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The age old question: besides the obvious aesthetic attractiveness, is there really any kind of objective advantages to tube-based audio amps as opposed to solid-state semiconducto…

The reason I walked away from Chrome a couple of years ago is because of the amount of information it sends to Google. I'm curious to know where Safari stands in that regard: how m…

Conspicuously missing from the entire libra story is how they are actually going to manage the peg. How will they handle the custodian counter-party risk? What I mean by that is: f…

Here's a cute way to generate Bitcoin key pairs using only bash and some fairly standard command line utilities (disclaimer: I wouldn't use it to generate production keys). https:/…

>I guess OP thinks that vanity-eth.tk is a website with server side code. I am fairly certain that very few people go and read the entire supposedly client-side JS code served by t…

Aside from the obvious fact that the set everyday numbers (both rationals and reals) are fields, most crypto heavily relies on finite fields. [edit] and come to think of it, I migh…

"I went on vanity-eth.tk and generated a public and a private key" That people are actually still willing to do this in 2019 with BTC above 10K and ETH above 300 always surprises m…