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So you can consider them part of the core infrastructure and those have higher requirements in terms of bandwidth and speed/capacity of storage but also CPU. But still a mini PC is fine. 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Most of those chains are in fact EVM based (so outside of Bitcoin, XRP or Solana). The people in and around the Ethereum Foundation are solving very interesting problems but nobody talk about it on HN. For example I believe they are at the forefront of the use zero-knowledge proofs. Just dig into [0]. Is the Ethereum F", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"}, {"id": 762643953, "item_id": 47665247, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665247", "by": "sunshine-o", "date": "2026-04-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ethereum has a hard but clear path (pretty much full rewrite) with a roadmap [0]", "excerpt": "Yep, I was looking into it and from what I understand: - There is a dark outlook on Bitcoin as the community and devs can't seem to coordinate. Especially on what to do with the \"Satoshi coins\" - Ethereum has a hard but clear path (pretty much full rewrite) with a roadmap [0] - The highly optimized \"fast chains\" (Solana & co) are in a lot of trouble too. 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Because of science fiction like the short story Lena[1] and the video game Soma[2], I've come to the realization that whole brain emulation[3] is unbelievably dangerous; unless you control the stack down to the hardware, it's basically a one way ticket to eternal slavery. In Rajaniemi's books[4], uploaded digital minds are called \"gogols\", a reference to Gogol's Dead Souls book, and are tre", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Fall of the Theorem Economy"}, {"id": 778326976, "item_id": 48645436, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645436", "by": "sunshine-o", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The people in and around the Ethereum Foundation are solving very interesting problems", "excerpt": "You are forgetting Ethereum which is the defacto main standard and driver in the \"crypto industry\". Most of those chains are in fact EVM based (so outside of Bitcoin, XRP or Solana). 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(January 2026)"}, {"id": 745234704, "item_id": 46577169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577169", "by": "PrimalOrigins", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Ethereum forked after the DAO hack", "excerpt": "I spent months on this because I got frustrated with \"code is law\" being a lie. Every blockchain claims immutability until something goes wrong. Then they fork. - Ethereum forked after the DAO hack - Bitcoin forks constantly over ideology - Smart contracts get \"upgraded\" So I asked: what if you literally couldn't change the rules? Not \"we promise not to\" \u2014 actually physically impossible. 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