Divinations of Monerokon - The supernodes are singing

Did you know that there are 14 supernodes that form the beating heart of Monero’s network? Listen closely and you will hear their tune. Can you hear it? As soon as you get your node online, they are never very far away. Look at your friends, look at the friends of your friends. You have already found a few of them! Watch! They sing sweet, and most importantly, they open their ears and listen to the songs of so many of their friends. Without tiring, time and time again, they meet new friends and let those new friends start singing, joining the chorale. ...

June 28, 2025

I used to think that the BTC security model is in trouble, I was so wrong! /s

An overview of how it works first. On BTC, miners work to create blocks using a proof of work. The miners keep each other in check so that if some tiny miner decides to produce bad blocks, the rest of the network will just ignore the rogue miner. The trouble is that when the majority of the network becomes rogue, and you can have a 51% attack. What could a 51% attack look like? ...

October 4, 2024

The killer app of crypto

The first time I heard of crypto and bitcoin was in 2016. It was all the hype in the local tech community, people were excited about it, talking about peer-to-peer payments without a bank, a new form of money, something that will change the world, etc I got curious and decided to really research the topic, understand what bitcoin is, how it works and find out if this was just another ponzi-style scam based on hype and new people buying it or if there really was something behind it. ...

August 4, 2023