Aug 03 Crypto's Kryptonite: Complexity Thoughts on navigating the wider crypto ecosystem and evaluating risks of new projects. Aug 3, 2022 5 min read
Jun 11 Has Bitcoin Ever Hard Forked? Numerous changes have been made to Bitcoin over the years; should any of them be considered hard forks? Jun 11, 2022 9 min read
May 18 Ensuring Your Second Life with Bitcoin Bitcoin and cryonics are both revolutionary technologies - but are they also complementary? May 18, 2022 12 min read
Apr 28 Why Twitter is a Musk-Have A techno-optimist's speculation on how Twitter fits into Elon Musk's portfolio of companies. Apr 28, 2022 12 min read
Apr 24 The Hunt for the Best Gigabit Home Network VPN VPN technology is improving, but how hard is it to actually implement? Apr 24, 2022 9 min read
Apr 02 How to Back Up a Seed Phrase There are a million ways to back up a seed phrase. Nearly all of them have flaws. Apr 2, 2022 14 min read
Mar 19 Running Bitcoin Core v0.7 and Earlier An exploration into eccentricities of trying to sync extremely old versions of Bitcoin Core. Mar 19, 2022 5 min read
Mar 16 Building Bitcoin Core v0.7 and Earlier A guide for how to compile binaries for very old Bitcoin Core versions that are no longer available to download. Mar 16, 2022 4 min read
Mar 12 On BSV Scalability BSV's blockchain is now over 3 terabytes - have they finally solved on-chain scaling challenges? Mar 12, 2022 12 min read
Mar 05 Bitcoin Core Performance Evolution A historical analysis of full validation node sync performance across 9 years of releases. Mar 5, 2022 6 min read