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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…

3 min readJun 9, 2022

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

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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…

13 min readJan 29, 2021

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

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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:

2 min readDec 4, 2020

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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…

13 min readNov 28, 2020

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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:

5 min readNov 26, 2020

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

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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…

9 min readAug 16, 2020

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“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…

7 min readJul 28, 2020

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What’s the simplest possible decentralized stablecoin?

I sketch a system attempting to answer this question, based on a minimalist set of four operations.

14 min readJul 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…

8 min readSep 17, 2018

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A Simplified Look at Ethereum’s Casper

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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…

13 min readMar 22, 2018

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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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