A 2D world with spatially aware video conferencing — I’ve been a fully remote worker for about 8 years now. Right from the get-go, the most challenging parts of this setup have been staying connected and working transparently. Back then, our primary tools for communication were IMs and calls via Skype for Business. The biggest problem with Skype for…

SNL, DVRs, Greek food, and Tusken Raiders — It was around 2 am, and my wife was shaking me. “Are you okay? You were screaming.” I laughed. I was in the middle of a terribly exciting dream where my home was being invaded. And although I was scared, this was the moment in the dream where I was…

Quick reference card included — So, covid, huh? If you would’ve told me 3 years ago that we’d soon find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic that’s causing global lockdowns in the world’s biggest cities and that it would continue to rage because people were unwilling to take the necessary steps to beat it…

Enjoy those sweet, sweet early-day APRs — ViperSwap launched on Harmony a few months back, and it was very exciting. It was the best cryptocurrency/blockchain experience I ever had. So fast, so cheap. And the rewards — oh the rewards! A small deposit of $20 produced meaningful rewards that you could see accumulate in real-time. Shortly after…

It’s still early, and the ceiling is high — Ethereum is the most exciting project in all of cryptocurrency. Period. Its smart contracts enable blockchain to be a disruptive technology across many industries. We see it now with defi, but this is only scratching the surface, and the price of ether is poised to go up, up, up as…

It would be easy. Could it be a good idea? — Usually, when people die, one of two things happens. Either they have a will, and their assets are divided according to its instructions, or they don’t, and courts determine the rightful heir. Blockchain visionaries like Charles Hoskinson talk about how smart contracts will change the world by providing equity of…

Mainstream adoption is here, and it brings opportunity with it. — If you could go back to the 1990s and invest more heavily in the internet, would you? The dot-com boom is arguably the most famous bubble in the past several centuries. During this time, from 1995 to 2000, the Nasdaq rose 400% before crashing and losing most of its gains. …

A Sushi Swap-on-Harmony liquidity mining tutorial — Harmony Protocol recently announced $4 million in incentives coming to Sushi Swap, with rewards being split evenly between liquidity mining and Kashi lending. In both cases, $1 million in ONE tokens and $1 million in SUSHI tokens will be provided to fund the incentives. The details of Kashi rewards are…

Month-by-month tracking of my ETH2 staking investment — It’s been 4 months since I elected to stake Eth2 now, and things are going well. I couldn’t resist taking advantage of favorable rates on Uniswap, and I converted another 0.2 ETH to 0.25 GETH, which I’ll add to my tracking below. Timeline: February 17, 2021: Staked 1 ETH with…