Don't sweat the small things on your path to Financial Independence

Don't sweat the small things on your path to Financial Independence

You’ve probably read many articles about ditching the $5 coffee, getting the right brokerage, bank, utility account, etc, and buying the right stocks. This article will tell you if you want to reach financial independence, ignore those articles.

Why should you care about privacy - even if you had nothing to hide

You feel a sense of disgust when your mum or spouse looking into your phone, but why is it that it's alright for internet companies or your country to do the same?

VeilOS - Preview of Privacy Preserving Application Engine

Following the discussion on how Zero-knowledge Proof (ZKP) can be used in the field of civic technologies (CivicTech) and specifically how it can be used by different NGOs to coordinate food distribution to the food insecured, I’ve embarked on creating a demo application to showcase how it can be done as part of my fellowship with RadicalXChange Foundation.

How to build a program that cannot do the wrong thing (illustrated with Typescript)

With any task, how to make things work concerned me the most. Learning to do test driven development (TDD) comes a long way to help me make sure the code works as I intended - for both positive and negative examples. However, as I come across the "Representable/Valid Principle" introduced in James Koppel's Advanced Software Design Web Course, I found out that I can write code that that not just does the right thing but also can't do the wrong thing.

Comparing different ways to signal intent from multiple participants on the blockchain

Multisig wallets presents a way for different participants to issue a transaction on the blockchain but is that the only way? In this article I explore various options to represent the signalling of the intent for a transaction that requires more than one participant to agree on.

Decentralized Food Distribution Organisation

This post is a thought experiment of how we might design a scalable food distribution program that encourages philanthropy, protects the identity of the vulnerable and be resistant to fraud.

Running a Peer Promotion Nomination

The last thing the leaders want is to promote someone in the team who does not have the desired behavior or values of the team or organisation. How do you do that in a team of over 100 people?

Electronic Transferable Record on Blockchain

In this paper I outline how we can built an application leveraging on consensus mechanisms of blockchain to fulfill MLETR requirements.

Passive Investing Strategies with Cryptocurrency

You have purchased your first Bitcoin or Ether, now what? In this post I’ll share some of my favorite ways of making the cryptos work for me.

ZKP in Civic Tech - Re-imagining Identity Infrastructures

In this article, I share how ZKP can be used in CivicTech to create the next generation of public goods where government, businesses and citizens can better infrastructure to collaborate with one another. Specifically, I will explore 3 use cases where ZKP can be applied.