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At some non-specific point in the past few years I acknowledged that my greatest enjoyments and biggest successes come from trusting my gut. I spent a lot of 2017 thinking about things and reading about things. Introspecting. Not in a meditation/mindfulness kind of way but rather in a 'just

I was asked on Twitter for more details on my solution for verifying the authenticity of a message signed with an Ethereum private key. This was discussed in this blog post which provides an overview of what I was trying to do and how i conceptually achieved it. It is

I have been fairly vocal on my personal Twitter account about how speculation in cryptocurrency markets is getting out of hand. I wrote a post in August entitled Why/How I built EthTools.com. The short version is that in 2015 I stumbled upon Ethereum. It sounded technologically promising and

This is a blog post that wrote itself. School When I was 11 my parents sent me to boarding school. This is to this day the most contentious issue in my relationship with my parents. Well.. I lie. At this point in time I think we have agreed to disagree

One of Double Negative's products is EthTools.com, a website which provides a number of tools for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. I have recently been playing around with D3.js a visualisation library written is Javascript. It hit me that visualising the Ethereum blockchain would be incredibly cool and

I wrote a separate post about my trip to New York (more generally). Race details The New York City Marathon was held on the 9th November 2017 in New York, New York. It was my third marathon, and I finished it in 3:28:58. More information about the race

I was having a look through my photos of this trip and decided that I would upload the best photos and then write around them. Here goes. I wrote a separate race report. When I arrived in NYC the queue at immigration was awful (stupid terrorists). I was desperate for

Having been procrastinating on YouTube I have stumbled upon a number of videos from popular YouTubers. A lot of these videos involve young and successful vloggers who have (I assume) made lots of money from Youtube. I was intrigued as to how much YouTubers are getting paid such that they

Last week I went to the Trafford Centre. I was wanting to get a pair of good quality jeans. My jeans always fall apart so I figured that investing in a 'quality' brand was probably a worthwhile investment. Nudie Jeans had been reccomended to me, and so I headed to

Five or so years ago I exclusively used my custom built Windows PC. It was great. It was also yellow. Then I used a Macbook. Things changed. Since then, whilst I do regularly use Windows PCs for boring day to day stuff (Internet browsing, playing games etc), I spend the

Every so often my father will forward me an email with a message like "Is this for you". He broadly assumes that any email relating to something he does not understand must be for me. I have explained to him that I have my own email. I generally know what