Gwern — Crypto/Bitcoin↗

Local archives are useful for personal purposes, but sometimes, in investigations that may be controversial, you want to be able to prove that the copy you downloaded was not modified and you need...

The cypherpunk movement laid the ideological roots of Bitcoin and the online drug market Silk Road; balancing previous emphasis on cryptography, I emphasize the non-cryptographic market aspects of...

2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex design with few attractive theoretical properties...

In cryptography, it is easy to adjust encryption of data so that one, some, or all people can decrypt it, or some combination thereof.

Silk Road 1 2011-01-31 2013-10-02 FALSE raided TRUE silkroadvb5piz3r.

4 Australians were arrested for trying to buy guns from US LE-controlled seller “weaponsguy” February - March 2015 11ya , searches also turning up “Four illegal firearms, ammunition, two clandestine...

A number of other datasets are known to exist but are unavailable or available only in restricted form, including: law enforcement scrapes (see the Force briefing ), seized server images National...

Blockchains or tokens for carbon dioxide removal have sometimes been proposed, but provide little advantage.