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Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers
The report investigates the true decentralization of blockchains, highlighting various forms of centralization, vulnerabilities in consensus protocols, and the implications for security and immutability in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
blog.trailofbits.com
#FossilFriday I found this 1921 newspaper cutting on the Broken Hill discovery inside a copy of Keith’s Antiquity of Man that I bought in an Edinburgh bookshop https://t.co/2VqSDt6qZU
I had no idea how wild the story of human evolution was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.
Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically wiping everyone else out.
From the tribe of 1k-10k modern humans... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.com
#FossilFriday H. sapiens lineage skulls (from L) Irhoud 1, Omo Kibish 2+1, Herto 1 (all Africa), Qafzeh 6 (Israel), Mungo 3, Kow Swamp 1 (Australia) @NHM_London @NHM_Anthro https://t.co/Cea5zqXxo5
In 1908, a Neanderthal skeleton was discovered during excavations of a cave in the Bouffia Bonneval, in La Chapelle-aux-Saints in southern France. The skeleton was fairly complete – the skull, most of the spine, some ribs, the long bones of the arms and legs, and some of the hand and foot bones, were there. The skull is ‘classic’ Neanderthal, with
... See moreAlice Roberts • Ancestors
SAPIENS
sapiens-vision.comTBH1: 12 000-year-old human skeleton and projectile point shed light on demographics and mortality in Terminal Pleistocene Southeast Asia https://t.co/rRwglHbxw1
Chris Stringerx.comJust as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
#FossilFriday The fascinating fossil human record of Australia (e.g. Kow Swamp 1, pictured) could be studied by a whole new range of scientific techniques, but is now mostly reburied - Australian palaeoanthropology index (https://t.co/7SvqK2e0rI) https://t.co/HC49i7bUFv