Reflections on Father's Day

Written in 2018 I became a dad in an unusual circumstance. My wife’s brother died in the fall of 2016. His daughter—Asher—was almost one year old and in foster care at the time. Prior to his death, he and Asher’s mother had agreed to ask my wife and I to adopt Asher. Asher’s mother persisted in this wish after he died. Asher’s dad died at the end of August 2016. My wife and I had graduated college in May 2016, were married in June, and moved to Ghana for a company I was starting at the beginn...

Getting Started With Forge

Forge is an Ethereum development framework. You can use it to create Solidity projects, manage dependencies, run tests, and more. It is inspired by Dapp and has the important similarity that tests are written in Solidity. This is unlike other Ethereum development frameworks to date. It is written in Rust and is very fast. This is a beginners guide. I will go over how to create a project, manage dependencies, and write tests. The intended audience is someone familiar with Solidity who wants to...

The Burn

SummaryIn this post, I propose an update to the Nouns DAO software. Any ETH held by the treasury in excess of total_nouns_count * trailing_N_day_median_auction_price can be burned. The goal of this change is to create a code-level incentive for the DAO to (1) spend the treasury, (2) grow the Nouns supply, and (3) increase the auction price. This change will also mitigate the “risk free value” arbitrage (detailed below). When this change is first introduced, there should be a waiting period be...