About

This is the website of Josh Stark where I write about Ethereum, blockchains, and the futures we can build with them. I am particularly interested in understanding and articulating why blockchains can be worthy of trust, and how this proprety can be compared to existing infrastructure.

 

I work for Ethereum at the Ethereum Foundation as a member of the management team. Previously I co-founded ETHGlobal and L4.

 

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Ethereum's distinctive property is hardness
Making sense of Trust Experience (TX)
What was Bitcoin's total transaction volume in 2021?
Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains
The Year in Ethereum 2021
Pong, not Programs
The Year in Ethereum 2020
The Year in Ethereum 2019
Brief responses to two USV Ethereum Critiques
The Year in Ethereum 2018
Making Sense of Web 3
Making Sense of Ethereum's Layer 2 Scaling Solutions
Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics
The Space of Possible Economic Relationships
Making Sense of Smart Contracts
Introduction to Smart (legal?) Contracts
A simple view of Ethereum
This one owns itself
Companies, Code, and Generic Marketplaces
A Thousand Little Central Banks
A platform for value technologies
Every little bit helps
A Simple View of Blockchain