One year on at CoW DAO
This morning as the mist rises through the valley above Mestia, yet to reveal the majestic Greater Caucuses, the calendar rolls over marking my one year anniversary at CoW DAO as a "Core Contributor". It's a fitting place to mark this milestone - though it's not my permanent place of abode - it is the place where important milestones have intersected between CoW DAO and myself. It's also quite appropriate considering this village is synonymous with the literal cows that are kno...
One year on at CoW DAO
This morning as the mist rises through the valley above Mestia, yet to reveal the majestic Greater Caucuses, the calendar rolls over marking my one year anniversary at CoW DAO as a "Core Contributor". It's a fitting place to mark this milestone - though it's not my permanent place of abode - it is the place where important milestones have intersected between CoW DAO and myself. It's also quite appropriate considering this village is synonymous with the literal cows that are kno...
Storage games
What is this?This is a deep-dive on the Swarm Storage Incentives. Contained within is guidance on how to optimise performance in the "Schelling Game" - the core component of the storage incentives. The article includes details for using tools to optimise this performance. There is NO tl;dr - understanding how to optimise performance REQUIRES knowledge of some Swarm primitives. If you're in for the long haul, read on enthusiastic bee 🐝...PrimitivesStorage (Chunks)When uploading data to S...
Storage games
What is this?This is a deep-dive on the Swarm Storage Incentives. Contained within is guidance on how to optimise performance in the "Schelling Game" - the core component of the storage incentives. The article includes details for using tools to optimise this performance. There is NO tl;dr - understanding how to optimise performance REQUIRES knowledge of some Swarm primitives. If you're in for the long haul, read on enthusiastic bee 🐝...PrimitivesStorage (Chunks)When uploading data to S...
Psst, have you heard of Waku?
In 2014, it was hypothesised that a decentralised web3 could result in removing the need to have servers at all. This gave birth to the holy trinity of web3:Contracts: decentralised logicSwarm: decentralised storageWhisper: decentralised messagingFast forward to 2023 and this hypothesis is being actively tested. Contracts have evolved, separating into execution and consensus layers. Swarm spun out of Ethereum Foundation and nears feature completion with it's storage incentives. Whisper h...
Psst, have you heard of Waku?
In 2014, it was hypothesised that a decentralised web3 could result in removing the need to have servers at all. This gave birth to the holy trinity of web3:Contracts: decentralised logicSwarm: decentralised storageWhisper: decentralised messagingFast forward to 2023 and this hypothesis is being actively tested. Contracts have evolved, separating into execution and consensus layers. Swarm spun out of Ethereum Foundation and nears feature completion with it's storage incentives. Whisper h...
Building Bridges
tl;drUse OpenBZZ, a permissionless, censorship resistant dapp Hosted on Swarm to:Buy / sell BZZ on Ethereum Mainnet using DAI, USDC, or USDT*.*One-click funding of your node (buy BZZ and bridge to Gnosis Chain, receiving 0.01 XDAI in gas for your node automatically)!Top up your postage stamp, or use a link to ask fans of your content to top it up for you!☝️Save precious gas by doing any of the above in one transaction when utilising DAI or USDC (or two transactions if you insist on using USDT...
Building Bridges
tl;drUse OpenBZZ, a permissionless, censorship resistant dapp Hosted on Swarm to:Buy / sell BZZ on Ethereum Mainnet using DAI, USDC, or USDT*.*One-click funding of your node (buy BZZ and bridge to Gnosis Chain, receiving 0.01 XDAI in gas for your node automatically)!Top up your postage stamp, or use a link to ask fans of your content to top it up for you!☝️Save precious gas by doing any of the above in one transaction when utilising DAI or USDC (or two transactions if you insist on using USDT...
Bella Ciao, data silos
What is this?Blockchain sits at the fore-front of novel, technological development, with most software being written by specialists, with little attention given to the end user experience - out-of-date documentation (when the documentation actually exists!) and howtos attempting to guide people through being able to actually use the software. This issue is particularly acute for software at the bleeding edge, that software which is working towards realising the vision of the world computer. N...
Bella Ciao, data silos
What is this?Blockchain sits at the fore-front of novel, technological development, with most software being written by specialists, with little attention given to the end user experience - out-of-date documentation (when the documentation actually exists!) and howtos attempting to guide people through being able to actually use the software. This issue is particularly acute for software at the bleeding edge, that software which is working towards realising the vision of the world computer. N...
