Apr 19, 2022Joining BitgreenI’m delighted to announce that I’m joining Bitgreen as Marketing Director, combining my passion for protecting the environment with my experience in web3 marketing. 🤔 Why Bitgreen? Bitgreen is solving for the $50 Trillion shortfall in sustainable development financing. Bitgreen serves two historic market developments: rapidly increasing demands for carbon credits and impact…Bitgreen2 min readBitgreen2 min read
Jan 16, 2021Free Kusama gifsGreetings my fellow Kusamarians, here are some free Kusama gifs for you. 😁 Feel free to download, use, and share! These are large files and you may need to refresh if you are seeing something blurry.Kusama2 min readKusama2 min read
Dec 28, 2020Polkadot in 2020 — By the NumbersAs 2020 comes to a close, let’s take a look at some Polkadot network and ecosystem stats from the first year of its launch.Polkadot3 min readPolkadot3 min read
Dec 28, 202010 Questions for Finding Your CallingSome quickly find their calling-they find a career that engages, satisfies, and pays them. But for many of us, it’s not that simple. We end up drifting about, meandering down one path and then another, always wondering what it is we’re really meant to do. After many years of having…Life4 min readLife4 min read
Dec 21, 2020Kusama WallpapersSome Kusama community peeps asked for desktop and mobile wallpapers, so here they are! Check them out below. You can also find all the files here. These wallpapers are free to download and share!Kusama2 min readKusama2 min read
Mar 29, 20204 tips for managing coronavirus anxietyI’m anxious even in the best of times. I guess the upside to this is having had decades to figure out how to manage anxiety. Here are four practices I find helpful: 1. Log off social media, turn off the news Like laughter, fear is contagious. You can see this in birds where one of them starts acting nervous…Coronavirus3 min readCoronavirus3 min read
Published inParity Technologies·May 15, 2019People of Parity — Jaco Greeff“It was a string of numbers they gave me. It will never work,” Jaco Greeff ( GitHub, Twitter) recalls about his first impressions of Bitcoin. An electrical engineer by training, Jaco wrote embedded systems, C++, C, and was CTO at a few companies. …Polkadot6 min readPolkadot6 min read
Published inParity Technologies·Mar 29, 2019People of Parity: Erin Grasmick, DevOps EngineerProvisioning systems and tracking down bugs isn’t everyone’s idea of fun, but it is Erin Grasmick’s. With a degree in computer science, Erin always assumed she would be a programmer. But after over a decade of administering Linux systems, Erin realised that making systems work well is more fun, and…DevOps4 min readDevOps4 min read
Published inParity Technologies·Mar 7, 2019People of Parity — Tomasz DrwięgaA Parity OG, core developer Tomasz Drwięga (GitHub, Twitter) joined Parity as employee number seven (or 007, as he points out) in January 2016 and watched the company quickly grow from four developers hacking in Airbnbs to the 78-person, multi-office company it is today. Tomasz initially worked on the EVM…Parity5 min readParity5 min read
Published inParity Technologies·Feb 15, 2019People of Parity: Jack Fransham, Core DeveloperParity Technologies is made up of a large number of talented developers who are often as passionate about the technologies they build with as those they build. …Rust4 min readRust4 min read