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Writing

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2025-09-20: The Biggest Coding Mistakes I Made Building Kiwi News
2025-09-14: How I made cycling fun again
2023-08-26: The Wallet-Dapp Dilemma
2023-06-26: The Kiwi News badge is a weird mix of an NFT and a Soulbound token
2023-04-28: 🔊 Traveled to Milan and now ChatGPT isn't working
2023-04-18: My deleted response to Pirate Wire's "Nuclear Disasters"
2023-04-07: Doomerism Marketing is dangerous too!
2023-02-01: The AI Crowd is Mad
2023-01-28: The Red Whale that Killed the Ocean DAO
2023-01-10: Why I don't believe in a multichain future
2022-12-30: How did I become a productive writer?
2022-12-28: How I spent two months doing nothing
2022-11-29: Subtractive Problem Solving [Talk Transcript]
2022-11-21: Why neume's only tightly-coupled dependency must be an L1 ⧉
2022-11-10: Why We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites
2022-11-01: The history of EIP-5192 - Minimal Soulbound tokens ⧉
2022-10-25: On the importance of permanence and alegality of digital art
2022-10-14: A path towards EIP upgrading ⧉
2022-09-19: EIP-4973 allows for mutually agreed, peer-to-peer minting - without implicitly determined power distributions ⧉
2022-09-15: How EIP-4973 Account-bound tokens could drive curation in the music NFT industry ⧉
2022-09-03: The best website I use is an explorer, not an editor.
2022-09-01: Effectively distributing texts online is very painful
2022-08-28: Six unpopular opinions about software standard development
2022-08-23: On Eating (with) the Rich
2022-07-27: It's Time To Think
2022-07-10: Dissenting through the Mainstream
2022-06-25: What I like about Accountants
2022-06-14: Unsolved Problems In The Neume Network ⧉
2022-05-30: What are Account-bound tokens?
2022-05-27: Ceci n'est pas une non fungible token
2022-05-05: 🔊 How Musicians Could Profit From Copyleft
2022-04-15: The terrible things I'd do with your money
2022-04-08: The JPG newsletter with my friend Tim as special guest: on Ascribe, jpegs, quadratic voting, and non-transferrable non-fungible tokens ⧉
2022-03-28: Harberger Taxes can be Crypto's Sustainable Business Model
2022-03-27: The User Experience Problems Of Quadratic Voting
2022-03-11: 🔊 Ethereum Is The Newsfeed We Deserve
2022-02-28: 🔊 Smart Contracts are the Programmable Commons
2022-02-19: Non-Skeuomorphic Harberger Properties may not be implementable as ERC721 NFTs
2022-02-17: What happened at Gitcoin's Schelling Point event?
2022-02-16: My First Day at BUIDLWEEK & ETHDENVER
2022-01-31: Against Toxic Optimism
2022-01-26: Hey Ethereum, Let's Break Solidity's Composability!
2022-01-02: Multichain sucks!
2021-12-15: Are Token Holders Slaying Moloch?
2021-12-10: Two Years of Blogging; A Reflection
2021-12-08: Illuminating the Dark Forest
2021-11-30: Observations About Today's Crypto Bull Market
2021-11-16: About the Urgency of building Web3
2021-11-03: Principles for the Metaverse
2021-10-31: Tokens considered harmful
2021-10-21: On-chain, The Emperor Wears No Clothes
2021-10-08: Is the SEC forcing Crypto Devs into Illegality and Anonymity?
2021-09-27: Is Competition For Losers?
2021-09-06: On "Technical Yield" (and Technical Debt)
2021-08-22: Intellectual Property Is Becoming Irrelevant
2021-07-21: NFTs are coming for Instagram and other social media platforms
2021-07-02: Built On Stolen Data
2021-06-18: When Scope Blows Up
2021-05-22: Existential Challenges of Dapp Builders
2021-04-22: What Is Sleepminting And Will It Ruin NFT Provenance?
2021-04-19: Saving Gas on the Ethereum Mainnet
2021-04-18: Sending COVID-19 Vaccination Appointments in Telegram
2021-02-25: How To Use Emscripten & WASM in Web Apps
2021-02-22: Ethereum isn't fun anymore
2021-01-16: How I Build JavaScript Apps In 2021
2020-12-27: WASM-STREAM, a virtual stage for digital artists
2020-12-11: Meet rugpullindex.com, an index fund for data sets
2020-12-03: I got 99 problems but SameSite cookies ain't one
2020-09-08: 🔊 web3 is a stupid idea
2020-09-01: TypeScript is weakening the JavaScript ecosystem
2020-05-02: Eventual Consistency and Jazz
2020-04-18: On Imaginary Monies
2020-04-15: Should True Cow Lovers Buy Butter?
2020-02-19: WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math
2020-01-11: JSauerteigbrot selber machen
2019-09-18: Planet A — "The Tragedy of the CO₂mmons" recap ⧉
2019-02-28: Reasons to not ship a PoA network

Talks

2024-10-31: How Kiwi News uses libp2p gossipsub (libp2p day)
2024-10-30: Wallet-Dapp dilemma (Devconnect '23)
2023-12-15: Building decentralized social networks (ZuSocial Istanbul)
2023-04-06: Kiwistand – a decentralized Hacker News
2022-11-29: Greenpill Podcast on Quadratic Voting, Harberger Taxes and Soulbound tokens
2022-11-15: PEEPanEIP #89: EIP-5192: Minimal Soulbound NFTs with Tim Daubenschütz ⧉
2022-10-19: ERC Lightning Talks (at devcon Bogota) ⧉
2022-06-22: The history of NFTS (Panel at NFTBerlin) ⧉
2020-03-27: How I Built A Synthesizer In Web Assembly! (at Webaudio Meetup Berlin) ⧉
2019-03-11: What is 0xdeface.me? ⧉
2019-03-04: Building your own crypto token (at ReDI School) ⧉
2018-01-03: What's next for BigchainDB? ⧉
2017-08-03: BigchainDB V1.0 release ⧉
2017-01-09: What is COALA IP? ⧉

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