Month: January 2025

Whoa! I still get a little buzz when my node finishes initial block download. It’s a messy, satisfying kind of buzz that tells you the ledger is local and verified. Initially I thought that running a node was only for the ultra-technical, but then I realized how much it changes your threat model and your […]

Whoa! I keep circling back to the same problem in DeFi — fragmented liquidity makes trades feel like playing three different games at once. For a long while I trusted single DEXs and price feeds, and that was fine… until it wasn’t. Initially I thought gas wars and slippage were the main killers, but then […]