Either SARS-CoV-2 evolved from BANAL + a PRRA insertion, or it was engineeredDebate about covid’s origin and lab leak tends to dissolve into a jumble of more or less fuzzy theories: Huanan market civets, and DEFUSE…Jun 9, 2022Jun 9, 2022
USM “minimalist decentralized stablecoin” part 4: fee math decisionsUSM has now had a testnet release, a security audit, and a 1-month “baby USM” (v0.1) trial mainnet release. We’re nearing the full mainnet…Jan 29, 2021Jan 29, 2021
A cheesy analogy for people who find USM confusingImagine we build a computer program that you can email Etsy stock shares, and it will email you back “UST” tokens worth $1:Dec 4, 2020Dec 4, 2020
USM “minimalist stablecoin” part 3: uh this is happening guysThis is a further update on the USM “minimalist decentralized stablecoin” I proposed in part 1 and updated in part 2. The short of it is…Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020
USM: what type of oracle, and what admin powers if any?This is a writeup of some analysis I’ve had in the back of my mind about two broad, important questions in USM’s design:Nov 26, 2020Nov 26, 2020
USM “minimalist stablecoin” part 2: protecting against price exploitsThis is an update on the USM “minimalist stablecoin” proposal I sketched in part 1 (read that first), adding a couple of features for…Aug 16, 20201Aug 16, 20201
“Drift correction” and the ASERT DAAThis is just a note with my personal takes on some topics that have come up in the Bitcoin Cash community’s recent difficulty adjustment…Jul 28, 2020Jul 28, 2020
What’s the simplest possible decentralized stablecoin?I sketch a system attempting to answer this question, based on a minimalist set of four operations.Jul 10, 20203Jul 10, 20203
Published inCoinmonksA Simplified Look at Ethereum’s CasperThere are multiple versions of Casper, the documentation is scattered and constantly evolving, it’s now being genetically spliced with…Sep 17, 20183Sep 17, 20183
Notes on Pfeffer’s “An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets”These are some notes on John Pfeffer’s popular Dec 2017 paper, An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets (Medium summary). I have…Mar 22, 20181Mar 22, 20181