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Jacob Eliosoff

Jacob Eliosoff

Either SARS-CoV-2 evolved from BANAL + a PRRA insertion, or it was engineered

Debate 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, 2022

Either SARS-CoV-2 evolved from BANAL + a PRRA insertion, or it was engineered

Jun 9, 2022

Jacob Eliosoff

USM “minimalist decentralized stablecoin” part 4: fee math decisions

USM 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, 2021

USM “minimalist decentralized stablecoin” part 4: fee math decisions

Jan 29, 2021

Jacob Eliosoff

A cheesy analogy for people who find USM confusing

Imagine we build a computer program that you can email Etsy stock shares, and it will email you back “UST” tokens worth $1:

Dec 4, 2020

Dec 4, 2020

Jacob Eliosoff

USM “minimalist stablecoin” part 3: uh this is happening guys

This 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, 2020

Nov 28, 2020

Jacob Eliosoff

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, 2020

USM: what type of oracle, and what admin powers if any?

Nov 26, 2020

Jacob Eliosoff

USM “minimalist stablecoin” part 2: protecting against price exploits

This 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, 2020

USM “minimalist stablecoin” part 2: protecting against price exploits

Aug 16, 2020

Jacob Eliosoff

“Drift correction” and the ASERT DAA

This 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, 2020

Jul 28, 2020

Jacob Eliosoff

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, 2020

What’s the simplest possible decentralized stablecoin?

Jul 10, 2020

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A Simplified Look at Ethereum’s Casper

There are multiple versions of Casper, the documentation is scattered and constantly evolving, it’s now being genetically spliced with…

Sep 17, 2018

A Simplified Look at Ethereum’s Casper

Sep 17, 2018

Jacob Eliosoff

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, 2018

Mar 22, 2018

Jacob Eliosoff

Jacob Eliosoff

Cryptocurrency enthusiast with a background in software development, finance and teaching. @JaEsf on Twitter, work http://calibratedmarkets.com/.

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