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STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds

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Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion

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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

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A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

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A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis

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Analyzing Token Sale Models

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On Free Speech

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A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination

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Notes on Blockchain Governance

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[Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy

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Über Kollusion

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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings

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On Radical Markets

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The Triangle of Harm

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Zmowa

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A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits

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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term

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On Path Independence

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[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood

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The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols

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Fast Fourier Transforms

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A CBC Casper Tutorial

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Sharding FAQ

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[Mirror] Central Planning as Overfitting

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[Mirror] Cantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchy

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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

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Control as Liability

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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol

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On Collusion

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Na colusão

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STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

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Proof of Stake FAQ

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Situazioni di collusione

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Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems

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Updating my blog: a quick GPT chatbot coding experiment

What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me

STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds

Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion

Understanding PLONK

[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero

Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis

Analyzing Token Sale Models

STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day

On Free Speech

A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination

Notes on Blockchain Governance

[Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy

Über Kollusion

[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings

On Radical Markets

The Triangle of Harm

Zmowa

A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits

Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term

On Path Independence

[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood

The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols

Fast Fourier Transforms

A CBC Casper Tutorial

Sharding FAQ

[Mirror] Central Planning as Overfitting

[Mirror] Cantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchy

Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

Control as Liability

A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol

On Collusion

Na colusão

STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Proof of Stake FAQ

Situazioni di collusione

Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems

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