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Interview about Bitcoin for Slovak Radio International
The wonderful host of Slovak Radio International Jonathan McCormick interviewed me about cryptocurrencies. Enjoy!
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Solution to crony capitalism?
When I first heard about a new episode of Econtalk with Michael Munger (and the Econtalk host Russ Roberts), I didn’t pay attention to the title, I just new it has to…
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Sharing files using send.firefox.com
Sharing files has been an issue. There were several services for that, I mainly used transfer.sh and dropbox/google drive. Now that Mozilla Foundation launched send.firefox.com, I switched to it. It is not…
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Front-running on content platforms with market – case study of yours.org front-running bot (part 2)
In previous part, I shared what is interesting about content sharing networks that incorporate direct market mechanisms such as upvoting, tipping, paid comments and paid content (paywall). In this part, I will…
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Paid content networks – how to get rewarded for creating content, a case study of yours.org (part 1)
One of the main problems that many people have with the Internet is that is free. Of course we all love free stuff, but is it really free? No, we just don’t…
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Even more privacy with DNS over TLS
In my previous post I described how to increase your privacy using DNScrypt and cloudflare’s DNS over TLS service. I was finally able to deploy this easily without hacking on Turris Omnia’s…
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Attack on crypto attack has begun… and it is not what you think
The attacks on crypto by banks and states have begun – and they might not even be aware of it. It’s emergent behavior. Let’s see what happened.
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Patents in crypto – not a way to go
Cryptocurrencies are usually open-source and it’s by design. They would be less trustworthy if they were not. It is essential for the nodes to be open-source, for multiple implementations to be viable.…
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Who would run full nodes? Who would build the roads?: How to solve the scarcity issue of full nodes – a different look at the scaling debate
I am going to provide a different perspective on the scaling debate, specifically looking for solutions to problems that both sides of the debate present, not only weighting which side is more…
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More privacy with DNS over HTTPS
As Cloudflare announced their 1.1.1.1 DNS service yesterday, I decided to give it a try. There are two reasons for that: They promise not to log your requests and it seems that…