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what's your problem with bitcoin? maybe you just have to accept that a lot of the HN and crypto audience is interested in bitcoin.

drdaeman 13y ago
Articles like "Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto Is Reportedly Worth Over $400 Million" or "Insuring the Bitcoin loss with another digital currency" have no relation to crypto (especially, cryptanalysis), security or privacy.
- GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  Hello! Creator of Cryptanalys.is here. There is a downvote button, so presumably once more people start using the site those posts wont make it to the top so easily. Right now it's just me myself and I researching the most popular stuff being talked about that's somewhat related to "cryptucurrencies, cryptography, and privacy" which those two titles fall under.
kjs3 13y ago
Bitcoin isn't really the point. If they put up a site claiming to be about "crypto, security and privacy", but 80% of the posts they attract (or post themselves because they don't have critical mass) are on a single topic, then either it's really not about "crypto, security and privacy", or they're doing a really bad job building out the site. It's not like there isn't a whirlwind of activity in cryptography outside of hashes, nor a lack of security incidents to discuss. And requiring JS? On a security site? Fail.
- GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  Creator of Cryptanalys.is here. You raise a good point. Perhaps I will make an all-text version of the frontpage for the ultra-security-minded user? Similar to the RSS feed: https://cryptanalys.is/rss.php https://cryptanalys.is/rss.php (which isn't viewable at the moment due to an encoding error according to http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcryptanalys.is%2Frss.php http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcry... ) Maybe a "retro" version of the homepage would be to your liking? Like this: http://retro.hackaday.com/ http://retro.hackaday.com/ The site launched just a few days ago. I've been splitting my time the last few days between buying up marketing spaces and quickly skimming the crpyto/security world so the quality and depth of the articles certainly need some work, I agree.
p4bl0 13y ago
> what's your problem with bitcoin? It doesn't interest me. For various reasons which mainly includes political ones. > maybe you just have to accept that a lot of the HN and crypto audience is interested in bitcoin. I entirely accept that (however I'd remove "and crypto" from your sentence to make it closer to the truth). I'm not complaining that people on HN post a lot of Bitcoin related content. It's a community website, not my own. If Bitcoin interest people in the community then it should be there. There is too much Bitcoin for my taste, but I just don't click on it and look for the other stuff that actually are of interest to me. And there are still a lot of interesting discussions on HN that are not about Bitcoin.
- GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  I'll try to add some more non-bitcoin related stuff right now!

drdaeman 13y ago

Articles like "Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto Is Reportedly Worth Over $400 Million" or "Insuring the Bitcoin loss with another digital currency" have no relation to crypto (especially, cryptanalysis), security or privacy.

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Hello! Creator of Cryptanalys.is here. There is a downvote button, so presumably once more people start using the site those posts wont make it to the top so easily. Right now it's just me myself and I researching the most popular stuff being talked about that's somewhat related to "cryptucurrencies, cryptography, and privacy" which those two titles fall under.

kjs3 13y ago

Bitcoin isn't really the point. If they put up a site claiming to be about "crypto, security and privacy", but 80% of the posts they attract (or post themselves because they don't have critical mass) are on a single topic, then either it's really not about "crypto, security and privacy", or they're doing a really bad job building out the site. It's not like there isn't a whirlwind of activity in cryptography outside of hashes, nor a lack of security incidents to discuss. And requiring JS? On a security site? Fail.

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Creator of Cryptanalys.is here. You raise a good point. Perhaps I will make an all-text version of the frontpage for the ultra-security-minded user? Similar to the RSS feed: https://cryptanalys.is/rss.php https://cryptanalys.is/rss.php (which isn't viewable at the moment due to an encoding error according to http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcryptanalys.is%2Frss.php http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcry... ) Maybe a "retro" version of the homepage would be to your liking? Like this: http://retro.hackaday.com/ http://retro.hackaday.com/ The site launched just a few days ago. I've been splitting my time the last few days between buying up marketing spaces and quickly skimming the crpyto/security world so the quality and depth of the articles certainly need some work, I agree.

p4bl0 13y ago

> what's your problem with bitcoin? It doesn't interest me. For various reasons which mainly includes political ones. > maybe you just have to accept that a lot of the HN and crypto audience is interested in bitcoin. I entirely accept that (however I'd remove "and crypto" from your sentence to make it closer to the truth). I'm not complaining that people on HN post a lot of Bitcoin related content. It's a community website, not my own. If Bitcoin interest people in the community then it should be there. There is too much Bitcoin for my taste, but I just don't click on it and look for the other stuff that actually are of interest to me. And there are still a lot of interesting discussions on HN that are not about Bitcoin.

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
I'll try to add some more non-bitcoin related stuff right now!