nickfarrow.com

• utxo.club - Bitcoin engineering resources
• git - Some of my software
• CV
• email

Please contact regarding opportunities related to Bitcoin, software engineering, cryptography, quantitative trading.

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
• Old X1 Extreme Laptop Configuration
• Creating a Moon Animation Using NASA Images and Python
• Printing a Star Wars Scene in Terminal with Bash

• Implemented Flexible Round Optimized Threshold (FROST) signatures and blind schnorr signatures for the secp256kfun library.
• Bitcoin engineering resources: 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 - built own backtesting engine but haven't released code yet.
• Market making - cross exchange (centralised and decentralised) arbitrage. Hedged rebalancing with algorithmic order excecution.



• Completed my honours year of Physics at Monash University (Sept 2019)
• Coauthored research on the origin of the gravitational wave signal GW190425.
• Interpretation of gravitational waves that originate from the merger of two neutron stars.
• Previously 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.

• Building Bitcoin software: blind schnorr signature demo. FROST
• Self hosting a variety of FOSS.
• Learning C through experimenting with elliptic-curve cryptography and by trying to write a Bitcoin vanity address generator.

Bitcoin: 1NickfqM6WTsfGsGV9iPrW43Y6tVtepwcV

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