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Anyone can now afford to audit the code they depend on. That’s the easy part — and it’s not where the shortage is anymore. For five years, a Coldcard hardware wallet could generate a private key that a stranger could guess. The bug was mundane. A March 2021 firmware release set a build flag called … Read moreThe Bottleneck Moved: Open Source Security After Cheap Bug-Finding
The Internet has become one of the most important pieces of modern infrastructure—but it’s also built on a surprising amount of centralized trust. Every time you connect online, you’re relying on Internet service providers to assign addresses, DNS servers to translate domain names, certificate authorities to verify identities, and registrars to determine who owns a … Read moreBuilding Networks That Don’t Need Permission: Reticulum vs. FIPS
Something special happened in the first year or so after Satoshi gave us Bitcoin, something no one expected and many thought was impossible. Try to imagine Bitcoin back then, before you could buy things with it, before there was an exchange rate, before anyone really knew what, if anything, would happen with it. Bitcoin didn’t … Read moreBitcoin Equals Freedom by Ross Ulbricht