ChatGPT is a great time-saver for certain tasks — can it manage to write academic-style research papers? — Introduction Hi! I’m James. I read the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2009, and thought it was pretty cool. The Great Recession overall got me very interested in Economics, and I later went on to study Economics for my undergraduate degree. I never made money off cryptocurrency, and mostly forgot about it.

I’ve been interested in NFTs for a while. They tend to get a lot of skepticism — why would anyone pay for digital ownership of an image? Buying art is one thing, and not everyone does that, but buying digital art that anyone can just download: that’s a hard sell…

Why Cash Back to Crypto makes the Venmo Credit Card worth getting — and how it could bring diversity to Cryptocurrency investing Disclaimer: The author of this blog post works for PayPal, the parent company of Venmo, but does not work directly on any Venmo products. This article DOES NOT…

My Background I started OMSCS in Spring 2019 and am wrapping up in about a week. My academic background was Economics from Cornell with minors in tech areas (Computer Science, Information Science); I started while in another (FT) grad program, I got my first job about halfway through the program so dropped…

I’ve created a Blockchain course covering crucial technical topics, including and beyond those mentioned in this article, which is available here and entirely free to take. https://chain.courses/ This article aims to provide an introduction and survey into the research-based, technical foundations of Blockchain in under 10 minutes, by providing a…

Most of us have been through this experience: finding an apartment or job where the first thing asked of us it to provide our social security number (SSN) and a copy of our passport. In some cases, we may submit them through a secure and professional looking website. Other times…

Over the past 5 years I have run ~20 events for organizations including Microsoft Philanthropies and The Tezos Foundation, during which I have been able to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on costs and to regularly increase the NPS of events. …

I’ve created a Blockchain course covering crucial technical topics, including and beyond those mentioned in this article, which is available here and entirely free to take. https://chain.courses/ Introduction: This is converted from a paper written for the University of Washington’s Global Innovation Exchange. As such, the article covers certain introductory…

Overview This design thinking study was undertaken as part of the Masters of Science in Technology Innovation program at the University of Washington’s Global Innovation Exchange. I spearheaded work on: Product design: leading brainstorming sessions and fleshing out my team’s initial solution and refinements. Creating prototypes: designed and created a paper…