Corpus

My writing and contributions, gathered in one place. One person, one archive — the outlets vary, the trail is here.

The campaign — Keeping the lights on

• The Operators’ Charter
• Cypherpunk, my arse

Essays — Monero & crypto

• We decentralized the machines, not the power
• Who pays whom in ‘decentralized’ networks
• Why Monero pays its miners forever, but never its nodes
• Monero’s real Achilles’ heel isn’t the one you’d think
• Why Monero is vanishing from exchanges — and why it doesn’t matter
• No crypto will make you rich (and why I run my nodes anyway)
• Can you reward the small hands without betraying Monero?

Essays — Storage & sovereignty

• The impossible triangle of decentralized storage
• Why I self-host
• Preaching self-hosting, down to the sign-up form

Contributions elsewhere

“Node incentives vs. tail emission: is self-interest is enough a deliberate design bet, or has it been researched?” monero-project/research-lab, issue #162. A question about the asymmetry between miners (paid forever) and node operators (never paid): a deliberate design choice, or an assumption inherited from Bitcoin and never re-examined? The discussion drew in members of the Monero Research Lab, including a project co-founder, who suggested the thread serve as a reference point on the subject. Read on GitHub →