Aug 30, 2022Member-onlyThreshold USD token design trade offs.Upgradability vs Immutability — Background Threshold USD is being built as a public good for the Threshold Network. Value gets captured to the Threshold DAO treasury instead of a protocol token. Threshold USD is a fork of Liquity. Liquity is a completely immutable system. Once a user has conducted a security audit of the source…Money7 min readMoney7 min read
Sep 29, 2020Member-onlyInsurance for blockchain smart contracts — using Nexus Mutual to insure using TBTCGet insurance against smart contract bugs. — Disclosure: I own KEEP tokens and have provided NXM tokens as collateral for the TBTC smart contract. Nexus Mutual provides onchain insurance against smart contract bugs. Being able to take out insurance helps to reduce the risk for 3rd parties to adopt new projects. For example: If a traditional centralised…Blockchain3 min readBlockchain3 min read
Aug 31, 2020Member-onlyCrypto Yield Farmers take note — Understanding the tBTC and Keep Network rewards mechanics.Blockchains are incentive machines — Keep Network conducted industrial staker sales in 2017 (including Andreessen Horowitz) and 2019 (led by Paradigm) “Bitcoin is the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Building a bridge that allows Bitcoin to interact with DeFi makes a lot of sense, and tBTC is a credible attempt to do exactly that.” …Keep Network7 min readKeep Network7 min read
Jun 8, 2020Member-onlyA beginners quick start guide to staking on the Keep Network testnet using DigitalOcean.Step by step instructions with screenshots. — If you are Playing for Keeps you need to run a node on testnet. This guide makes no assumptions about your experience using dapps or MetaMask. I have taken lots of screenshots along the way to make it easy to follow. Everything being equal this guide should take about one…Blockchain9 min readBlockchain9 min read
May 9, 2020Member-onlyConnecting stars with super fans. Dr Cox from Scrubs made a video for me.I decided to try out Cameo, it was great. — Every year I’m going to smile when Facebook reminds me of the awesome Cameo John McGinley did on my behalf. Cameo is a website where you can get personalised messages from your favourite celebrities. Celebrities have millions of Twitter fans, a small number of which are cashed up super fans…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Apr 30, 2020Member-onlyHow Satellites avoid collisions could have the answer to secure Contact Tracing. No need for GPS or bluetoothWifi fingerprints and secure multi party computation could provide an answer. — Ever wonder how satellites avoid each other? No spy program wants to give up the secret locations of where their satellites will be. The NSA will be real mad if you crash your commercial satellite into theirs. Countries manage to keep their satellites from colliding with maths. The short answer…Privacy4 min readPrivacy4 min read
Apr 27, 2020Member-onlySecure Multi Party Computation (sMPC) explained visuallyKeep Network — Technology Explainer — Disclaimer: The author intends to run a Keep node after the network launches on the 27th April 2020. Keep Network is an Ethereum smart contract that provides a sMPC Oracle for private data. I had to read the whitepaper 10 times and ask a lot of questions of the team…Blockchain10 min readBlockchain10 min read
Feb 7, 2020Member-onlyGet facts on the Coronavirus from Wuhan, before getting anxious.Cut through the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that the media is feeding you about 2019-nCoV. — Do you ever feel like you’re at the start of a post apocalyptic movie? You know, the bit where you yell at the main character to get out of the city while they still can. I’m right there with you. On the 23rd of January I read about Wuhan shutting…China11 min readChina11 min read
Jan 1, 2020Member-only9 predictions for 2020–2029The world as we know it is about to change fast. — I like to think about the future a lot, so this year I decided to make some predictions. My predictions for this decade Federated Learning will unlock value from previously inaccessible sensitive data. Deepfakes will impact democracy and bring about a need for publisher certified content. Nationalism will rise around the world, the internet will…Tech11 min readTech11 min read
Published in Two Hands·Oct 22, 2019Are you sure that lobster you’re eating is real?Connecting fishers with restaurants to fight food fraud. — Introduction Traditional supply chains are full of middlemen. Food fraud is a problem because there is no transparency into who did what. Blockchain can solve this. Two Hands is focused on people and trust. Colin Milstead has been fishing since he was a young boy, he takes great pride in the…Blockchain6 min readBlockchain6 min read
