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Andreas Antonopoulos - 51% Bitcoin Attack
Rodolfo Díaz · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2021–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 22 other explainer videos tagged Cryptography, the mean is 3.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 3.6 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 2 minutes 16 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2015-04-25.
- Channel / speaker
- Rodolfo Díaz
- Verified runtime
- 2m 16s
- YouTube upload date
- 2015-04-25
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Cryptography. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andreas Antonopoulos - 51% Bitcoin AttackCurrent video | 3 | 3 | 50% | — | 2m 16s | 2015-04-25 |
| But how does bitcoin actually work?explainer · 3Blue1Brown | 15 | 11 | 89% | No recorded overlap | 25m 16s | 2017-07-07 |
| Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Ideaexplainer · Tom Scott | 11 | 11 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 12m 1s | 2019-12-09 |
| Diffie-Hellman Key Exchangeexplainer · Art of the Problem | 9 | 8 | 82% | No recorded overlap | 8m 38s | 2012-07-31 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Bitcoin Block 840000”. Its short rationale: Argument that a 51% attack would not matter.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “A systematic critique of Bitcoin's value proposition”. Its short rationale: Antonopoulos on government attacking Bitcoin.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Are blockchains decentralized?”. Its short rationale: Short analysis of 51% attack cost.