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Please contact regarding any opportunities related to Bitcoin, software engineering, quantitative trading. Please see my CV, check out what i've been up to below. Contact me.

• utxo.club - Bitcoin engineering resources
• git - Some of my public software (FOSS!)
• CV
• email

Posts

• Proliferating Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash
• Front Running Noth Korea for Profit
• Fake Bitcoin Vanity Addresses
• Cryptography in Bitcoin with C
• On the Origin of GW190425
• Making Linux a Deep Fryer for Dopamine Receptors
• X1 Extreme Post Arch Linux Installation Configuration
• Creating a Moon Animation Using NASA Images and Python
• Printing a Star Wars Scene in Terminal with Bash

Recently:

• Attended the btc++ bitcoin development conference in Austin TX, and "worked" out of Bitcoin Park in Nashville for a few days.
• Worked with cutting edge cryptography using the Rust programming language 🦀. Implemented FROST and blind schnorr signatures into the secp256kfun library.
  Also worked on making MuSig2 compliant with draft specifications.
• Increasingly passionate about fostering the next generation of Bitcoin engineers. See utxo.club.
• Contributed to gun - a command line bitcoin wallet gun, learning Rust.
• Built a self custody Bitcoin payment processor, SatSale. It support lightning and on-chain payments, and is free software under the MIT license.
• Explored algorithmic & quantitative trading
• On-chain analytics and smart contract monitoring
• Market making - cross exchange (centralised and decentralised) arbitrage
• Volume profile analyses for directional strategies

• Completed my honours year of Physics at Monash University (Sept 2019).

  • Coauthored a paper on the origin of the gravitational wave signal GW190425.
  • My research relates to the interpretation of gravitational waves that originate from the merger of two neutron stars.
  • Previously I investigated the mass distribution of binary neutron stars in our Galaxy.

• Worked as a part-time mathematics & physics tutor, as well as some ski instructing during the Australian winter.

Most recently I have been interested in:

• Trying to help build peer-to-peer electronic cash: exploring and building Bitcoin related software. Lightning network features and protocol.
• Self hosting a variety of FOSS.
• Learning C through experimenting with elliptic-curve cryptography and by trying to write a Bitcoin vanity address generator.
• Custom GNU/Linux desktop environments. I recently installed Arch (btw) on my new laptop and have been exploring customisation such as the tiling window manager i3:
  
• Cryptocurrency tech, primarily decentralised prediction markets & exchanges.
• Web scraping & other quickly cooked up python projects.

Bitcoin: 1NickfqM6WTsfGsGV9iPrW43Y6tVtepwcV

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