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View More NewsStarkWare researcher Avihu Levy has tested an experimental quantum-resistant transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet, in what the company described as the first transaction of its kind. According to StarkWare, the transaction was confirmed Wednesday in Bitcoin block 964,199. Onchain data shows that it spent a 10,000-satoshi output protected by Levy’s Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB) scheme, with MARA Pool mining the block after receiving the transaction through its Slipstream service. Levy’s paper and code repository said QSB combines hash-based one-time signatures with computational searches that bind an authorization to a specific transaction. The construction is intended to prevent forgery even if a quantum…
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What follows is an excerpt from The Status of Scholarly Standards in Sociology, by Ashley T. Rubin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Professor Rubin’s report was published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Research Blind Spots and Intellectual Narrowing Sociology shows a heavy emphasis on some topics and not on others. Some topics’ popularity have declined over time…
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