I’m Tripoli 👋 and I spend my time doing data analysis and theorycrafting in the cryptocurrency space. These days I'm particularly focused on the impact of MEV on Ethereum's geographic decentralization. Below is a breakdown of my writings from each year.

Writings

• 2024

  • The Role of Relays in Reorgs
  • Understanding Minimum Blob Base Fees: Analysis of EIP-7762
  • Supplementing Censorship Resistance Today
  • The Silhouette of Resilience
  • Latency is Money: Timing Games /acc
  • Distortion of MEV Auctions by Withdrawals
• 2023

  • The Year in Blockspace Demand (2023)
  • Timing Games - MEV CC 7
  • The Influence of CeFi-DeFi Arbitrage on MEV-Boost Auction Bid Profiles
  • Rules and strategies of a protocol
  • Is it insane to speculate on Friend.Tech keys?
  • Explaining the Friend.Tech experience with Pokémon Blue
  • Addendum: Endgame Perils of Restaking
  • User Generated Content Data Platforms
  • Endgame Perils of Restaking
  • Dichotomous Volatility
  • The impact of inscriptions on Bitcoin's fee market
  • Partial withdrawals after the Shanghai fork
  • The Economics of a Witness Stuffing Chain Stall Attack
  • Blockspace Competition and Inclusion Times
• 2022

  • The Year in Blockspace Demand (2022)
  • A wish list for crypto in 2023
  • Reflecting on flows models
  • The Merge and crypto's electricity consumption
  • Location didn’t matter for Bitcoin miners, until it did
  • Staking yield and ratios
  • Charting Ethereum into The Merge
  • Coin Metrics' State of the Network: Issue 169
  • The bitcoin security model endgame
  • The state of bitcoin transaction fees
  • Manipulating the velocity of money in proof-of-stake
  • Decoding cryptoasset network effects
  • How is the options market pricing The Merge
  • Ethereum validator withdrawals
  • Trading accumulation trend scores
  • Macro trend analysis via altcoin correlations.
  • The base effects of revenue per hash
  • Proof-of-stake and the Cantillon effect
  • Positioning Bitcoin mining stocks in a portfolio
  • Network effects: ethereum
  • Network effects: bitcoin
• 2021

  • Is Bitcoin Long-Volatility?
  • A Flows-Based Ethereum Price Model
  • Flows Analysis of Bitcoin Price History
  • The Supply Stability of EIP-1559
  • Cryptocurrency Portfolio Optimization
  • Trading bitcoin exchange flows during a bull run
  • The Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index
  Below the surface of EIP-1559
  • Exchange Balances / Flows
  • State of the (Ethereum mining) union
  • EIP-1559