail to get an intuitive understanding of how it works.

Bitcoin, Programming, Blockchain, Open Source, Computer Science

9 points by tosh 54 days ago | 0 comments

A Brief History of Blockchain Interoperability (cacm.acm.org)
Blockchain interoperability conflates the need for distributed systems to communicate with third-party systems without a canonical chain or orchestration layer.

Blockchain, Distributed Systems, Interoperability

45 points by pseudolus 57 days ago | 24 comments

Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn (blockchain.com)
Explore top crypto assets.

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

437 points by mrb 67 days ago | 393 comments

The new EVE MMO uses blockchain tech to create a "boiling financial hellscape" (pcgamer.com)

Blockchain, Gaming, Virtual Economies, MMO

24 points by bpierre 70 days ago | 31 comments

Ask HN: Should I open source my licensing server? (ycombinator.com)
Recently developed an in-house "zero trust" license server based on PKI idea, blockchains, and proof-of-time, to convert a regular "vendor hosted" license server, into one that can be hosted on the buyer side.

Open Source, Software Licensing, Security, Blockchain

41 points by keepamovin 73 days ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Just released a new landing page for a blockchain usage data aggregator (chainspy.net)
Chainspy helps you monitor blockchain activity effortlessly

Blockchain, Data, Web Development, Analytics

5 points by jakemanger 74 days ago | 0 comments

We Are Ethereum Foundation Research (AMA) (reddit.com)

Ethereum, AMA, Blockchain

5 points by wslh 76 days ago | 0 comments

The Generational Transition to Programmable Cryptography (0xparc.org)

Cryptography, Blockchain, Web3, Generational Change, Technology

48 points by newsreaderguy 84 days ago | 9 comments

TRON Project (wikipedia.org)

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance

3 points by bane 88 days ago | 0 comments

There aren't that many uses for blockchains (2022) (calpaterson.com)

Blockchain, Technology, Opinion

49 points by karagenit 92 days ago | 80 comments

Trillian Tessera: Next Generation Tile-Based Transparency Logs (transparency.dev)