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Decentralized* Storage in a Plywood Box

Jun 4, 2026

*Not actually decentralized. Day One of ETHPrague My home for the next four nights is a capsule in a constellation of plywood. A Prague hostel has...

New version: Can I Pay With This (A stablecoin experiment in Buenos Aires)

Feb 15, 2026

Can I Pay With This? A stablecoin experiment in Buenos Aires Finally, I bring to you the revised version of Can I Pay With This! Every chapter has...

I Went to DePIN Day and Now I Want to Monetize My Vacuum Cleaner

Dec 30, 2025

The truth: I only signed up to DePIN Day because I remembered it was something that LogrisTheBard, a technical writer whose opinion I respect, was...

Privacy is a Fire Exit

Dec 27, 2025

This is an EVMavericks production. Last week I wrote about Ameen Soleimani's talk Rug the Privacy, Not the Money, in which Soleimani told us that...

Rug the Privacy, Not the Money

Dec 17, 2025

When a Cypherpunk Says 'Permissioned' (Ameen Soleimani's presentation Privacy Without Terrorists was featured as a part of the Ethereum Privacy...

Devconnect 2025: An App for That

Dec 11, 2025

(This is an EVMavericks production.) During Devconnect 2025 in Buenos Aires, payment apps that bridge stablecoins to Argentina's peso economy were...

Can I pay with this?

Nov 15, 2025

Can I Pay With This? A stablecoin experiment in Buenos Aires Hello from Devconnect! I got here early and spent a week trying to understand how...

Living on a Vaccine Passport and a Prayer

Oct 26, 2025

I nodded to let her know that I was taking her advice seriously, while wondering how likely it was that I would be bitten by a monkey attending an Ethereum conference in Buenos Aires and also how it was that the nurse knew the English word for “monkey” but not the word for “uncooked food.”

No One Stopped Me (ETHBelgrade Hackathon)

Jun 28, 2025

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...