DOdonutloop·Oct 9, 2021Submission
Show HN: Nano with a focus on removing inefficiencies in other cryptocurrencies
1 points · Open discussionnanocurrency
nano-node
C++2017–2021
nanocurrency / nano-node
nano-node
Nano is digital currency. Its ticker is: XNO and its currency symbol is: Ӿ
9Distinct people
15Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.5KGitHub stars
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What it is
Nano is digital currency. Its ticker is: XNO and its currency symbol is: Ӿ
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by year15 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2017-12-19 07:28:53 UTC to 2021-10-09 10:14:02 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 3 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
15 sourcesNano: Most Eco Friendly Cryptocurrency
2 points · Open discussionThe project has 2800 stars on Github and many redditors are talking about it.
https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node
In Bitcoin vs. NanoShow HN: What Bitcoin Meant to Be
13 points · Open discussionClemahieu ( nano project ) eschews technical questions
2 points · Open discussionNano / Raiblocks is a scam in the sense it is created for free, and old users need new users to dump their nano at a profit to new bag holders.
The initial distribution of XRB was performed through
"manual mining" limited via a captcha.
The distribution rate was
17 XRB (Raiblocks) per hour per ip4.
This method was easy to automate, and easy to bypass with the plethora of VPNs and users who own hundreds of IP4/IP6 addresses. Presumably the dev team has the vast majority, millions of Rai/Nano.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=raiblock+captch...
https://github.com/nanocurrency/raiblocks/wiki/Design-featur...
These users need new people to buy their Raiblocks / Nano in order to profit off this scam.
In First Lightning mainnet releaseInteresting this explanation conveniently omits any mention of how all Nano (aka RaiBlocks) was allocated to the developer, with only some of it being "distributed" via a website with a captcha setup by the lone dev.
The initial distribution of XRB was performed through
"manual mining" limited via a captcha.
The distribution rate was 17 XRB (Raiblocks) per hour per ip4.
Dev aside, this method was easy to automate, and easy to bypass with the plethora of VPNs and users who own hundreds of IP4/IP6 addresses.
https://github.com/nanocurrency/raiblocks/wiki/Design-featur...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=raiblock+captch...
In Simple Nano ExplanationNano is a great alternative and was thought out before IOTA. It was one of the first paper to be published about Block Lattice.
It is what Bitcoin said it would be fast and fee-less cryptocurrency.
https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks
In IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occurRaiBlocks(XRB) – Tesnet for what? does it in production
1 points · Open discussionRaiblocks has potential to be a good currency, but like any other crypto when will people stop holding and start spending. https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks
In Goldman Sachs Report Explores Use of Bitcoin as CurrencyShould a typo qualify for a bug bounty?
2 points · Open discussionRaiBlocks is designed to be a feeless, instant, high throughput cryptocurrency
1 points · Open discussionFor the curious, the repo is here: https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks
Looking at the commit stats, it looks like almost all the work so far is by clemahieu. It'll be interesting to see if his codebase is solid enough to allow more contributors to easily hop in.
I thought their wiki page listing potential attacks was also pretty interesting: https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks/wiki/Attacks
In RaiBlocks: A Feeless Distributed Cryptocurrency Network [pdf]Cryptocurrency: A new kind of Blockchain not a Bitcoin fork
3 points · Open discussion