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William Greer

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William Greer
@greer184 Aug 18, 2024, 2:23 AM UTC

Death Of An Optimist: A Review

The soft waves gently tickle the ears with their melodic frequency, the distant warm glow of the sinking sun presses the face. It was a glorious day, but now it was time to say goodbye. Happen to stu…

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William Greer
@greer184 Apr 7, 2021, 11:00 PM UTC

Message Authentication using Schnorr Signatures in Rust

Today, I'm going to briefly go over how digital signatures work, how to use them to authenticate messages, and then providing an example using Schnorr Signatures in Rust. The reason for covering this…

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William Greer
@greer184 Feb 13, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

Building a "Decentralized" Application in Rust

Over the past six months, I have been primarily focused on developing software in my free time outside my full time development job as a software engineer. The focus of this programming has been thin…

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William Greer
@greer184 Jan 24, 2021, 10:47 PM UTC

In Search of the Meaning of Ethereum

While the fun of watching euphoric rises and exciting terror of trying to catch falling knifes in order to optimize that perfect dip buy have returned to the crypto space, things have changed since m…

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William Greer
@greer184 Aug 21, 2020, 12:15 AM UTC

On Blockchains and Men

I briefly want to speak about some thoughts about blockchains, data privacy, social networks, centralized trends, and Wannabe Web 3.0. More than anything I'd like to provoke discussion on this topic…

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William Greer
@greer184 Jun 27, 2020, 6:35 PM UTC

We Can Only Fight Gravity So Long

A balanced stone sits on its perch soaking in the sun, Frozen in time, mocking the sand, so high, the only one, It's power, mystique, a magnificent treat, confident and wrong The balance is weak, ben…

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William Greer
@greer184 Jun 4, 2020, 1:09 AM UTC

Shoot the Rationalist #12: Control

With the ability to project one's influence further than ever before with the power of the internet, people are freer than ever to tell me how the hell I should behave, what I should believe in, who…

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William Greer
@greer184 May 25, 2020, 2:00 AM UTC

Shoot the Rationalist #11: Dependence

The 2020 election is the most important election in my lifetime, they claim. It actually means less than ever before. In fact, if we really think about elections shouldn't really matter much at all.…

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William Greer
@greer184 May 19, 2020, 11:55 PM UTC

Requiem For Some Steem

Tomorrow at 14:00 UTC, Steem will cease to exist. May we remember the years of decentralized content and cryptocurrency that it gave all of us. In it's place will remain either another Steem altcoin…

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William Greer
@greer184 May 19, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

Shoot the Rationalist #10: A Failure to Fail

We live in some of the most prosperous times in the history of mankind, yet fear still dominates our perspective from day to day. It appears that we have perhaps developed an unhealthy relationship w…

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