Archive 2025
Archive 2025
- Bitcoin
Aave DAO's governance showdown: The fight for brand ownership and token alignment
Aave DAO votes on moving the brand, domains and GitHub from Aave Labs to the DAO. What the proposal says, who is for it, who is against it, and the drama.
- Nuri
AI feature code review of Nuri.com
I let an AI read the Nuri Expo app code and list every feature a user sees. Bitcoin wallet, Euro card, IBAN banking, swap and the debug screens.
- Bitcoin
Code is law vs. The $9.4M rescue: The Gnosis chain hard fork
Gnosis Chain hard forked to take back $9.4M stolen in the Balancer hack. Why people fought about it, who really decided, and what comes next.
- Bitcoin
The Aave governance crisis, a post-mortem of proposal 0xbc60
Aave Labs kept the frontend swap money, the DAO wanted the brand back, and then Labs pushed the vote alone. What happened and what it means for DAOs.
- Culture
Resident Advisor Exchange, an interview with Ricardo Villalobos (2012)
Todd L. Burns talks to Ricardo Villalobos for RA Exchange 100 about vinyl, the internet, parties, ECM, modular and staying innocent
- Bitcoin
A cryptographically safe way to accept Bitcoin with zero confirmations
If the payer can't sign a second spend without you, a zero-conf Bitcoin payment is safe. Taproot co-signing, one signature per outpoint and a delayed exit.
- Bitcoin
Stateless Bitcoin multisig and divergent key derivation strategies
Two ways to derive the server co-signer key in a passkey MuSig2 Bitcoin wallet, why they give different addresses and how you can migrate.
- Science
Black Holes, the Big Bang, and the Sound of Information
A talk I had with an AI about the start of the universe, black holes and the information paradox, plus a Deep Research report on my idea.
- Science
No true beginning and infinite regression
My idea that the universe has no real start, with pi, black holes and radiation, and what Grok said about it.
- Bitcoin
Nuri wallet: A stateless MuSig2 Bitcoin wallet with decaying multisig recovery
How we designed Nuri Wallet. Passkey keys that are never stored, MuSig2, an NFC card, a 2FA server and a multisig that decays so you can always recover.
- Building
The invisible giants, 21 developers who built your internet
We praise the founders of Facebook and Google, but the internet runs on open source code from a small group of volunteers. Here are 21 of them.
- Science
Bridges between Philosophy and Physics
I asked how to explain to my girlfriend where philosophy and physics meet. From the early Greeks to Newton, Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
- Building
Building a Cross-Chain BTC-EURe Market Maker with NEAR Intents & 1-Click
How we wired up a swap stack between BTC and EURe on NEAR Intents and 1-Click, with our own AMM solver that earns a 0.3% margin.
- Bitcoin
Governing governance: Why human consensus is harder than code
Governance is finding consensus between humans, and that is harder than code. Why voting should be the last resort, and why signaling and delegation help.
- Nuri
A stateless passkey signer for Bitcoin
A Bitcoin wallet where the key is never stored. It comes from a passkey PRF, signs inside a tiny signer page and gets thrown away again.
- Nuri
Why Nuri chose a stateless passkey architecture first, and how Lightning may still fit later
We picked stateless passkey signing and submarine swaps over Spark for our first release. Here is why, and why Lightning can still come later.
- Agents and AI
Claude's Document of the Soul
Anthropic's soul document for Claude. A short TL;DR in plain words first, then the full text, from helpfulness and honesty to safety and Claude's wellbeing.
- Bitcoin
A Passkey-derived 2-of-2 Taproot wallet architecture eliminating seed phrases, mitigating supply-chain risk, and enforcing verified, non-blind signing
A Bitcoin wallet with no seed phrase. Two passkeys on two domains form a 2-of-2 MuSig Taproot key, so a hacked app alone can't steal your funds.
- Notes
Balaclava and Rug
I edited a photo of a girl in a balaclava and rug, made the balaclava gold and added big golden Bitcoin logos.
- Building
Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), the simple and the technical walkthrough
Token launches are messy and bots win. CCA spreads your bid over many blocks and everyone filled in a block pays the same price. Simple first, then the math
- Building
How Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA) work, the technical version
Uniswap's CCA sells a token over many blocks at one fair price per block and then seeds a Uniswap v4 pool. Here is the math and an example
- Building
How Email-to-Blog Publishing Works on emino.app
How an email to post@emino.app turns into a post on my blog, with DNS, TLS, Postfix, Dovecot and the importer that writes the Markdown.
- Building
How to start your own near solver: chart, technical bits (env, keys, services, deployment)
How my Near Intents solver on emino.app works, what every service does, and how you set up your own with env, keys, pm2 and Nginx.
- Notes
Yes, you can work more than 30 hours a day, if you multi-task on two devices
Yes, you can work more than 30 hours a day, if you multi-task on two devices
- Building
Complete iOS Developer Onboarding Guide for EAS Build with Expo.dev
Every step to get a new iOS developer building with EAS Build and Expo, from Apple and Expo invites to the first build on the phone. No Mac needed.
