Dan Kaminsky

Dan Kaminsky's Len Sassaman tribute embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain

After Len Sassaman's death (July 3, 2011), security researcher Dan Kaminsky embedded an ASCII-art tribute into the Bitcoin blockchain, announced July 30 and revealed at Black Hat USA 2011.

Dan Kaminsky's Bitcoin security analysis

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky tries to find vulnerabilities in Bitcoin and fails. "I came up with beautiful bugs. But every time I went after the code there was a line that addressed the problem."

"The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin" — Wired's landmark feature on Bitcoin's first boom and bust

Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."