Research
Research
Position papers, drafts and field notes, offered for community evaluation, feedback, or complete and utter indiffernce.
Bitcoin as a Distributed Cryptographic Canary for Empirical SHA-256 Integrity
A position paper interpreting a permissionless proof-of-work blockchain as a passive empirical monitor for deployed SHA-256 integrity.
Nakamoto Research
Personal notes on the early technology behind Bitcoin and the persona who introduced it: the whitepaper, source and binaries, network, language corpus and the people around it.