Series → #Origin Stories
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Nuclear reactors taught me to ship software
Watchstanding, casualty drills, and pre-task briefs map onto code review, on-call, and disaster recovery more cleanly than any management book I have ever read.
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What running a Bitcoin mine taught me about cloud margins
A short stint at Foundry Digital running ASIC fleets, immersion vs. air, the depreciation curve, and the brutal arithmetic of difficulty adjustments — and why I never stopped thinking like an operator after I went back to writing software.
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m0n3y: Naming a Dream
The docs site that came before the code. Looking back at the m0n3y-web init commit and the voting proposal that was supposed to fix DAO whales.
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TW-TVV: Why Token-Quantity Voting Is Broken, and the Math I Tried to Fix It With
A full walk-through of the Time-Weighted Tiered Value Voting proposal I drafted for $M0N3Y in 2025. Five tiers, time multipliers, log-scaled volume, and why every variable in the formula is a knob fighting a different attack.
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Rebranding to m0n3y and Writing Crypto Docs Like You're 10
The DAXSO → M0N3Y rebrand commit, the burn-to-earn explainer for degens, and an ELI10 walk-through of zk-shielded notes that does not mention the word "circuit" once.
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ZK-FHIR: A Medical Demo That Doesn’t Leak Patients
Building a RISC Zero zkVM gateway for FHIR-shaped medical records — proofs over private patient data, zero-knowledge insurance claims, and HIV/STI compartmentalization.
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ZeraSwap: An AMM for Compressed Tokens
Initial commit of the first compressed-token AMM on Solana — Anchor program, x*y=k math, SOL/cToken pairs, and the cyberpunk launchpad UI that grew up around it.
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Five Commits to Get an OG Image Out of a Cloudflare Worker
A 24-minute slog where I got dynamic OG PNG generation to work on Cloudflare Pages Functions. The bug is WebAssembly. The fix is a build-time WASM import.
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Prediction Markets, LP Locks, and an Admin Page That Doesn’t Suck
How I bolted CPMM prediction markets onto ZeraSwap, locked LP for graduated tokens, and built a 5-tab admin panel before the first malicious actor showed up.
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Stuck Sell, Post-Graduation: Fixing a Trapped-Funds Bug Without a Redeploy
A graduated launchpad token left users unable to sell. Fix shipped without redeploying the program: a frontend conversion path that withdraws SPL, compresses, then sells through the AMM.