Writing
Longer public pieces, imported with original wording and dates. Mostly Ethereum research from 2018–2020 — the witness research is collected on one page; the newer themes live in Notes.
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“Work Is Work” by Coda Hale
Reading notes on Coda Hale’s essay about why organizations stop scaling — queueing theory applied to teams — with points of disagreement.
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KV-Witness
A key-value block-witness proposal: compressed KV witnesses average 1.0655 MiB versus 1.1601 MiB for opcodes over 2,997,799 matched mainnet blocks.
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ReGenesis Explained
A 2020 proposal against Ethereum state growth: periodically retire active state, carry transaction witnesses, and make state explicit rather than ambient.
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Semi-Stateless Initial Sync Experiment
Witness-assisted initial sync with a million-node trie cache: the archived measurements average 0.037598 MiB per recorded witness entry after block 3,000,000.
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Stateless Ethereum: Binary Tries Experiment
Mainnet measurement of hexary versus binary trie witnesses: switching to binary tries roughly halves witness size.
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Mobile Energy Efficiency BoK
A body of knowledge for testing mobile app energy efficiency, written during the Status years.
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Ethereum node services explained
How Ethereum node RPC services actually work — a 2018 explainer that still maps the territory.