Explores the challenges of maintaining privacy when bridging assets between public and private cryptocurrency blockchains, highlighting metadata risks.
Analyzes the opposing market forces of token buybacks and unlocks, explaining their impact on cryptocurrency prices and the concept of an equilibrium price.
Explores prime clusters, their mathematical definition, and their use as proof-of-work in the Riecoin cryptocurrency.
Explores prime number chains like Cunningham chains and their application in the Primecoin cryptocurrency's proof-of-work system.
A simple, intuitive explanation of public key cryptography using analogies and a number game to explain how to prove a secret without revealing it.
Explores how public blockchains are disrupting traditional financial intermediation, enabling direct access to financial rails and forcing incumbents to react.
A guide to discovering niche MEV strategies using a custom Rust CLI tool and Revm for blockchain data analysis.
A critique of Jack Dorsey's keynote at FOSDEM, arguing billionaires and their harmful ventures are unwelcome in the free software community.
A review of 2024's crypto market, covering Bitcoin's surge, ETF approvals, institutional adoption, and regulatory trends.
A developer critiques Base, a Coinbase crypto platform, for its technical jargon and praises 'Hello Base' for its beginner-friendly tutorial approach.
Introduces the OIL (Owner, Instrument, Ledger) schema, a clear method for diagramming payment flows in fintech, crypto, and traditional finance.
Analysis of ECB economists' critique that Bitcoin is worthless, speculative, and a threat to democracy, with counterarguments from a Bitcoin-supportive perspective.
An introduction to Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), a token-incentivized model for crowdsourcing physical resources like data, storage, and compute.
The author reflects on coining the term 'Central Bank Digital Currency' and critiques a controversial hypothetical use case involving 'digital meat rations'.
A developer shares their technical journey and lessons learned from building an unprofitable MEV (Maximum Extractable Value) crypto bot using Rust for Ethereum.
A developer's experience attending the ETHWarsaw 2024 blockchain conference and Warsaw Blockchain Week, covering talks, networking, and web3 gaming.
Analysis of a livestream where an indie founder builds a blockchain game on the Ethereum Base ecosystem, covering Solidity and smart contracts.
The SEC has approved eight spot Ethereum ETFs, expanding institutional access to Ether and marking a major development in cryptocurrency regulation.
Explores the rise of gold-backed stablecoins like Tether Gold and HSBC Gold Token, analyzing their advantages over traditional gold investments.
A CTO's experiment integrating AI with blockchain to create 'purpose bound money', challenging the idea that the two technologies are incompatible.
