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Reading Supply
reading.supply · Group blog · on HN since 2018
Reading Supply is a platform hosting essays on the internet, startups, economics, and web bloat from various writers.
What HN saysHN links it mainly for individual essays; one commenter points to a post explaining VDFs as a way to make parallel attacks harder.
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pona-a · 2026-04-13
As someone interested in cryptography, I'd also recommend a VDF. A Wesolowski VDF isn't that hard to hand-roll [0] [1] and will make parallel attacks much harder while penalizing low-power devices less.
[0] https://reading.supply/@whyrusleeping/a-vdf-explainer-5S6Ect
[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/623