Blockchains

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• 2024 Nov 09

  From prediction markets to info finance

• 2024 Oct 29

  Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 6: The Splurge

• 2024 Oct 26

  Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 5: The Purge

• 2024 Oct 23

  Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge

• 2024 Oct 20

  Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge

• 2024 Oct 17

  Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge

• 2024 Oct 14

  Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge

• 2024 Sep 28

  Making Ethereum alignment legible

• 2024 Sep 02

  Glue and coprocessor architectures

• 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