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   by inersha 6y ago

   > You can just create a centralized system that does the same thing as Bitcoin and consume less power. It is that simple. You wouldn't be allowed to do this unfortunately.
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   by inersha 6y ago

   No problem at all, thank you.
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   by inersha 6y ago

   If you add the third optional argument of "enter" when running the sha256.rb script you can use your keyboard to step through. I haven't set this up for the individual animations though. ruby sha256.rb sizzzzlerz enter I didn
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   by inersha 6y ago

   I follow Tamás Görbe on Twitter and he regularly posts cool mathematical animations: https://twitter.com/TamasGorbe/status/1238448040521932801
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   by inersha 6y ago

   1) Thank you. 2) It's certainly a combination I never anticipated. 3) I look forward to the book.
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   by inersha 6y ago

   Thank you for being so kind, it means a lot.
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   by inersha 6y ago

   My pleasure, thank you.
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   by inersha 6y ago

   I have thought about it. Any particularly interesting ones?
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   by inersha 6y ago

   I wanted to understand how SHA-256 works, so I made a terminal animation that shows the bitwise operations at each step. I wrote a text guide in the README.md to explain what's going on. I think my technical terminology is okay. I&#x27
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    Show HN: SHA-256 Animation(github.com)

    1053 points by inersha 6y ago|102 comments
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    Show HN: Get a list of every unspent Bitcoin in the blockchain(github.com)

    1 points by inersha 7y ago|0 comments
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    by inersha 8y ago

    A friend of mine stretched her ears and went to Dr. Evil to have them sown up. He did a great job, and it cost £200. This is not available on the NHS and probably would have cost thousands (for someone with less experience in the same proce
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    Show HN: How to import the entire Bitcoin blockchain in to Neo4j(learnmeabitcoin.com)

    3 points by inersha 8y ago|0 comments
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    by inersha 8y ago

    I've been using Neo4j to store the bitcoin blockchain. Bitcoin transactions have a graph structure, and so by storing the entire blockchain in a graph database you can easily query for connections between different bitcoin addresses. I
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    by inersha 8y ago

    I like the analogy in your final paragraph. I see hacker news as the nurse in the classroom setting.
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    by inersha 8y ago

    I suppose there may be a distinction between asking "how does anaesthesia work?" and "should I perform surgery at home?".
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    by inersha 8y ago

    I never understand why people try to separate blockchain and bitcoin.
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    by inersha 8y ago

    Sure, there have been multiple bubbles. Always good to see the tulip posters keeping at it.
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    by inersha 8y ago

    When does it stop being a fad?
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    by inersha 8y ago

    Classic hacker news. Ask for technical advice, get called incompetent.
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    Show HN: A visualisation of the live Bitcoin transaction rate(bitcoinrain.io)

    5 points by inersha 8y ago|1 comments
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    How to create a Bitcoin transaction from scratch(youtube.com)

    3 points by inersha 9y ago|0 comments
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    by inersha 9y ago

    Looks cool, thanks.
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    Ask HN: Do you play games between programming?

    2 points by inersha 9y ago|2 comments
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    by inersha 9y ago

    I'm making a website for beginners: http://learnmeabitcoin.com/ I'm trying to make it as easy as possible to understand (and work with) bitcoin data.