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> You can just create a centralized system that does the same thing as Bitcoin and consume less power. It is that simple. You wouldn't be allowed to do this unfortunately.

No problem at all, thank you.

If you add the third optional argument of "enter" when running the sha256.rb script you can use your keyboard to step through. I haven't set this up for the individual animations t…

I follow Tamás Görbe on Twitter and he regularly posts cool mathematical animations: https://twitter.com/TamasGorbe/status/1238448040521932801

1) Thank you. 2) It's certainly a combination I never anticipated. 3) I look forward to the book.

Thank you for being so kind, it means a lot.

My pleasure, thank you.

I have thought about it. Any particularly interesting ones?

I wanted to understand how SHA-256 works, so I made a terminal animation that shows the bitwise operations at each step. I wrote a text guide in the README.md to explain what's goi…

A friend of mine stretched her ears and went to Dr. Evil to have them sown up. He did a great job, and it cost £200. This is not available on the NHS and probably would have cost t…

I've been using Neo4j to store the bitcoin blockchain. Bitcoin transactions have a graph structure, and so by storing the entire blockchain in a graph database you can easily query…

I like the analogy in your final paragraph. I see hacker news as the nurse in the classroom setting.

I suppose there may be a distinction between asking "how does anaesthesia work?" and "should I perform surgery at home?".

I never understand why people try to separate blockchain and bitcoin.

Sure, there have been multiple bubbles. Always good to see the tulip posters keeping at it.

When does it stop being a fad?

Classic hacker news. Ask for technical advice, get called incompetent.

Looks cool, thanks.

When I'm coding throughout the day I sometimes play games like Agar.io to break up the work. Probably not quite as good as taking a walk, but still enjoyable. Do you play any small…