Technology

• Segwit2x Bugs Explained
  • off-by-1 error would have gotten btc1 chain stuck, had it been run
• My unusual hobby
  • interactive theorem proving with Coq :)
• Finding Magic: The Gathering archetypes with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
• a16z devcon 3 notes
  • great ecosystem overview
• What's a reference in Rust?
• A tutorial-style walkthroguh of Pyramid, a Scheme-to-EVM compiler
  • curious as to why the author decided against compiling to LLL
  • looking forward to future installments (especially the Google Sheets based debugger) :)
• Type-Safe GraphQL with OCaml (part 1)
• Overview of various Ethereum client pruning and compression modes

Culture

• New Satoshi suspect
  • Elon Musk Probably Invented Bitcoin
  • Why Elon Musk invented Bitcoin ?
• All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization
• Chainalysis has some data on how many bitcoins have been lost so far
  • 4 million assuming Satoshi destroyed his private keys
• The Great Bitcoin Bull Market Of 2017
• Is Bitcoin just a bubble? on MR
• System76 to follow Purism in disabling ME
• Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future
• Application Protocols are the better investment.
  • I think this ignores the fact/view that base protocols derive a large part of their value from their level of network security (i.e. PoW infrastructure) which would suggest that horizontal monopolies are very much possible
  • overall very thought provoking

Papers

• Is Filecoin a $257M Ponzi Scheme?