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2013 Bitcoin and Altcoin Hacks [Part 5]
This article is part of our complete guide to Bitcoin and altcoin hacks. Here we cover Bitcoin and altcoin security incidents from the year 2013. Dogewallet Such hack. Many coin. Very disappear. Christmas of 2013 wasn’t a good time for Dogecoin investors. The recently created half-joke-half-serious cryptocurrency had just suffered its first major heist. Although […]
A program to send and handle every UNIX signal
While playing around with errno I decided to test what happens if I sent (and handled) every possible UNIX signal to a program. Running this as a non-root user, I figured I couldn’t break anything if I tried – so I went ahead and ran it. Let’s see: I skipped sending SIGKILL (9) for obvious […]
ELI5 Cryptocurrency airdrops and giveaways : Why do cryptos get distributed for free?
There’s no such a thing as free lunch. The famous quote, which probably originated at a saloon in the middle of nowhere, raises a valid question about cryptocurrency airdrops and giveaways. You log into Twitter and, if you follow some of the most popular accounts, then you’ve probably seen something like this: $30 #Bitcoin giveaway […]
Opinion: Decentralized blockchains can only survive having a valuable token, like Bitcoin, attached to them [Feb 2018]
We’ve heard this time and again, especially from folks in the financial sector: “blockchain is here to stay, Bitcoin not so much”. Is this really so? We disagree, and in this article we discuss the origins of Bitcoin and how the problem it solved only makes sense when there’s a reward for participants to join […]