We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments and using HN primarily for ideological battle. Those things are against the site guidelines because (a) they are not what this site is for, and (b) they destroy…
Is that related to IRON somehow? PlusToken was certainly a Ponzi, I don't see anything in this article that suggests IRON is/was one.
You seem to share an anti-crytpo outlook and a history of musings on Haskell with the OP. Are you related in some way? You even have another comment [0] defending him. Crying foul.…
I agree, it's very poorly written. "These attacks" are defined as "automated exploitation of computer networks that aims to extract cash from the owner of that network" and "cryptocurrency" is "the singular reason" why…
I agree, the author contradicts themselves immediately. Cryptocurrency is not the "singular" reason, and it is not why these attacks are even "possible." The hypothetical they picked might not work. The methods that…
> The singular reason why these attacks are even possible is due entirely to rise of cryptocurrency. And is entirely enabled by this one technology, it could not exist otherwise. Huh, cryptocurrency existed in 1989,…
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments and using HN primarily for ideological battle. Those things are against the site guidelines because (a) they are not what this site is for, and (b) they destroy…
Is that related to IRON somehow? PlusToken was certainly a Ponzi, I don't see anything in this article that suggests IRON is/was one.
You seem to share an anti-crytpo outlook and a history of musings on Haskell with the OP. Are you related in some way? You even have another comment [0] defending him. Crying foul.…
I agree, it's very poorly written. "These attacks" are defined as "automated exploitation of computer networks that aims to extract cash from the owner of that network" and "cryptocurrency" is "the singular reason" why…
I agree, the author contradicts themselves immediately. Cryptocurrency is not the "singular" reason, and it is not why these attacks are even "possible." The hypothetical they picked might not work. The methods that…
> The singular reason why these attacks are even possible is due entirely to rise of cryptocurrency. And is entirely enabled by this one technology, it could not exist otherwise. Huh, cryptocurrency existed in 1989,…