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Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

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Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:01:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year51 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-01-26 18:05:08 UTC to 2024-03-20 17:56:58 UTC.

0369122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 3 submissions, 6 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 5 submissions, 6 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC936
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1156
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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pipermerriam·Dec 24, 2015
I've come to believe that "the powers that be" will never stop this progressive march towards pervasive monitoring and surveillance. If we succeed in keeping this bill from passing, we'll just be fighting another just like it or worse in a few years. We have to make it fundamentally impossible to monitor our private communications and to share our private data. To get there, it is going to take a complete shift in how we build internet software. These problems cannot be fixed using the current status quo. I highly encourage you to start looking into projects like Ethereum, IPFS, Whisper and Swarm. The offer a way to build web applications that are completely immune to censorship, monitoring, and large scale data breaches while giving user's control over their data. This isn't to say that there aren't battles to be fought in the legis
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lation arena. There are and kudos to entities like the EFF for leading the charge. What I'm trying to say is that as long as it's possible to do pervasive surveillance, we're going to keep seeing the powers that be continue in that direction. If it is possible, they will try and do it. Sources: * https://www.ethereum.org/ * https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Swarm---distrib... * https://ipfs.io/ * https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Whisper-Overview
In How does the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 change the Internet surveillance laws?
natrius·Jun 15, 2015
That used to be true. It isn't anymore, because people are working on decentralizing the web. This makes the web uncensorable and permanent. The two most promising projects in this area are IPFS[1] and Ethereum's Swarm[2]. When we rebuild social networking and publishing on top of protocols like these, the problem this post illustrates will go away. Anyone who wants to help build these systems can email me (address in profile) and I'll try to send you to the right people and resources. [1] http://ipfs.io/ [2] https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Swarm-Contract, https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/URL-Scheme
In I've been scrubbed
0x8D3A·Apr 10, 2015
Scammers isn't the least of it. The system they have designed and executed is ludicrously insecure and falls to even the most basic of flaws. It's unlikely that it will ever be able to achieve consensus given the endless stream of crashes and logic errors, like being able to send yourself a negative balance (thus, infinite money) or crashing every node in the network by sending a block header with a nonce of zero. The sheer quantity of security bugs and undefined behavior in the two clients attempting to act in bit-for-bit identical ways in two different languages is quite alarming. https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%9... I'd bet against it ever getting to try it's consensus given that their launch is now going to be completely centralized (ie, it can't stand up on it's own let alone with malicious attackers, so it
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's going to be remotely controlled by the developers for now). Will they ever remove the crutch and risk everything crumbling? Seems very doubtful.
In Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, Talks Bitcoin’s Most Ambitious Successor

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