A list of my blockchain writing

Edward A Thomson

4 min readJun 21, 2018

This isn’t a super exciting story but rather a handy way for me to keep track of my blockchain writing.

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Web3 Foundation

I was a major contributor to the first version of the Web 3 Wiki hosted by W3F, plus their collaboration repo.

Scaling Solution Spreadsheet

The following spreadsheet contains a comparison of various scaling solutions. Most are Ethereum centric, but not all of them. The original data came from the ScalingNOW! workshop that I attended in Barcelona on behalf of W3F.

Scaling Solution Spreadsheet — Overview of scaling solutions

Blockchain blog posts:

The following list is most of what I’ve written but not quite everything.

Preventing cheaters in Fog Of War Games (1st June 2020)
SubRogue: the build so far (1st April 2020)
On Infinite Multi-User Dungeons (29th March 2020)
SubRogue: a simple game with tough problems (5th January 2020)
The thick and thin of blockchain gaming architectures (31st December 2019)
Fork off! Preserving gaming communities with blockchain technology (20th December 2019)
Trusted trade-offs in blockchain gaming (16th December 2019)
SubRogue — a PoC decentralized blockchain game (22nd October 2019)
Cryptocurrency storage and custody needs better solutions! (10th September 2019)
The limits of action verification in blockchain games (7th April
In game and on-chain: guilds can become companies (16th March 2019)
True ownership needs provable on-chain assets (9th March 2019)
Governance of and incentives for a Web 3 game (19th January 2019)
The worlds of Web 3 Games (13th January 2019)
Using Polkadot to power the future of online multiplayer games (9th January 2019)
Blockchain gaming: putting the state on-chain (2nd January 2019)
An overview of Liechtenstein’s Blockchain Act (25th October 2018)
Summary of the 2018 Fintech-li conference (8th October 2018)
From Bitcoin to Polkadot: A brief history of consensus and finality in blockchains (6th September 2018)
Review of a meetup in Crypto Valley v1.2 — Vaduz, Liechtenstein (25th August 2018) [Steetmit copy]
Business banking for blockchain organisations (5th August 2018) [Steetmit copy]
Jobs in blockchain: how I got in and how you can too (19th July 2018) [Steetmit copy]
Setting up a validator node in Polkadot PoC-1 (26th June 2018)
Moving to Crypto Valley (24th June 2018) [Steetmit copy]
Preparing to build on Polkadot (21st June 2018)
How Polkadot tackles the biggest problems facing blockchain innovators (7th June 2018)
San Marino — my travel to a budding blockchain nation (May 2018)
Concerning power asymmetries and governance structures (2018)
ScalingNOW! Day 2 Summary: DApp Developers Deliberating Sensible Scaling Solutions (6th April 2018)
ScalingNOW! — Scaling Solution Summit Summary (26th March 2018)
How secure are large-scale mining and validation facilities? (March 2018)
Protecting against replay attacks in inter-operating and multi-blockchain environments (January 2018)
Learning to code a blockchain (December 2017)
Vector bonds: dynamic consensual liquidity in DPoS blockchains (December 2017)
Recent research and findings in anonymous transactions (December 2017)
Europe is well-positioned to play a key role in crypto space (November 2017)
Learning about blockchain (November 2017)
Smart contract security (October 2017)
Is it possible to find a blockchain company from 1987? (October 2017)
Ethereum London meetup — 71 — ERC Identity & Swarm (October 2017)
Polkadot — Update — PICOPS + Preliminary analysis of the ICO contract (2017)
Review: Inaugural Enterprise Ethereum Alliance meetup in London (August 2017)
My preliminary analysis of the Polkadot ICO (July 2017)
Blockchains, Data Protection, and GDPR (2nd July 2017)
London Ethereum Meetup 69th Edition (1st July 2017)
Getting started with Ethereum mining (24th June 2017)
What is a blockchain in simple terms? (24th June 2017)

My older blog posts were mostly from a financial perspective rather than a technical perspective. It is interesting to re-read these. In the first post the price of Bitcoin was $12 and in a later post the price was $750. FYI, these posts are also preserved in the Internet Archive (Way Back Machine).

Cryptocurrency Capital Distribution (29th November 2013)
Bitcoin, bubbles, and alternative cryptocurrencies (23rd November 2013)
Bitcoin and Litecoin Mining (15th October 2012)
Bitcoin — a description and explanation (4th October 2012)

Learning about blockchain

I also created a page that that links to many other useful websites to help people start learning about blockchain.

Learning about Blockchain

About me

Currently, I work at the Web3 Foundation, covering numerous responsibilities, but mainly security and communications.

One of the main projects of the foundation is the Polkadot network. A next generation blockchain platform. To read more about the innovation that Polkadot is bringing to the blockchain industry I invite you to read the following blog post: [link].

I also set up the first Polkadot fan-site which you can find here: Polkadot Market.