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The Technological Case Against Bitcoin And Blockchain

- Luke Plant tl;dr: "Cypto-mania is not really about technology. If you want to understand what is going on, you need to understand it at the level of economics, culture and human nature." Luke asks the following 3 questions to evaluate cryptocurrencies: what problem does this try to solve? Does it actually solve it? What costs does it bring with it?

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An Extremely Casual Code Review Of MetaMask’s Crypto

tl;dr: "This post describes a very casual code review of a few cryptography functions used by MetaMask. It does not describe any vulnerabilities. If you’re the kind of person who likes a meandering and amateurish code review that goes absolutely nowhere, you’ll enjoy this post."

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