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Japanese samurai on a mission to fix the brokenness in the financial industry. Member at South Park Commons. Writer at freeCodeCamp. Follow me on Twitter.
The Three Traits of Great People I Want to Work With
January 9, 2022For the last half a year, I’ve been co-founder dating some amazing people. At the end of 2021, I made a big decision to partner with my co…
ELI5: uint256 in Solidity
October 16, 2021is perhaps the most used value type in Solidity. And yet you might not be familiar with it if you’ve been writing a high-level language like…
Want to Speak Another Language?
November 9, 2020When I was still a small kid, my parents took me to Hawaii. I don’t remember much about the trip, but there is one moment that I can vividly…
The Century of the Self
November 3, 2020The first time I watched The Century of the Self, I had to stop and think many times. I had a hard time understanding some shocking points…
Believe You Can Change
June 22, 2020Our society pressures us to fit into types. You are athletic or artistic. You are an introvert or extrovert. You are emotional or logical…
How to Be a Hero
June 22, 2020During the Holocaust, Sir Nicholas Winton arranged for trains to take children out of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and for foster families…
The Account Nonce in Ethereum Explained
January 31, 2020I know it’s confusing but there are two types of a nonce in Ethereum: the proof of work nonce that miners try to find to solve a hash puzzle…
The Easiest Way to Use Svg Files in React Native
January 5, 2020I found that the easiest way to use svg files in React Native is to paste your svg file here, convert it into a React component, and then…
How “Smart” People Think
January 3, 2020It has been puzzling me why an elite, b-school type of people don’t seem to think in a certain manner that aligns with good thinking. This…
Ethereum Gas Explained
January 3, 2020Gas is a commodity like oil. Your car needs oil to run it. By the same token, the Ethereum Virtual Machine(EVM) needs gas to run it. Gas is…
How to Have an Interesting Conversation
January 2, 2020Have you ever eavesdropped on random people at a cafe, on a subway, or at your office? If you have, let’s be honest, for the most part, you…
The Biological Revolution Is Going to Manipulate the Process of Evolution Itself
January 2, 2020I’m fascinated and shocked by what’s happening in the field of computational biology. Biologists used to think that only 2% of the gene…
Five Useful Commands Line Tools
January 2, 2020Here are some useful command-line tools that I use frequently to increase my productivity. tldr is a more concise version of a man page. bat…
The Documentary That Changed My Life
January 2, 2020Half a decade ago I watched a documentary that changed the way I see the world. Inside Job is undoubtedly one of the best films I’ve ever…
Creativity and Abundance on a Blockchain
January 2, 2020One of the important elements of blockchain technology that is not talked about enough is its permissionless nature. Underlying permission…
The Safest Way to Earn Interests With Dai
December 5, 2019The DSR in a Nutshell Multi-Collateral Dai(MCD) went live on November 18th. Now you can use both Eth and Bat as collateral. The Maker…
Build a Decentralized Lending App With Compound
December 1, 2019Introduction I remember the excitement I felt when I first heard the idea of AirBnB. People share unused space to travelers who need to have…
Build an ETH <=> ERC20 Tokens Exchange App With Uniswap
October 11, 2019Introduction Blockchain technology introduced a public ledger that everybody can use and nobody owns for the first time in the history of…
Anonymity Doesn’t Align With National Interests or Corporate Profits
July 15, 2019Panopticon by [jodieinblack](https://www.flickr.com/photos/jodieinblack/) Glenn Greenwald, the writer in the Guardian who worked closely…
Going Through the CDP Life Cycle of Multi-Collateral DAI
June 24, 2019Introduction MakerDAO released SAI as the Alpha version in December 2016, and DAI was released as a beta version in December 2017. DAI is…
Eating for the Planet Earth and All the Species
June 16, 2019Introduction Melanie Joy, the former professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, runs an interesting…
Why Is DAI Stable?
June 5, 2019source: [https://makerdao.com/en/dai](https://makerdao.com/en/dai) source: https://makerdao.com/en/dai Why Stable Coins Matter Last year, a…
Digital Signatures in a Blockchain
December 20, 2018Cryptography and Symmetric Encryption Cryptography is a core part of blockchain technology. You won’t understand how it works if you skip…
Non-Programmer’s Guide to Issue ERC20 Tokens
November 27, 2018In this post, I want to convince you that it’s incredibly easy to issue your own tokens on Ethereum. To this end, I will write a simple…
A Programmer’s Mindset For Beginners
September 14, 2018This is a list of things that I try to keep in my mind when I program. It Is Always Your Fault Computers do exactly what we tell them to do…
ICO White Papers Are Unnecessarily Long
September 12, 2018ICO white papers are unnecessarily long. Bitcoin white paper was only 9 pages. Telegram/TON’s white paper is 132 page. I’d say our natural…
How To Prevent Rich People From Gaming The DAICO System
September 5, 2018The DAICO Model I have been thinking about the healthier practices of ICOs for a while, and this January I was intrigued by DAICO model that…
What is DAICO?
June 14, 2018Since the first ICO of Ethereum on Sep 2, 2014, ICOs have been killing it as a new, democratic and open way to raise funds. For example…