Cryptopedia by Andrew Demcak speaks directly to the secret sides of our beings, to our shadow-selves. It is the oldest story we have, and it wants to be told. This collection comes from a place where children go missing, where monsters roam freely, and urban myths transform into realities
The (Edited) Latecomer's Guide to Crypto
A group of cryptocurrency researchers and critics annotate the irresponsible cryptocurrency puff piece that was originally published in the New York Times.
The crypto dream
Arvind Narayanan just gave a fascinating talk at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy entitled ‘What Happened to the Crypto Dream?’. That link is to the video, whi…
Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously
They partied like rock stars, searched for aliens, practiced survivalism, and sometimes showed up without shoes. Then crypto winter came—and they lost billions. Clara Molot talks to the zealots who are holding the line.
PostSecret
Discover true secrets that have never been shared. Explore the surprising stories behind the secrets.
Let’s talk about encrypted reasoning
This is a quick post I wanted to write about a hobby project I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn’t expose a particularly exciting vulnerability.…
Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
Coding the Digital Occult - Vodun Algorithms
Coding the Digital Occult: The Binary Techno Pagan and Vodun Ontologies of Cyberspace
My first impressions of web3
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...
The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto (Published 2022)
Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.
Hacker News: Honest Edition
Cryptographic Nature
I consider the many ways in which evolved information-flows are restricted and metabolic resources protected and hidden -- the thesis of living phenomena as evolutionary cryptosystems. I present the information theory of secrecy systems and discuss mechanisms acquired by evolved lineages that encrypt sensitive heritable information with random keys. I explore the idea that complexity science is a cryptographic discipline as "frozen accidents", or various forms of regularized randomness, historically encrypt adaptive dynamics.
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Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham’s The Old Days of the Khasis
Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology | HackerNoon
Page through the articles on <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> today and you will see healthy discussions over its applications and endless debates over the future price action of someone’s favorite cryptocurrency. Yet rarely among all these topics is any mention of the most fascinating notion at the heart of the movement — blockchain as a novel means<strong> to incentivize desired human behavior</strong>.
Everyone Is Lying To You For Money
The Forge present Ben McKenzie's, Everyone Is Lying to You for Money where he explores cryptocurrency in his directorial debut, moving from curiosity to exposing harsh truths. His documentary both educates and entertains while delivering a powerful critique of the crypto world.
The snake eating its own tail effect of AI agents isn’t so much a problem of training data model collapse as the collapse of the social epistemic foundations by which human sense-making can be carried out at all—and which AI agents *also* rely on for whatever facsimile of sense-making they conduct.
Ryan McGrady
The original: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-co… and the context: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-p… I hope they elaborate on the retraction, too, though I'm glad they acted quickly to take it down (and hope they put more effort into covering this terrifying story, since it's in their wheelhouse)
