Crypto stories

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology generate some of Hacker News's most polarized discussions. This archive collects technical posts about protocols, DeFi mechanics, and the engineering challenges of decentralized systems.

Whether you are skeptical or curious, the technical threads here go deeper than price speculation.

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US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion

finance.yahoo.com · 60 points · 201 comments

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites

arstechnica.com · 7 points · 1 comments

The world epidemic of sleep disorders is linked to Vitamin D deficiency (2012)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · 6 points · 0 comments

Why Is Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen So Mad?

bloomberg.com · 11 points · 2 comments

US annual budget gap hits nearly $2T, largest in 5 years

reuters.com · 16 points · 20 comments

AegisKernel – Zero-trust deterministic security runtime for AI agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Scientists vote to end leap seconds, redefining how the world keeps time

scientificamerican.com · 14 points · 2 comments

Faster Post-Quantum Cryptography with JDK Intrinsics

inside.java · 3 points · 0 comments

AI, Crypto and DEI Drove Marc Andreessen to MAGA

bloomberg.com · 13 points · 28 comments

U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

krebsonsecurity.com · 4 points · 4 comments

The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf]

cr.yp.to · 5 points · 0 comments

Stripe and Plasma co-develop a new multi-currency card experience

twitter.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases

futhark-lang.org · 11 points · 2 comments

A Chemically Defined Synthetic Cell Capable of Growth and Replication

biorxiv.org · 3 points · 0 comments

Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

zetter-zeroday.com · 15 points · 159 comments

Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM

heise.de · 15 points · 2 comments

The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

robotsinplainenglish.com · 9 points · 21 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

github.com · 19 points · 125 comments

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

words.filippo.io · 25 points · 32 comments

Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims

crypto.news · 28 points · 510 comments

Kotlin keeps up with Rust in DHH's Campfire rewrite

wecodefire.com · 12 points · 3 comments

Reducing undefined behavior in the C language

lwn.net · 19 points · 165 comments

I think we might lose public key cryptography

twitter.com · 44 points · 37 comments

Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances

cointelegraph.com · 36 points · 65 comments