- Nuri
Nuri Wallet iOS Expo App Mermaid Chart of the Architecture
How the Nuri iOS Expo wallet encrypts Bitcoin seeds with passkeys and PRF, stores them in iCloud Keychain and recovers them, plus a Mermaid chart.
- Agents and AI
Technical Analysis: LLM-powered malware exploiting npm post-install hooks for credential exfiltration
This report details a novel malware technique leveraging Large Language Model (LLM) CLI tools to facilitate credential and wallet theft through npm…
- Building
Relativity theory as a state diagram
A Mermaid state diagram of special and general relativity, and how it connects to Newton and quantum gravity. Note to self, make it vertical.
- Building
Calendly invitation not syncing with your Google calendar? Here’s what to do
You booked a meeting with someone's Calendly link and it doesn't show up in your Google Calendar anymore? Here is how to fix it.
- Agents and AI
My New Pair Programmer is an AI: A Real-World Workflow for Building Apps
I spent a day building and fixing an iOS app with an AI coding assistant. This is the workflow I use, and where it goes wrong.
- Culture
A Conversation with deerBLN: Inking Love onto the Streets of Berlin
Christian Rothenhagen, also known as deerBLN, talks with proud about his love for Berlin, his tiles on the streets and his skateboard series
- Culture
A Conversation with Pentagonik: The Architects of a Scene
proud magazine talks with Don and Kai from Pentagonik, the Berlin netlabel and party series, about how it started, why they do it and where music goes.
- Culture
Einstein & The Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States
The Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States, in cooperation with the National Broadcasting Company, has invited a number of…
- Culture
Predictive History, A Bullshit-Fact-Check by Venice
A professor on YouTube predicted a lot of today's Israel and Iran war a year ago. I asked Venice to check his claims point by point.
- Agents and AI
The Watermarker: Probabilistic Word-Choice Biasing as a Statistical Fingerprint in LLM Outputs and AI Texts
I thought ChatGPT hides invisible characters in its answers. The real watermark is in the words, and I built a small tool to stamp my own key.
- Science
From sound waves to black holes: A journey through information theory
It started with one question. Could sound waves, or waves that turn into sound, hold the information that goes missing in black holes?
- Science
Electromagnetic Contributions to Black Hole Dynamics and a Multi-Signal Approach
Black hole mergers fit general relativity, but maybe not the whole story. Could charge and light tell us what gravitational waves can't?
- Culture
JustMusic Berlin: Closed as of 18 March 2024
On a personal note, and because I just discovered it today, I translated the German version from justmusic.de into English. Justmusic was always an…
- Agents and AI
An Interview with Emil Wagner from Ape Unit Berlin about the Future of Software Planning with AI
I talk with Emil Wagner from Ape Unit Berlin about planning software when agents write the code. Milestones and goals first, tasks later.
- Payments
Pavel Matveev, co-founder at Wirex
A summary of Pavel Matveev's talk on mentors, co-founders, careful hiring, crypto cycles and how Wirex got big in Japan.
- Nuri
Nuri.com Brand Building by LIT Creative Berlin
What LIT Creative Berlin said in their video about building the Nuri brand, from the shift away from Bitwala to the name and what they learned.
- Science
The Murchison meteorite is older than Earth! ☄️
A rock that fell on Earth in 1969 carries stardust older than our Sun and amino acids, and soon you can own a piece of it.
- Culture
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dar es Salaam in numbers. About 8 million people, the port that moves most of Tanzania's trade, traffic, floods, waste, crime and the cost of living.
- Building
2020 let’s go — investing diary during corona and my first time investing
This document was created out of a short chat with my good friend Frederik Eichelbaum who suggested I write down my thoughts around investments so that…
- Bitcoin
What time is it? It's Moscow time. Or, how much Bitcoin you can buy with 1 US dollar
Moscow time is how Bitcoiners say how many sats you get for one dollar. How it's calculated, where the name comes from and why people use it.
- Science
Bypassing Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” with the “tight cloth” Analogy and Quantum Entanglement
Maybe quantum entanglement works like a tight piece of cloth. Shake one side and the other end feels it, without a wave that has to travel.
- Building
NPM fund and continuous token bonding curves for open source funding
A token bonding curve that pays open source maintainers on every buy and sell, and also gives early supporters and token holders something back.
- Bitcoin
Sascha Hanse on Protocols and their Importance for Society
Sascha Hanse on why protocols matter in decentralized networks, who they give power to, and how to design them simple and hard to attack.
- Bitcoin
The complexities of governance among humans, in blockchain and open source software development
My talk on governance in blockchain and open source. Deciding together is hard when nobody is in charge and miners, users and devs want different things.
- Culture
How foreigners can acquire land in Zanzibar, a complete guide to 99-year leases
Foreigners can't own land in Zanzibar, but they can get a 99-year lease. Five ways to do it and the papers you need for each.
