Nov 22Impact Diary for TrueBlocksAcademic uses of TrueBlocks / Unchained Index — At TrueBlocks, we are not academics. But, in another Universe, we would have been. Like Good Spock / Bad Spock, in one existence we spend all our time writing open-source software, in another, we spend all our time writing academic articles. Which Universe Am I In? Unfortunately for me, I’m in the “Bad Spock” Universe…Ethereum2 min readEthereum2 min read
Nov 5Why We Built TrueBlocksWe built TrueBlocks because we wanted to “re-change” the world. One of us (Rush) played a vanishingly small part in “changing the world” in the early-mid 1990s during the birth of the World-Wide-Web. He wishes to make amends. What Happened? For more than 25 years, humans have lived in a world dominated…Trueblocks5 min readTrueblocks5 min read
Oct 27Chat GPT Responds to Thomas Rush’s Recent ArticleI recently posted this article for a writer’s group I’m a part of. Chat GPT begs to differ. I asked it to critique my work. Ouch. Chat GPT: Let’s critically examine the ideas presented in the article: The Prisoner’s Dilemma & Blockchain: While the Prisoner’s Dilemma is a foundational game…Blockchain2 min readBlockchain2 min read
Published inCoinmonks·Oct 26The Prisoner’s Dilemma On CrackWhy I Learned to Love the Blockchain When I first got involved in the blockchain space, I was surprised by how frequently people would end their “origin stories” by saying something like, “And I literally dropped everything I was doing, quit my job, and never looked back…” That same thing…Ethereum6 min readEthereum6 min read
Sep 28Hey ChatGPT — Define “chifra”What does that non-word word mean? — We asked Chat GPT to define the word “chifra” which is the name of the TrueBlocks command line tool. Here’s what they (what are ChatGPT’s pronouns?) told us it means. Define Chifra “Chifra” (pronounced chee-fra) is a noun, inspired by the Italian word “chiffra” which means cipher or number, and the Spanish…Chifra1 min readChifra1 min read
Aug 23TrueBlocks — Final Report for EF Grant FY22–0772Introduction — We are pleased to submit our fourth and final progress report to the Ethereum Foundation. One year ago this month, we were awarded a grant from the Ethereum Foundation to support our work on TrueBlocks. The Foundation’s financial (and non-financial) support has been invaluable. …Trueblocks9 min readTrueblocks9 min read
Aug 23Tweets About TrueBlocksA Sampling of What People Are Saying About TrueBlocks — May to August 2023 We were mentioned in an interesting article about Blockchain Data Pipelines by David Gasquez. The upshot: Many other libraries are closed source, but TrueBlocks is not. Lefteris from Rotki says, If we manage to perfect it…3 min read3 min read
Jun 10Hey ChatGPTPlease give me a document in the form of a patent application that is a complete redesign of the toenail clipper along the lines of Dyson’s redesign of the vacuum cleaner? ChatGPT [Your Name] [Your Address] [City, State, ZIP Code] [Email Address] [Phone Number] [Date] [Patent Office Name] [Patent Office Address] [City, State…Toenails5 min readToenails5 min read
Jun 3Hey ChatBotWrite a short 500-word essay on TrueBlocks in the style of Thomas Jay Rush TrueBlocks: Unveiling the Hidden Facets of Transparency In the realm of technology and finance, a revolution is unfolding — an upheaval that promises to shake the very foundations of our understanding of transparency. TrueBlocks, a groundbreaking innovation born out of the minds of visionary engineers, is at the forefront of…Trueblock3 min readTrueblock3 min read
May 5Recipe: Simple SpeedupHow to speed up rendering transaction histories with TrueBlocks Do this: chifra list --no_header trueblocks.eth | \ cut -f2,3 | tr '\t' '.' | tee tx_list That is, put the transaction identifiers into a file. And then this: chifra transactions --cache --file tx_list That is, read the transactions list from…Trueblocks2 min readTrueblocks2 min read
