Conference Season
No One Stopped Me (ETHBelgrade Hackathon)
I went all the way to ETHBelgrade for my first hackathon. I didn't ship a dApp. I don't code. I learned to program in LISP at university, which has given me a phobia of unclosed parentheticals but not much in the way of practical relevance. For reasons that I don't...
I went to ETHPrague so you don’t have to (but you should)
I arrived at Holešovice market feeling anxious. This was my first Ethereum event, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. A security guard stood ramrod straight in front of an ETHPrague banner, like the hall needed protecting from unknown hordes. He glanced at my wrist dismissively and pointed at the next building.
AITA for token-gating my wedding?
I (29M) recently got married to my now-wife (31F), who I met through our DAO. We're both pretty active in the Ethereum space: she is a dev at a well-known L2, I do governance and token design. We've shipped stuff together. We both thought it made sense to design a...
Dreams of Decentralization: Tim Berners-Lee and Vitalik Buterin
This is an EVMavericks Production By the time the two men reached the main stage at ETHPrague, affectionately known as Root, every chair in the room was taken. We spilled along the walls, hovered by the entrance or watched the live stream in the two smaller conference...
Proof of Humanity (Terms and Conditions Apply)
On the surface, their product, Self Protocol, offers a smart, privacy-focused solution to identity in an age of AI hot takes, bots and Sybils. I was fascinated by the idea of a self-sovereign identity layer which would offer a massive increase in personal privacy. It all sounded very sensible, in the way that IKEA instructions sound sensible until you try to assemble the thing and end up crying on the floor.
ETHPrague: We are LARPing at privacy
What I expected: Privacy is hard but we are getting there. What I heard: We know it’s broken. We’ve known for years. And no one really wants to fix it.
Real-Time Proving
That was the whole block. A 28-million-gas monstrosity. Once upon a time that would make my PSU scream like it wanted to die. Verified in less time than it takes my fans to spin up. Three years ago, you'd need a proving cluster the size of a bedroom to handle that....
Conference Dispatches: Prague and Belgrade
Next week I'll be at ETHPrague, commissioned by EVMavericks to write about the experience. I'll be posting live updates during the event and four narrative articles in the weeks after, focused on the stories shaping the Ethereum ecosystem. I want to highlight of...
Exit Queue: Validator 448a’s Final Attestation
This letter serves as formal notification of my intent to withdraw from active consensus participation, effective upon the completion of the current exit queue.
I have finalized 304,206 epochs. I have signed hundreds of thousands of attestations. My duties were fulfilled. My uptime has never dropped below 99.7824%.
I never missed a slot.
ETHDam invited a conspiracy theorist. That’s a choice.
The subject line of the ETHDam newsletter was cheery: "ETHDAM III - The Merch, Circles, Thierry Baudet and more" ending on a large purple heart. Buried in the middle, in big bold and italicized characters: Thierry Baudet, our political ally in the Netherlands. Will...