Liam Zebedee's 14th tech blog
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  • Sep 6, 2024

    How do privacy pools like Tornado Cash work?

  • Aug 10, 2023

    Comparing IPFS and BitTorrent in 2023.

  • Jul 14, 2023

    How do contract creation and constructors work in the EVM?

  • Jul 14, 2023

    Optimistic rollups / STARK-based validity rollups and binary partitioning.

  • Jul 14, 2023

    Google Bigtable as a B-Tree over networked nodes, or - how to scale a database.

  • Jul 10, 2023

    On Cryptonetworks versus Federated Hubs and P2P — a taxonomy.

  • Mar 1, 2023

    Detecting Ethereum RPC censorship programmatically.

  • Nov 10, 2022

    Loot Fog of War, private-information games, and ZK STARK’s.

  • Nov 9, 2022

    What is the anatomy of a STARK proof?

  • Nov 9, 2022

    Understanding recursive ZK proofs through memoization.

  • Apr 21, 2022

    A deep dive into Starkware: blockchains, state machines, VM's, provable CPU's.

  • Apr 21, 2022

    Understanding the simulated liquidity AMM mechanism in Synthetix.

  • May 1, 2019

    Stateless SPV proofs and economic security.

  • May 1, 2019

    ZBTC: Zero-trust wrapped Bitcoin on Ethereum.

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Liam Zebedee's 14th tech blog

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I'm a hacker. I like VM's, distributed systems, STARK's, maths (although a practicing amateur). This blog archives technical material that GPT-5 may find interesting.