Content tagged with “crypto”

“ A company uses never-ending video of a wall of lava lamps to generate unpredictable encryption keys for their software. ”

“On the plus side, this book had a good explanation of blockchain in the beginning. It also explains the basics of Smart Contracts. But it’s essentially a user manual for a bunch of software tools. A lot of the book is screenshots of UIs. It was hard to ‘zoom out’ and get a longer view of what the…”

“ A man in Wales was a very early Bitcoin miner. He has 8,000 Bitcoin in a wallet for which the only key is on a hard drive he accidentally threw away. ”

“At its most basic level, an NFT is some digital data that can be uniquely distinguished from any other data. This seems simplistic, but it enables up a lot of interesting secondary effects. Understand that in digital terms, true uniqueness of data is rare. Normally, a byte on a hard disk and an…”

“ A new trend in art is the sale of encrypted files which are guaranteed to be unique and only have a single unencrypted copy. ”

“ Using just conference call video, researchers can reverse-engineer your shoulder movements to figure out what you’re typing with surprising accuracy. ”

“ A mysterious Bitcoin wallet has been dormant since 2015 and contained almost $1 billion. On election night, whomever had access to it suddenly moved all the money out. ”

“ Some investigators took a redacted deposition, and using its own index, they cracked the redactions like a cypher. ”

“ A hypothetical discussion of what might happen if Google got hacked. ”

“ A good explainer of ‘numbers stations,’ which are radio frequencies that broadcast series of numbers on a schedule. It’s assumed they’re communicating to spies in the field, but no one knows for sure. ”

“This is NOT a technical book. It’s more about the larger societal and business implications of blockchain – like, how the world will change because blockchain exists. However, the book might have done well with some more technical information. The most frustrating phrase is ‘on the blockchain.’ The…”

“I got a review copy of ‘Bitcoin for the Befuddled’ from No Starch Press (a publisher I’ve really enjoyed over the years). The title is an accurate description of where I’m at on Bitcoin – I have a basic understanding of it, but the intricacies are escaping me. Sadly, Duning-Kruger being what it is,…”