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I recommend the ethereum whitepiper. It has a clear description of bitcoin and then goes on to describe other applications of the blockchain:…

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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, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year140 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-02-21 21:26:14 UTC to 2021-03-13 00:30:51 UTC.

02040602014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 6 submissions, 15 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 3 submissions, 10 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 56 mentions; 3 submissions, 53 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 26 mentions; 1 submissions, 25 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21615
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13310
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC56353
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC26125
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 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?
grubles·Oct 28, 2015
Maybe a more descriptive explanation (from the White Paper[0]): "What Ethereum intends to provide is a blockchain with a built-in fully fledged Turing-complete programming language that can be used to create "contracts" that can be used to encode arbitrary state transition functions, allowing users to create any of the systems described above, as well as many others that we have not yet imagined, simply by writing up the logic in a few lines of code." [0]https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
In Ethereum Alarm Clock

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