Understanding Ether vs Gas

By Sunny Aggarwal

Educational YouTube Channels

I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching what I call “educational channels” on topics ranging from science to geopolitics to philosophy. I started off with most of the “big names” like VSauce, CGPGrey, and CrashCourse, but over the years I’ve amassed quite a collection of…

How Abandoning the Gold Standard helped the Rise of Centrally Planned Economies

In his work The Great Transformation, Polanyi writes that the Gold Standard was the single “common tenet to men of all nations and all classes, religious denominations, and social philosophy.”…

Storj Whitepaper Presentation

I just did another whitepaper presentation, this time on Storj.io. Storj is an open source project that aims to offer a completely decentralized, secure, and efficient cloud storage service removing the centralization dangers from depending on cloud storage providers such as…

Innovation through Economic States of Exception

”America is somewhere between dire straights and dead.” — Peter Thiel

Innovation across almost every American industry, which had seen steady upwards progress in the late 20th…

Go West, Young Man

People often ask me why I decided to come all the way across the country to California for college. Of course there’s the obvious answers of being close to Silicon Valley and that UC Berkeley is one of the top schools in the nations. However, for me, there was something else, a sort of…