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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 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