I write code, do research and think about web3
5mo
Note: this is heavily based off of Ruben from Coinmonk’s 2021 article here. I do not mean to steal credit from a very obviously smart person. However,...
9mo
Recently Bitcoin has caught a second wind of activity after the viral success of Ordinals NFTs that make use of bitcoin block space to store their me...
1y
Today in crypto there are a number of novel technologies quickly advancing and gaining public interest. ZK technology and its applications, decentrali...
Introduction A lot of chatter has circulated about base-layer censorship in the wake of the attacks on Tornado cash. If you weren’t aware, Tornado cas...
The year is 2022, and degeneracy has reached its absolute maximum. How would one explain the current state of affairs to an ancient man, or better yet...
Let’s play a game. Look at the chart below, and guess what the token in question is (pair is against USDT). Whatever you may have guessed, you’re pro...
From the coast of Canaan, a great many longships cast off towards the Western waters of the Mediterranean. Eventually, they would pass the pillars of ...
Introduction Recently there has been a wave of DNS hijacking attempts across multiple dApps and public RPC endpoints for entire blockchains. The finan...
Introduction Crypto and the dweb hold the promise of dragging governance and decision making processes out of boardrooms and out from behind closed do...
2y
Introduction I am a visual learner. Especially when it comes to data. Seeing shapes and colors helps me understand what is going on with a dataset as ...
Blockchain was built by anons. More than a decade after the infamous “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” genesis b...
Introduction The current approach to digital land is disappointingly realistic. The digital world has no obligation to abide by the nature of the phys...
Introduction Programming a smart contract is one of many distinct programming paradigms one must adapt to in order to succeed. Similarly to MVC archit...
One the apps that I built to interface with a cryptocurrency or blockchain and have since lost access to was a tool that could take any arbitrary text...
Introduction I am not a sever management professional. But I’ve managed to teach myself a few things over the years. When running nodes there’s a lot ...
Introduction Liquidity pools are a basic primitive of DeFi protocols and their respective tokens. Choosing to bootstrap initial liquidity via automate...
Introduction NFTs have thus far been valued mostly for their aesthetics. “We like the art”. Certainly original artworks, generative collections, photo...
Abstract Global operations in the context of smart contracts tend to have costs that prohibit their effectiveness. Every mutation of a variable within...
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Introduction Over the last three decades of popular internet adoption, control over key internet infrastructure has followed a trend of steadily centr...