Then please stop bothering us with these specific to your kind non-issues (to us, at least)! I don't want to hear about them all day long as I stay away from this stinky pile and none of the hundreds of technologist I know wants to touch this with a ten-foot pole even or much less so - get involved in these scams and thefts. You have your own communities, so, please, stick to them and don't' pitch these Ponzi schemes to us everywhere! Well, obviously, nobody falls for them anymore, and there's no utility to sell them elsewhere, but, yeah, as any other pyramid scheme, you need a stable supply of stupid people to buy into the scheme. So, that's why you should be banned - otherwise, I would care less, but cut on the noise as it's really annoying and does not serve your self-serving, filthy, greedy goals! Do something meaningful with your lives! I know, there's no other way to buy child porn online except by using cryptos, but for any other earthly need, there are legit, faster, and cheaper payment methods!
I think you need to wake up and see what is happening in your lifetime.
Is this not hacker news? Is this not of interest to technologists?
I think you must know a bunch of not very interesting technologists, because I know countless technologists who are deeply passionate about decentralized monetary systems. They think the kind that reject all new technology as luddites. Which is what you and the nocoiner are. And we don’t like luddites on hacker news, because we are hackers. Savvy?
The wrong function call was made in a program, exposing it to a vulnerability that allowed a cryptographic validation bypass.
That had economic consequences as hundreds of millions of dollars worth of collateral was now worthless.
This is definitely of interest to hackers. If you ignore it the whole living on Solana blockchain thing, this Would be front page news in any cryptographic context.
Well, if you haven't noticed, the HN community does NOT like the type of human material in the craptocurrency space - people who would sell their mothers for a fraction of Bitcoin and then hodl it... or spend it on hookers! I've been mining Bitcoin before it was cool! But when I saw the type of sketchy characters overcrowding the space, I left the sinking ship! I get Bitcoin from time to time and I happen to sell them to the idiots at peaks! Like this last time, for example, I got my Handshake reward, turned it into Bitcoin, and sold at the all-time high - because it's not really hard to know when this is gonna fall... like a knife... but I'm not trying to catch it!
Neither you nor I represent the community, and there are those that like it and those that don’t. It’s funny, it’s almost like hackers are interested in different things. I am glad you are finding using cryptocurrency useful, despite disliking it.
Oh, and you do represent it? How can a hacker, per se, be interested in something that was most probably released by NSA by all indications and which offers just quasi-anonymity?! How can a hacker be interested in something so wasteful, slow, and expensive to transact?! Bitcoin is anything but a hacker's dream!
Hackers like a lot of things made by them, SELinux and Ghidra are two example. Very good products. SELinux protects billions of devices.
I don’t think the NSA invented Bitcoin, there is no evidence of this. It does however serve the purposes of information assurance mission by generating some real world metrics of the cost, in both energy and compute/memory, and also an early warning and bounty system on SHA2 and ECDSA sigs.
Google "How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash" if you haven't already. Bitcoin is a honeypot for illicit actors. And so far it's been serving its purpose well - just like Tor.
