"Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and we're going to write it." — The Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993 | Continue reading
An introduction to decentralized finance. Covers stablecoins, composability, decentralized lending, dexes, and identity. | Continue reading
A free course on cryptocurrencies for developers. Covers history, cryptographic foundations, networking, consensus, game theory, Bitcoin, Ethereum. | Continue reading
In 2019, we saw an explosion of activity in zero-knowledge proofs. This brief review for cryptographers surveys the field. | Continue reading
Crypto in the 2020s: scalable and private blockchains, barbell adoption, crypto as a core part of tech, and adoption by institutions and governments. | Continue reading
When building mechanisms that decide high-stakes outcomes, it’s important for those mechanisms to be credibly neutral. | Continue reading
Tech is internationalist, capitalist, decentralized, hyperdeflationary, networked, encrypted, digital, volatile, and ambitious. So is Bitcoin. | Continue reading
Smart people just don’t want to hear about the religion of crypto anymore. They want to see the reality of what it can do. And that will take time. | Continue reading