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Shocking Discoveries about Blockchain Bitcoin and Ethereum Network-Level Vulnerabilities
We live on a planet where new technology seems to be working against the vast majority of humans living on this planet, rather than helping us to live better. This is sometimes called “singularity”, and Tristan Harris, a former Google ethics guru has now joined a public crusade so that tech companies “stop exploiting our …
On a Crash Course
Some interesting facts: The wholesale price of gas went up 800% in 2021 (FT). About as much as NVIDIA stock price or bitcoin market price went up in 3 years. The price of industrial sillicon has also surged by some 800% recently (as it did during the 2008-2009 financial crisis). In the same way, the …
A UK Court Ruled that A Crypto Research Paper Should Be Censored
A Prominent Bitcoin Promoter is Punished for Sharing the Satoshi Original Paper and Bitcoin Core Developers Surrender Sad day for freedom of speech in cryptography. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright has won a legal battle claiming copyright infringement on the part of bitcoin.org for hosting the Bitcoin original whitepaper. After censorship of Garcia paper …
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Edward DeBono, the Precursor of Bitcoin Died
Edward de Bono, scientist and writer, inventor of the concept of “lateral thinking”, died on 9 June 2021, aged 88. In 1994 he proposed the famous concept of IBM dollar, which is a bit like the father of bitcoin, in several ways: It would be private money, not controlled by the state. Basically IBM would …
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RSA is Broken?
After a decade of heavily government-sponsored propaganda about quantum computers, we are finally discovering the truth. RSA is NOT secure, not even against normal computers. Edited and added in 2021-2023: The story in unfolding slowly and so far can be summarized as follows: For years best known factoring and lattice algorithms did not exactly work …
Crypto Currency Alt Coins are Booming
Best period in crypto history ever. ADDED 6 Feb 2021: traders who trade altcoins will be interested in this.
Crypto is Now Worth 1 Trillion Dollars and Why -Strangely- It Makes A Lot of Sense to Compare Bitcoin to Gold
Yes, the market cap of all crypto currencies combined has reached 1 Trillion US dollars, see also top line ticker here. I have predicted this 3 years ago, after the market collapsed, and now it is a fact: we are past 1T$, however much market cap valuations of this kind are highly questionable. Unrealistic inflation …
An Anomalous Differential Attack on a Block Cipher
In this attack a differential propagates with difficulty for some 20, 40 and up to 64 rounds. We can say that the propagation encounters some “friction”, because the non-linear functions do not always behave as the attacker would like them to behave. Everything looks normal and this is what happens for all block ciphers all …
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Hacking a Linux PC at a Close Distance without Being Connected to a Network
The attack allows the attacker to execute arbitrary code on another PC running Linux. The exploit is possible due to an extremely serious vulnerability in Bluetooth stack inside Linux. The attacker literally can run an application of his choice on the other PC. The exploit was found by Andy Nguyen, a security researcher at Google. …
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