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Bitcoin forensics: How crypto became law enforcement's tool - Boing Boing

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:38:34 +0000

In 2011, Wired reporter Andy Greenberg thought Bitcoin could keep users completely anonymous. But at the 2025 Bitwarden Open Source Security Summit, he said, "I slowly realized I was totally wrong about Bitcoin. It was actually the opposite of untraceable."

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Coin-cussion, Get ahead by using your head

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 04:35:37 +0000

It's well known that we use only 10% of our brains potential. Your body consumed calories to maintain that wasted 90%. What if there was a way to turn that excess into something more fiscally valuable? Coin-cussion is here to disrupt your neural network and let you cash in!

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Coin-cussion, Get ahead by using your head

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 04:35:37 +0000

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Ken Shirriff's blog: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:47:16 +0000

I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But performing the algorithm manually is a good way to understand exactly how it works.

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