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2022 Dec 05
What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
2022 Nov 19
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
2022 Oct 28
The Revenue-Evil Curve: a different way to think about prioritizing public goods funding
2022 Sep 20
DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
2022 Sep 17
What kind of layer 3s make sense?
2022 Sep 09
Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
2022 Aug 04
The different types of ZK-EVMs
2022 Jul 13
What do I think about network states?
2022 Jun 20
My 40-liter backpack travel guide
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 19
The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis
2021 Dec 06
Endgame
2021 Nov 16
Review of Optimism retro funding round 1
2021 Nov 05
Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings
2021 Oct 31
Crypto Cities
2021 Sep 26
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
2021 Aug 22
Alternatives to selling at below-market-clearing prices for achieving fairness (or community sentiment, or fun)
2021 Aug 16
Moving beyond coin voting governance
2021 Jul 29
Against overuse of the Gini coefficient
2021 Jun 18
Verkle trees
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 Apr 02
Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth
2021 Mar 23
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
2021 Feb 18
Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
2021 Jan 26
An approximate introduction to how zk-SNARKs are possible
2021 Jan 11
Why we need wide adoption of social recovery wallets
2021 Jan 05
An Incomplete Guide to Rollups
2020 Dec 28
Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
2020 Nov 08
Convex and Concave Dispositions
2020 Nov 06
Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)
2020 Oct 18
Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective
2020 Sep 11
Coordination, Good and Bad
2020 Aug 20
Trust Models
2020 Aug 17
A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
2020 Jul 22
Gitcoin Grants Round 6 Retrospective
2020 Jul 20
Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption
2020 Apr 30
Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective
2020 Mar 21
A Quick Garbled Circuits Primer
2020 Jan 28
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4
2019 Dec 26
Base Layers And Functionality Escape Velocity
2019 Dec 24
Christmas Special
2019 Dec 07
Quadratic Payments: A Primer
2019 Nov 22
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
2019 Oct 24
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3
2019 Oct 01
In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key
2019 Sep 22
Understanding PLONK
2019 Aug 28
The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols
2019 Jun 12
Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding
2019 May 12
Fast Fourier Transforms
2019 May 09
Control as Liability
2019 Apr 16
On Free Speech
2019 Apr 03
On Collusion
2019 Apr 01
[Mirror] Cantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchy
2018 Dec 05
A CBC Casper Tutorial
2018 Nov 25
[Mirror] Central Planning as Overfitting
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
2018 Jul 21
STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds
2018 Apr 20
On Radical Markets
2018 Mar 28
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
2017 Dec 31
Proof of Stake FAQ
2017 Dec 31
Sharding FAQ
2017 Dec 17
Notes on Blockchain Governance
2017 Dec 14
A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
2017 Nov 22
STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day
2017 Nov 09
STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
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
2017 Mar 11
A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination
2017 Feb 01
[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
2017 Jan 14
[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
2016 Dec 29
[Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy
2016 Dec 10
[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero