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Perseid meteor shower, Cottonwood Canyon State Park, Oregon (© Joshua Meador/Tandem Stills + Motion)

Elephant family in Amboseli National Park, Kenya (© Ibrahim Suha Derbent/Getty Images)

This document specifies a number of algorithms for encoding or hashing an arbitrary string to a point on an elliptic curve. This

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The cost metric is a basic concept in Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO), and different applications may use different

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A website can store data on a user’s device using various storage APIs: localStorage, IndexedDB, File System, etc.

nikitonsky: Hiding more places behind the scroll? What?

So, the other day I learned that the cool lingo is coins. I’ve rummaged through the depths for a bit and came across the most plain and straightforward breakdown of the cryptocurrency ecosystem ever written. Impossible! Most everything else is like deciphering a marketing slate.

The analysis on economies of scale within peer–to–peer networks and this answer on merkle trees vs blockchains are worth the read too.