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2024 Jul 17
Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"
2024 Jun 30
Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times
2024 May 29
Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum
2024 May 23
How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?
2024 May 17
The near and mid-term future of improving the Ethereum network's permissionlessness and decentralization
2024 May 09
Multidimensional gas pricing
2024 Mar 29
What else could memecoins be?
2024 Mar 28
Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
2024 Feb 09
Ask security questions
2024 Jan 30
The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications
2023 Dec 28
Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
2023 Nov 14
Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma
2023 Oct 31
Different types of layer 2s
2023 Sep 30
Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
2023 Jul 24
What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?
2023 Jun 20
Deeper dive on cross-L2 reading for wallets and other use cases
2023 Jun 09
The Three Transitions
2023 May 21
Don't overload Ethereum's consensus
2023 Mar 31
How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?
2023 Feb 28
Some personal user experiences
2023 Jan 20
An incomplete guide to stealth addresses
2022 Dec 06
Updating my blog: a quick GPT chatbot coding experiment
2022 Dec 05
What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
2022 Nov 19
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
2022 Sep 20
DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
2022 Sep 09
Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
2022 Aug 04
The different types of ZK-EVMs
2022 Jun 15
Some ways to use ZK-SNARKs for privacy
2022 Jun 12
Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
2022 May 25
Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins
2022 Apr 01
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
2022 Mar 29
The roads not taken
2022 Mar 14
How do trusted setups work?
2022 Feb 28
Encapsulated vs systemic complexity in protocol design
2022 Jan 26
Soulbound
2021 Dec 06
Endgame
2021 Nov 16
Review of Optimism retro funding round 1
2021 Oct 31
Crypto Cities
2021 Sep 26
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
2021 Aug 16
Moving beyond coin voting governance
2021 May 25
Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people
2021 May 23
The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
2021 Apr 07
Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties
2021 Mar 23
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
2021 Jan 11
Why we need wide adoption of social recovery wallets
2021 Jan 05
An Incomplete Guide to Rollups
2020 Nov 06
Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)
2020 Aug 17
A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
2019 Dec 26
Base Layers And Functionality Escape Velocity
2019 Nov 22
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
2019 Aug 28
The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols
2019 Jun 12
Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding
2018 Dec 05
A CBC Casper Tutorial
2018 Aug 26
Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
2018 Aug 07
A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus
2017 Dec 31
Proof of Stake FAQ
2017 Dec 31
Sharding FAQ
2017 Dec 14
A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
2017 Oct 17
On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
2017 Sep 14
A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
2017 Jul 27
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
2017 Jul 16
The Triangle of Harm
2017 Jun 22
On Path Independence
2017 Jun 09
Analyzing Token Sale Models
2017 May 08
Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
2017 Mar 14
Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion
2016 Dec 29
[Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy