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I build products & teams at @PrivacyScaling with support from the @Ethereum Foundation. Always under construction, thanks for your patience 🏗️

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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
3 years
Recruiter email: Hello Sam, Hope you well, I am looking for the Blockchain Developer-Remote with 4+ Years of experience in DeFI... So you're looking for the devs who built @MakerDAO ? 🧐
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samrichards.eth
3 years
received 20 million visits in 2021, >5x the traffic it received in 2020 🤯 68 folks contributed to the project on GitHub, >2x the 30 contributors in 2020 3,500 translators joined & translated nearly 3 million words, >7x the people & >10x words translated
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samrichards.eth
3 years
$ETH
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samrichards.eth
1 year
Personal update: after 3 1/2 years building projects at the @Ethereum Foundation, I’m taking a 6-month sabbatical to unplug, recharge & explore the world 😎 I wrote a bunch of notes about my journey: mistakes made, lessons learned, things I’m proud of & people to thank but like
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
10 months
Meanwhile in Istanbul…
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
4 years
Who would be interested in being a paid technical writer for @ethereum at @ethdotorg ?
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Day 3 at @EFDevconnect & I haven’t heard a single mention of prices. Call me crazy that we’re handing out tulips in our swag bags 🌷🫧📈📉 but I think it shows how much the Ethereum community cares about building not shilling.
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samrichards.eth
4 years
This chart of @ethdotorg web traffic highlights how truly global #Ethereum is. In September we started adding translations to (we now support over 20). In October, translated content was 6% of total pageviews. In December it was 13%. In March we hit 20%!
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Reunited & it feels so good! @Ethereum Foundation crew @EFDevconnect 🦄
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samrichards.eth
2 years
We just added our 100th page to the Ethereum developer documentation on @ethdotorg It's been amazing to see this resource come to life over the past few years - thank you to everyone who contributed (& continues to)! What's missing? Get involved!
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Curious about Ethereum staking withdrawals? New page on @ethdotorg is live 🚀 Any questions that we didn't answer? Please comments & let us know!
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samrichards.eth
3 years
2 years at the @ethereum foundation came & went fast! Seems like it’s been 6 months but somehow I feel a decade older 😅 Grateful to work in such an exciting space with passionate folks on projects that matter. Thx @0xstark @albertni @AyaMiyagotchi & crew for believing in me 🙏
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samrichards.eth
11 months
Personal update: after 6 months of touching grass, I'm excited to share my new role as team lead for MACI & quadratic funding efforts at the @Ethereum Foundation within @PrivacyScaling . Open source & funding public goods have long been passions of mine (well before I knew the
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samrichards.eth
3 years
I’ve had many discussions over the years on the potential of on-chain cap tables but never seen it articulated so clearly. Surprise, surprise, ⁦ @balajis ⁩ does it again.
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samrichards.eth
2 years
My proudest @ethdotorg stat: over the past year, non-English pageviews have doubled from 14% to 28% of total pageviews 🔥📈💜 Thank you to the >2,000 translators who helped translate in 2022! ICYMI, the site is available in 51 languages 🤩
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samrichards.eth
4 years
Shoutout to the nearly 200 incredible #Ethereum community members who have contributed to @ethdotorg so far:
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samrichards.eth
2 years
I already miss @EFDevconnect 🥲
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
5 years
Fascinating presentation from @SergeyNazarov on the work @chainlink is doing to connect smart contracts to real-world data & events. So much potential! Thank you & @starfishsf for the event
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samrichards.eth
3 years
Who is interested in a front-end development position with @ethereum at @ethdotorg ? Our team is hiring! Come build products that touch millions of people every month:
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Confused about Ethereum's roadmap, or why it even needs one? Tired of pretending to know the Verge/Purge/Splurge mean? New resource hub on @ethdotorg is live 🚀 Anything you still have questions on? LMK! Keen to help us keep this up to date? Submit a PR!
@VitalikButerin
vitalik.eth
2 years
Updated roadmap diagram!
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samrichards.eth
11 months
Ok friends I'm back, what did I miss? 😂
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samrichards.eth
1 year
Personal update: after 3 1/2 years building projects at the @Ethereum Foundation, I’m taking a 6-month sabbatical to unplug, recharge & explore the world 😎 I wrote a bunch of notes about my journey: mistakes made, lessons learned, things I’m proud of & people to thank but like
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samrichards.eth
3 years
Who's up hacking on a Friday? Great intro to @graphprotocol by @austingriffith & @azacharyf I know I'm late to the party but great work on the graph! Built on our first subgraph this week & loving it. Solves such a large pain point in an elegant way.
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samrichards.eth
3 years
What are Ethereum’s blinds spots? What risks are we ignoring as a community? Went to Bitcoin Miami & met mostly terrific people. Humble, hungry, smart, curious people. But some are willfully ignoring new information.
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Hard to overstate how incredible Devcon Bogotá was. Amazing energy! The Ethereum community is unlike any I've ever been apart of. Such passionate, mission-driven, kooky people building a better world. Grateful for you all. You continue to inspire me. Kudos to @EFDevcon team! 💜
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Power squad @sassal0x @EdFelten @gluk64 @ben_chain @OhadBarta @jadler0 talking Layer 2s at @l2beatcom @EFDevconnect - this panel should have been 2 hours longer!
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samrichards.eth
3 years
Want to get paid to learn & teach Ethereum every day? Help us grow our open source community!
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
@jgreenhall Fresh preview of upcoming @ethdotorg staking resources to help you navigate options (solo staking, pools, saas providers):
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Merge🐼✅ @EFDevcon 🦄✅ Next up? @EthMedellin 🇨🇴
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
Intimidated by layer 2? Want to start using one? Look no further! 🤩 Kudos to @corwintines & the @ethdotorg crew who worked hard on this, with help from many community members 💜 Feedback appreciated! What would you like to see in our v2 iteration?
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
Happy new years all! I have the ability to give a gift of $7,000 to any person/team/project in the Ethereum ecosystem. Who is most worthy? Who is under appreciated? With who would these funds make the greatest impact on their outcomes?
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samrichards.eth
2 years
My @EFDevcon talk on @ethdotorg was accepted 🥳 It's titled "Education as a public good: past, present & future of ". Anything you'd like to see me cover? Please let me know!
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
4 years
Are you a developer wondering how to make a name for yourself in the @ethereum community? Write some content for @ethdotorg ! Here are some open requests for new pages: We also welcome new ideas - open a new issue & sprinkle it with your knowledge! ✨🧙‍♂️
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Fresh off the press - Q2 recap update from the @ethdotorg squad: As always, thanks to our core team, hundreds of code & content contributors, and the thousands of translators who make this all possible. I love this community 💜
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Embarrassed it took this long but better late than never! Finally running an Ethereum full node with @nethermindeth & @sigp_io Lighthouse on @IntelNuc with @DAppNode 💪 Thank you to @wackerow with help on the setup!
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samrichards.eth
2 years
@camiinthisthang Last bear (2018-2019) felt scarier. Lots of FUD questioning the actual use of Ethereum other than an ICO platform for a bunch of suspect projects that hadn't shipped. This time around, there's apps in production & tangible use cases. It's clear this industry is here to stay.
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samrichards.eth
2 years
The @ultrasoundmoney site just gets better & better - nice work @alextes 🦇🔊
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
3 years
Disappointing to see. @poapxyz if you do have criteria for who can & cannot issue POAPs, this process should be transparent & you should publish your KYC/AML requirements so that it's known. Feels arbitrary to assume a Farsi podcast is based in a US-sanctioned country.
@shiryakhat
شیر یا خط | Shir Ya Khat (shiryakhat.eth)
3 years
The 💩 story came to an end. First: We tried w/o social media, we were ignored. Second: We tried again w/ social media to involve the community, and we got shut down for involving the community Doomed If U Do, Doomed If U Don't!
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Shoutout to @ETHGlobal for another incredible event. Had a blast in NYC. Met some of the brilliant >1500 hackers from >50 countries & saw demos from many of the >240 projects. Congrats to everyone who participated! Psyched to see these projects years from now changing the world.
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Great intro to #DeSci by @paulkhls at @DeSciBerlin Excited to learn more about this emerging field! 🌐🔬
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samrichards.eth
2 years
What a joke lol - we're rebuilding the @go_ethereum website & submitted the new site to @algolia @docsearch_ . This was their reply. How tf is the documentation website for the most popular Ethereum client not a technical open-source project? 🧐
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
9 months
Hey gang - just published a draft of the 2024 product roadmap for @zkMACI Tried to be fairly thorough. Hoping to bring radical transparency to our core team's work as an Ethereum public good. Feedback appreciated!
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
10 months
100%, great execution & can’t overstate how impressed I am with the local Türkiye community I feel it’s also the industry increasing in quality & depth over time
@PaulRBerg
Paul Berg
10 months
Anyone feel like this Devconnect was one of the best crypto conferences ever?
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
Amazing, already >$4,000,000 USD raised via crypto wallets for Türkiye 🇹🇷 earthquake relief
@LibraryDefi
Baki - bucky on Clave
2 years
There are currently 4 different campaigns running for crypto donations: - @haluklevent & @ahbap , - @Chain_sos , - @TOGVakfi - @refikanadol 's wallet All of these are in a @nansen_ai dashboard. Overall we currently reached 3.23 Million USD! 🇹🇷
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
3 years
Our end of year team update is out! What should we work on next year?? Let us know!
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2 years
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3 years
Stoked on our new Community Hub for @ethdotorg : Any communities you think are missing that we should highlight? Additional ways to get involved with Ethereum? Anything else we should add?
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
Curious to hear top picks for events in 2023. What's on your list? Mine: - @EthereumDenver - @eth_porto - @Ethereum_Brasil - @EthCC - @EFDevcon
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
Should @ethdotorg be opinionated? Should we optimize for being credibly neutral? Or should we optimize for UX? Keen to know what people think!
@tsudmi
Dmitri Tsumak
2 years
Is it normal that points to RocketPool for people who have less than 32 ETH? Is this the diversity we all fight for? @VitalikButerin @ethereum
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
3 years
A group of us added internationalization support on the Eth2 Launchpad. It turned into some nice content & design improvements as well 😎 We'll be rolling out 15 languages in the coming weeks. Appreciate any feedback in the meantime. Happy validating!
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samrichards.eth
9 months
Much love @EFDevconnect & Türkiye community 🫶🇹🇷 Still so much to process from 4 weeks in Istanbul. Many takeaways but one was being blown away by the Turkish people, culture & crypto scene! Super impressed with the many locals I met... engineers, researchers, writers,
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
5 years
This screencast intro to #ethereum development is amazing 🤯! Thank you @austingriffith for creating this:
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
1 year
Hola amigos! Trying to learn Spanish. Who are the crypto people who blog/podcast/tweet etc. in Spanish that I should follow?
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
10 months
🔥 @AndyGuzmanEth giving @zkMACI & many other great @PrivacyScaling projects a shoutout at @cryptistanbul LFG LFBring ZK to the masses 📈
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
11 months
Seems a common misconception is EF's treasury size. Even a friend deep in the space was shocked when I told him the EF owns under 0.5% of ETH supply. "0.297% of the total ETH supply on March 31 2022" From the April 2022 report:
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
3 years
Updated @ethdotorg chart with Q1 data. In short, traffic to our translated content has absolutely exploded (~4x since December):
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
4 years
We've received tremendous traffic growth to @ethdotorg content translations. Proud to say we've 10x'd in just over a year! Shout out to @sorumfactory & our incredible community of volunteer translators. Excited to announce our 2021 plans to continue this trend. Stay tuned 📈🚀
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
4 years
Excited to present our new @ethdotorg developer resources at @ETHGlobal this Friday with the illustrious @ryancreatescopy ! Come learn about our vision to build the @MozDevNet for @ethereum - how it'll help you build now & how you can get involved with our open source community.
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samrichards.eth
2 years
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
4 years
Who is the best #ELI5 writer in the #Ethereum ecosystem?
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
SPOTTED: the Merge panda found out raging in Medellín after @efdevcon ! Well deserved I'd say... but you be the judge.
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
The custom Ethereum @stackexchange is live! ✨🦄✨
@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
Amazing! @StackExchange will be building a custom site design for the #Ethereum StackExchange ()! The process is currently in the "information gathering" phase. Give your input!
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
10 months
Finally banned from a crypto event. Joining the list of Sams being canceled every November 😂 thanks @qnou . Can’t please everyone 🤷‍♂️
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samrichards.eth
4 years
Great to see the #Ethereum dev stack evolving. Kicking off my 1st project with Buidler ( @NomicLabs ) & @ethersproject for the @ETHGlobal hackathon. LOVING the DX improvements of these tools. Great intro by @RHLSTHRM :
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
Over 4k contributors to the @clrfund @EFDevcon quadratic funding round on @arbitrum ! Can we surpass the @ethStaker round's 4704 contributors ()?? You won't 😏⚔️
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
1 year
WTF is Quadratic Funding? Slides from my @eth_porto talk in case anyone is looking for a primer 🫡 Includes links to lots of resources I found useful!
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Impressed that ChatGPT can explain account abstraction & ERC-4337 Should we just build a chat bot on @ethdotorg ? How expensive would that be, say 1MM queries/month?
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samrichards.eth
2 years
gm @EFDevconnect 🚴‍♀️🇳🇱💙
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
gm, my @EFDevcon talk is live! Learn how the @Ethereum Foundation has approached building @ethdotorg as a community-driven project (now 1K code & content contributors, 4K translators): Feedback welcome - what did you wish I covered?
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
3 years
Ethereum dapp UX question: should the app display the estimated tx fee? Or should we leave that for the wallet to display? My concern is that we may calculate it differently than e.g. @MetaMask , which might lead to user confusion.
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samrichards.eth
1 year
Appreciate the love amigos! It means more than you know ❤️ To get nostalgic for a bit, it’s crazy to look back & to see how far @ethdotorg has come 🥲 When I started contributing in August 2019 I couldn’t believe that there was no one working on full
@samonchain
samrichards.eth
1 year
Personal update: after 3 1/2 years building projects at the @Ethereum Foundation, I’m taking a 6-month sabbatical to unplug, recharge & explore the world 😎 I wrote a bunch of notes about my journey: mistakes made, lessons learned, things I’m proud of & people to thank but like
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Add @Ethereum Foundation's @EF_ESP to the list of customers @Mailchimp has rugged. Anyone have good recommendations for email subscription services with solid API integrations? Or any that don't pull the plug on paying customers without any notification or justification?
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samrichards.eth
2 years
I just contributed to the 🕯️KZG Ceremony🕯️ to help scale Ethereum 🚀 You can too!
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samrichards.eth
10 months
Excited for @zkp2p ! Bullish on more apps building “permissionless web2”. Cool use case built on @zkemail from @richardzliang
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
4 years
Last week's @ethdotorg dev highlights: - Launch on @IPFSbot available via @ensdomains on ethereum.eth - Finish component rollout of new design system, including #Twemoji 🦄 All updates here: Feedback, issues & PRs always welcome!
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
4 years
This week @ethdotorg shipped: - New Ethereum Foundation page - Fresh content for Enterprise page - Developers page updates - New styles (site search & Meetup list) Full 🚢 updates here: What should we work on next? ✨🦄✨
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Amazing! @StackExchange will be building a custom site design for the #Ethereum StackExchange ()! The process is currently in the "information gathering" phase. Give your input!
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
3 years
Thank you to everyone who made 2021 a huge success for the project. You make working on Ethereum & open source such a pleasure every day ✨❤️✨ You can learn more about @ethdotorg here: Get involved here:
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samrichards.eth
3 years
Massive shoutout to our @ethdotorg translation community. In 2021, over 2,500 volunteers translated 2,900,000 words. Those efforts led to our translated content on collectively receiving over 4,200,000 pageviews in 2021 (430% growth from 2020)!
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samrichards.eth
2 years
My @EFDevcon talk will be on @ethdotorg & education as a public good. That's as far as I've planned 😇 - anything you want to know? What should I cover?
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samrichards.eth
4 years
Who are the top #Ethereum dev educators who we should recruit for a workshop to improve @ethdotorg ? We just launched a bunch of new developer content on the site & could use your to help audit it & plan our next iteration.
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samrichards.eth
3 years
Psyched to return to @EthereumDenver ! Favorite moment at ETHDenver 2020 was @tayvano_ 's talk on the first ever flash loan hack from the day before. That shit was SCARY. Then the legend @nanexcool dropped his presentation to take a Q&A on potential @MakerDAO contract risks. 💥
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Just finished The Cryptopians by @laurashin - worthy read! Quick thoughts as someone who has only been in the Ethereum space since 2018 & is coming up on 3 years working for the @ethereum foundation...
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
2 years
In the @ethStaker @clrfund Staking QF round, I contributed a small amount to @nicenodeapp , @stereumdev , @beaconcha_in , @DAppNode , @rotkiapp , @EthereumOnARM & @SomerEsat ! But, thanks to ZKP magic, there's no way I can prove it. Sorry to all my bribers out there...
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samrichards.eth
11 months
Ok, mapping out my @EFDevconnect Istanbul events: - Staking gathering ( @ethStaker ) - ZK developer day ( @SuccinctLabs ) - Progcrypto ( @0xPARC & @PrivacyScaling ) - ( @TimBeiko & @tzhen ) What'd I overlook? 🧐
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samrichards.eth
3 years
Who are the most reputable dev shops in the web3 space? Thinking mainly dapp dev (app & smart contracts) but also curious about tooling & infra. @ChainSafeth & @LimeChainHQ come to mind. Any others? Shill away.
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samrichards.eth
3 years
Merry Christmas fellow builders 💪
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
3 years
Spent the past week on vacation trying to explain blockchain to a bunch of boomers. We have a long way to go people.
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samrichards.eth
3 years
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samrichards.eth
11 months
Perhaps a reason why the @Ethereum Foundation should publish these reports more regularly 🙂 Useful context for the ecosystem to have!
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samrichards.eth
11 months
Seems a common misconception is EF's treasury size. Even a friend deep in the space was shocked when I told him the EF owns under 0.5% of ETH supply. "0.297% of the total ETH supply on March 31 2022" From the April 2022 report:
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samrichards.eth
2 years
Q1 updates from @ethdotorg fresh off the press! See what we shipped so far this year: Shoutout to our hundreds of contributors & thousands of translators who keep this education train running for millions of Ethereum community members 💜
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samrichards.eth
3 years
Fam we made it! #DeFi
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samrichards.eth
3 years
There's an open election for moderators on #Ethereum @StackExchange . Ends in 7 days. Only 5 candidates: How do we get more great people involved?
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@samonchain
samrichards.eth
1 year
Public guds are suh gud
@kevinrolsen
Kevin
1 year
🫡 @samonchain doing the heavy lifting for us explaining QF to the crowd at ETHPorto
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samrichards.eth
10 months
First day in Istanbul & a bird shit on me. That’s good luck right? I’m told I should buy a lottery ticket 🤑
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