NFT's, IPFS, and FOMO
What a world, my dog ran across my keyboard and I can pass it off as a title for a blog post. As if Crypto wasn’t divisive enough, NFT’s have split users into two opposite camps: “NFT’s are tulip mania, 2021 edition” and “NFT’s are a revolutionary form of immutable ownership”. It feels like an important note here that google’s SUGGESTED result when I searched “tulip mania” was “tulip mania NFT”. With the least controversial take of all time, I posit that the truth lies somewhere in-between th...
NFT's, IPFS, and FOMO
What a world, my dog ran across my keyboard and I can pass it off as a title for a blog post. As if Crypto wasn’t divisive enough, NFT’s have split users into two opposite camps: “NFT’s are tulip mania, 2021 edition” and “NFT’s are a revolutionary form of immutable ownership”. It feels like an important note here that google’s SUGGESTED result when I searched “tulip mania” was “tulip mania NFT”. With the least controversial take of all time, I posit that the truth lies somewhere in-between th...
Crypto Casinos and The "Surprising" Math Behind Gambling
If you had to make money by gambling, what game would you choose to play?I’ve been spending a bit of time thinking about this question recently, after a coin flip “double or nothing” crypto game garnered some traction and made its way across my twitter feed. How can you impose a framework to determine your best odds of making money in games where the odds are stacked against you? Is a table game with a skill component most beneficial? Would you be best served by trying your luck with a 50/50 ...
Crypto Casinos and The "Surprising" Math Behind Gambling
If you had to make money by gambling, what game would you choose to play?I’ve been spending a bit of time thinking about this question recently, after a coin flip “double or nothing” crypto game garnered some traction and made its way across my twitter feed. How can you impose a framework to determine your best odds of making money in games where the odds are stacked against you? Is a table game with a skill component most beneficial? Would you be best served by trying your luck with a 50/50 ...
Building and Deploying a Solana Smart Contract
A brief “what is Solana?”Solana is an emerging high-performance, permissionless blockchain that offers fast, cheap, and scalable transactions and supports smart contracts being built with the Rust, C++, and C programming languages. One of the primary differentiators of the Solana network is its Proof of History (PoH) verification mechanism. Without getting overly technical, the most notable improvement offered by this is parallel processing of transactions. This is part of the explanation why...
Building and Deploying a Solana Smart Contract
A brief “what is Solana?”Solana is an emerging high-performance, permissionless blockchain that offers fast, cheap, and scalable transactions and supports smart contracts being built with the Rust, C++, and C programming languages. One of the primary differentiators of the Solana network is its Proof of History (PoH) verification mechanism. Without getting overly technical, the most notable improvement offered by this is parallel processing of transactions. This is part of the explanation why...
Creating your own (ERC-20) CryptoToken
If you don’t know what to search, you will end up in the wrong place:Lots of results turn up when you google "how to create a cryptocurrency”, but very few detail what the specific mechanics are in implementation. Existing articles do a relatively good job outlining a basic ideological framework, but I want to take it one step further than vague jargon such as “make your cryptocurrency legal”, and “promote your project” (it is worth noting, this is the #1 indexed result in google). Both of th...
Creating your own (ERC-20) CryptoToken
If you don’t know what to search, you will end up in the wrong place:Lots of results turn up when you google "how to create a cryptocurrency”, but very few detail what the specific mechanics are in implementation. Existing articles do a relatively good job outlining a basic ideological framework, but I want to take it one step further than vague jargon such as “make your cryptocurrency legal”, and “promote your project” (it is worth noting, this is the #1 indexed result in google). Both of th...
