Mining Bitcoin With Pencil and Paper
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…
A Beginner’s Guide to Cyberwarfare
Simply put, cyberwarfare is the use of hacking to conduct attacks on a target’s strategic or tactical resources for the purposes of espionage or sabotage. That’s neat—but also full of buzzwords. Let’s break it down even further. THE BASICS Strategic or Tactical Resources This is a bit of military mumbo-jumbo that basically means “things that…
A Rant Against Ello’s “Simple” Design
Have you heard of Ello? It’s a new social network site which is getting a ton of buzz for its anti-Facebook Inc. stance. It promises a “Simple, beautiful & ad-free” experience. While it remains ad-free for now, whether it’s simple or beautiful is highly debatable. After all, when it comes to user experience and interface…
