Links 2023-03-30
Some older texts, all about blockchains …
- Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree – ACM Queue, Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark
The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.
- Git, PGP, and the Blockchain: A Comparison – Netfuture, Marcel Waldvogel
An attempt at technological genealogy.
- XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress – apenwarr
XML solved syntax, which turned out not to be the problem. Blockchains [purport to] solve centralization, which will turn out not to be the problem. But they do create the incentive to slash and burn and invest a lot of money hiring consultants.
- 10 years of… whatever this has been – apenwarr
I forgot one essential reason bitcoin has survived: Because people really, really, really want it to.
- Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain – Kai Stinchcombe
After years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain—besides currency speculation and illegal transactions.
- Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster – Drew DeVault
Cryptocurrency has invented an entirely new category of internet abuse.