Jun 23Technical Specification for the Unchained IndexIntroduction — Immutable data — such as that produced by blockchains — and content-addressable storage — such as IPFS — have gotten married, and they’ve had a baby called the “Unchained Index.” Immutable data and content-addressable storage are deeply connected. After all, without a suitable storage medium for immutable data, how can…Unchained Index2 min read
Feb 2forEveryChainCome Visit with Us for a While Have you ever had the desire to look at every trace of every transaction of every block on every blockchain? Yes? Well, pull up a chair. It’s a Multi-Chain World I’m sure you’re all aware of the impending multi-chain universe. You know the one. Where all sorts…Ethereum4 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Dec 14, 2021Compacting ERC20 LogsI have zero time, so I herein produce a very quick take on something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. This is more a thought experiment than anything else. Fact: Very, very, very many of the transactions on the Ethereum blockchain are simple ERC20 token transfers. So what? What If ERC20 Tokens were Native to the Chain? …Ethereum7 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Nov 22, 2021Commanding the LineMany of us live and work on the Linux command line. — I’ve been living in that neighborhood since 1986. For most of that time, the command line commanded me. But eventually, I started commanding the command line. In this article, I will share with you an example of commanding the command line. I’m going to take the command line by its…Ethereum6 min read
Oct 27, 2021Calling Smart Contracts with `chifra state --call`This is a simple document describing how to use the TrueBlocks chifra command to query a smart contract from your command line. When combined with other features of chifra it allows for a very easy way to build a history of various values on a smart contract. …Ethereum5 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Oct 10, 2021Adventures in Difficulty BombingAn exercise in predicting the future for the Arrow Glacier fork This article is an exercise in predicting the effect of EIP 4345. That EIP sets back the difficulty bomb at an as-yet-undetermined point in December of 2021. …Etheruem8 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Aug 24, 2021The Rent is Too Damn High Part IIFurther Explorations into Sending Money to Myself — This is the second article in a two-part series using TrueBlocks to explore the MetaMask Swap Router and how much it costs. Click here for part I. Yes Dear… In the previous article, I was discussing this transaction (as presented by the TrueBlocks front end in US dollars at the time of…Ethereum8 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Aug 24, 2021The Rent is Too Damn HighFees and Slippage and Such — This is the first of a two part series describing my shock at how much it cost me to swap my own money for my own money using MetaMask. This article describes how we used TrueBlocks to figure out what happened. Click here for Part II. Yes, Dear… My wife spent her…Ethereum6 min read
May 27, 2021Dynamic Traversers in TrueBlocksCustom Ethereum extraction for permissionless access to your data Ethereum nodes come to consensus on a world-wide global ledger of smart contract invocations every 14 seconds. Everyone know this. This is what we celebrate about the chain. Not only is this data world-wide and consented-to, but it is also permissionless…Blockchain6 min read
