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Re:Cryptanalys.is – Hacker News for crypto, security, and pr... by GigabyteCoin on Saturday March 08, 2014 @05:43PM (#7366680)
Creator, here! I agree, it's a little Bitcoin heavy at the moment... but you have to admit the cryptography sphere has been dominated by the recent Satoshi Nakamoto debacle, and it was only launched a few days ago.

My apologies for pre-populating the site with some articles and upvotes. I read that's how reddit got started so I figured I would give it a try.

I first submit Cryptanalys.is to HN a few days ago with just 8 posts from myself and no extra upvotes, and it didn't get a single pageview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368

So yes most of the stories and karma values on there are not submit by real people... yet. Here's to hoping.

If you have any ideas on sources for better/more-interesting information I would love to hear them.

I appreciate your taking a look at the website.

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Re:Cryptanalys.is – Hacker News for crypto, security, and pr... by p4bl0 on Sunday March 09, 2014 @03:36AM (#7367814)
On thing is true: the site only begins and users can make it whatever they want. However, since you start by giving more karma to people in the Bitcoin community, you already drive the website to focus heavily on Bitcoin (also, look at the "library" page https://cryptanalys.is/library.php it is only Bitcoin related). Which is entirely okay! There are many people interested by that (and if it could relieve HN from the contant Bitcoin noise that would be awesome). You even say so in your FAQ: "Fellow Redditors and HNers may think of us as the cryptocurrency subreddit of Hacker News". That is a valid choice, and I think you should present your site like this rather than "Hacker News for crypto, security, and privacy".

> you have to admit the cryptography sphere has been dominated by the recent Satoshi Nakamoto debacle

No, I don't agree. I'm doing a PhD in the field of crypto, follow multiple mailing lists related to my field, watch for the new papers arriving on the IACR ePrint [1], follow many blogs and subreddits… and I can assure you the real crypto sphere don't give a damn about "the recent Satoshi Nakamoto debacle". Bitcoin enthusiasts do, however.

[1] http://eprint.iacr.org/ (btw, this is a very good source of security related original content).

PS: in your "what is this" at the top of the page you are not consistent with "r/subreddit" and "/r/subreddit" (leading '/'), you should fix that.

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Re:Cryptanalys.is – Hacker News for crypto, security, and pr... by GigabyteCoin on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:43AM (#7397027)
Cheers p4bl0, I appreciate your comments very much.

You're right, the site is heavily targeted towards cryptocurrencies, but my goal is to keep it filled with more of the high level talk surrounding cryptocurrencies. The articles about the search for Satoshi were a poor choice to list on the frontpage, I agree. Consdering there was next to no evidence in any of them.

I have just made a note to look for more information on http://eprint.iacr.org/ daily, and the /r/funny inconsistency has been changed to r/funny.

I must admit (if it wasn't obvious from my username) that I am primarily a Bitcoin fan. I posted the resources I know best about to the library.php page because I want it to be accurate.

You can now find eprint.iacr.org and iacr.org in the library under the Cryptography heading ;) (And I must say, I found it humorous that iacr.org does not employ TLS)

Again, I really appreciate your comments. Thank you for taking the time to look through the site. I wish you the best of luck in completing your PhD.

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