2025-04-14
Making Sense of Blockchain Execution and Transaction Order
This section introduces core blockchain concepts—append-only logs, virtual machine state, and curried transaction functions—to explain how smart contract systems model, track, and secure state changes. It highlights differences in finality...
How Blockchain Defines ‘Truth’
This section explores how blockchain systems define and compute "ground truth"—the current state—using transaction order finality. It contrasts how different systems (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum, rollups) handle state representation, emphasizing the...
What Happens After You Hit ‘Send’ on Blockchain
This paper breaks down how blockchain systems achieve different levels of finality—from simple transaction logging to full irreversibility—using virtual machines, consensus rules, and governance mechanisms to handle security and failure...
Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It
As American parents give their kids growth hormones to make them taller, some research suggests that taking medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be having the opposite effect....
Don't delete that mysterious 'inetpub' Windows folder, says Microsoft, as it's supposedly important for system security
Now sit down and eat your dinner, and stop touching things.
If you thought USB naming was nonsense, allow this professional furry engineer to explain the total nightmare that is the underlying hardware complexity of USB-C
Oh, and it's all Apple's fault. Well, possibly...
Warner Bros suits confirm A Minecraft Movie will be getting a sequel: 'The ink might not be dry… but imminently'
"It was a complete win for everyone involved."
The U.S. Marines Now Have a New Drone Attack Team
U.S. Marine Corps Stands Up First-Ever Drone Attack Team: The team hopes to apply lessons learned from the war in Ukraine to hone their drone abilities by entering into inter-service...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: This Detective Game Helps Beginners Master SQL and Database Logic (4/14/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 14, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Human Genome Project...
Unequal Rights
Heather Cox Richardson on where we are right now in terms of what type of government we currently have: Here’s the thing: Once you give up the idea that we...
Inside the System That Optimizes Cross-Border Digital Currency Trading
This section details a multi-layer blockchain system where a Layer-2 rollup manages CBDC integration and routing, while Layer-3s run competing AMMs. The architecture uses EVM, ensures compliance with KYC and...
This Study Breaks Down the True Costs of CBDC Exchange
This study shows that a multi-AMM setup on Layer-2 blockchains reduces total costs of CBDC swaps—fees and price impact—compared to Project Mariana’s single-AMM model.
What Layer-2 Rollups Mean for CBDC Trading
This section explains how Layer-2 rollups reduce costs and improve scalability for blockchain networks, and examines Project Mariana’s L1 AMM model for CBDC exchange.
A New Architecture for Cross-Border CBDC Trading
This paper proposes a multi-layer blockchain system using Layer-2 and competing Layer-3 AMMs to enable cheaper, scalable cross-border CBDC trading, outperforming Project Mariana in simulations.
"The only real moat that exists is consumer mindshare," says Friend.com CEO Avi Schiffmann
Avi Schiffmann is the Founder/CEO of Friend.com, the new AI necklace companion. Previously Avi dropped out of Harvard and founded InternetActivism.org, where he notably built a COVID tracker that over...
The Last Light
Published on April 14, 2025 3:41 PM GMTI don’t believe I will survive the coming catastrophe. I cannot put my hope into the future- that the things I love and...
App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead
The power of a button or in this instance, several hundred people pressing other buttons.
These are my favorite earbuds for under $100 and they're now on sale for even cheaper
I've just spent a few weeks trying these out and I can't get enough.
A Bad Peace Deal in Ukraine Will Invite Russian Aggression in Central Asia
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was never about pushing back against NATO expansion—nor indeed about any real security concerns for Russia. It was about empire. The Kremlin will...
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