about 1 month ago
- Stripe just announced Tempo, a “L1 blockchain” for “stablecoin payments”. What does any of this mean? In 2021, I was interested enough in blockchain to write a…
4 months ago
- The Trump Crypto Orgy of Corruption We are living in very unusual times and corrupt times. Never before has an American president been so brazen in his corruption and self-enrichment. This new phenomenon, what Senator Elizabeth Warren coined as an "orgy of corruption," is...
5 months ago
- Unnecessary and Unstable: Why Stablecoins are Bad The current financial policy debate in the US is increasingly fixated on the purported necessity of bespoke regulation for stablecoins (particularly the proposed S.394 GENIUS Act), with proponents arguing that such frameworks...
6 months ago
- How Democrats Failed on Crypto It's hard to look back at the previous US administration and not recognize the near complete regulatory failure on the crypto issue. This failure has now metastasized into a serious political machine on Capitol Hill, becoming a giant fountain of...
- Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
9 months ago
- The Case Against Crypto in 2025 In 2020, I wrote what became a widely-circulated critique of cryptocurrency and its implications for our financial system. At the time, I desperately hoped to be proven wrong. As a technologist who deeply believes in the potential of technology to...
- Financial Tokenization is a Meaningless Buzzword "Tokenization" is the financial industry's latest buzzword, echoing from crypto startups to the highest echelons of Wall Street, including DTCC and BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink in his annual letter, and even capturing attention at...
- Worse Than a Scam: How Crypto Fueled American Fascism The long-held assertion that cryptocurrency is merely a sophisticated grift, a casino for the credulous, now pales in comparison to the horrifying reality it has undeniably unleashed: cryptocurrency is a primary engine of...
11 months ago
- Digital Dollarization: The Looming Threat to Monetary Sovereignty As a new US administration moves toward crypto deregulation, the threat of digital dollarization through the proliferation of dollar-denominated stablecoins has become a serious concern. If stablecoins are allowed...
about 1 year ago
- TLDR; A conceptual and technical framework for resource discovery on the WWW using decentralised, open, machine-readable indexes as the building block, free of eroding quality and gatekeeping by BigSearch™ and BigPlatform™, whose goals are not quality, but revenue....
over 1 year ago
- The Dark Eschatology of Crypto Ideologues In the shadowy corners of the internet, a new breed of financial doomsayers is emerging. Enabled by a rise in populism and mixed with a potent mix of libertarian ideals and apocalyptic fervor, cryptocurrency ideologues are crafting a...
almost 2 years ago
- But in contrast to a forecasting platform, it doesn’t end there. One of the strong points of prediction markets is that we don’t have to wait until the question resolves to profit from it. If the community judgement moves in our favour, our shares become worth more, and so we...
over 2 years ago
- I participated in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It was an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aimed to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I decided to focus on protocols as...
- The Everything Bagel Problem Okay, let me try to put this into words. It’s something I’ve been wrestling with, but having trouble articulating. Over the last few years I've been on left-leaning cryptocurrency policy activism, and the experience has been a perfect exemplar of...
- Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to articulate what I do understand in a way that helps me better understand the differences — and similarities — between Twitter and Mastodon, especially when it comes to owning more of...
- Forge is an amazing library for EVM development, and its fork tests are incredibly useful. But fork tests have the limitation that you cannot add console.log statements into the forked contracts that your tests interact with. Afterall, that code is already on-chain – your tests...
almost 3 years ago
- Crypto is Financial Asbestos Cryptocurrency is financial asbestos a toxic material that's poisoning our financial system. Like its fibrous, fire-retardant namesake, crypto was initially hailed for seemingly miraculous properties: decentralization, censorship resistance,...
- It took me several seconds to parse the casual quip “But, aren’t you folks web2?”. I probed further and they continued—“Isn’t Zerodha[1] web2? Why don’t you convert it to web3?”. For the next few minutes, I struggled to explain how technologies, processes, people, regulations,...
about 3 years ago
- Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable...
over 3 years ago
- The Public Policy Case for Banning Crypto It's time to stop tiptoeing around this issue. Democratic societies should outright ban crypto. It's time for politicians to stop listening to so-called "moderate" positions on crypto because they are not moderate. Allowing crypto to...
- Using Python to send fake seed phrases to a MetaMask scam site....
- Trustless isn't all it's made out to be...
almost 4 years ago
- The Token Disconnect These days I read a lot of cross-disciplinary commentary on the crypto asset bubble, and what strikes me as particularly strange is the sheer level of disconnect between people’s lived experience of this mania. I’ve never seen anything else like this in...
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