Research notes
Field notes on applied systems.
A working archive of writing from Miners Union, Decentraland Analytics, Atlas Corp, risk-tech work, and Quarterbridge, plus selected outside references that shaped the work.
Most entries are original published works and project records. Selected Pieces are context links and reference notes, not rehosted articles.
Selected signals
Notable reads
AI 2027
By Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean
Curated reference note: selected piece by other authors. The full scenario is not copied here. This belongs in the selected shelf because it articulates the forthcoming J-curve in AI better than most writing in the...
Identifying 100-year-old Mining Preferred Shares
Identifying 100-year-old Mining Preferred Shares by Rob The Miners' Union Unravels a 100-Year-Old Mystery of Shindig Mining Preferred Shares We think a little brevity is needed in light of the recent crypto-recession....
Atlas Corp and DCL Metrics Help Decentraland DAO in Data Collection
By Decentraland DAO
This belongs in the coverage lane because it is outside confirmation of the Decentraland data thesis from the community that needed the work. The Decentraland DAO article frames Atlas Corp and DCL Metrics as two 2022...
The Final Word on Decentraland's Numbers
By Cam Thompson, George Kaloudis, and Sam Reynolds
Coverage note: this page records the receipt and points to the original article. This belongs in the coverage lane because it is the public receipt for Atlas Corp and Decentralandalytics data entering the broader...
Metaverse Data - Don't Trust, Verify!
It came to our attention that what we assume to be a smear campaign is being run against our metaverse home – Decentraland – purporting that there are only 38 daily active users. Atlas CORP is not affiliated with the...
Lucky Number 7 - An Audit of Roulette in Decentraland
Powered by Decentralandalytics One of the most popular attractions in Decentraland today are the casinos. These estates receive a large amount of the total player traffic in game, and are often the locations of popular...
The Segregated Witness
He flinched as the sea spray blurred the view of his phone, suddenly becoming aware of the peril involved in holding it in the open so close to the edge of the platform as the helicopter blades still roared. As he...
Container Orchestration from Container Orchestration
Archive extraction note: sourced from the public Medium RSS feed for @robertdseidman. This is an example of container orchestration demonstrated through... container orchestration. I mean this label of "orchestration"...
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
By Satoshi Nakamoto
Curated reference note: selected piece by another author. A local PDF mirror is hosted here for preservation. The Bitcoin whitepaper is one of the base documents of the machine future because it states the primitive...
Ethereum is a Dark Forest
By Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos
Curated reference note: selected piece by other authors. The full article is not copied here. This is one of the cleanest crypto-era explanations of why public blockchains are adversarial systems in practice, not just...
By section
Archive collections
Miners Union
2017-2019
Bitcoin mining operations, regulation, hardware economics, mining-finance oddities, and Miners Union-era story drafts.
Decentralandalytics, A Division of Atlas Corp
2021-2022
Atlas Corp's Decentraland analytics division: public-data arguments, roulette analysis, DAO metrics, and CoinDesk-era response work.
DAO Grant Updates
2022
Monthly updates for the Decentraland DAO-owned data aggregation grant, kept separate from the broader Decentralandalytics archive.
Atlas Corp
2021-2022
Web3 technical posts, project highlights, and Atlas narrative work.
Medium / Risk Tech
2020
Finance technology essays, Kubernetes orchestration, and risk-platform storytelling.
Coverage
2023
Third-party coverage and community writeups about Atlas, Decentralandalytics, and related work.
Selected Pieces
2008-2025
Reference notes for important pieces by other authors, kept as links and context rather than rehosts.
Current Writing
Now
A landing lane for new Quarterbridge writing.
By date
All posts
37 entries
AI 2027
Curated reference note: selected piece by other authors. The full scenario is not copied here. This belongs in the selected shelf because it articulates the forthcoming J-curve in AI better than most writing in the...
Atlas Corp and DCL Metrics Help Decentraland DAO in Data Collection
This belongs in the coverage lane because it is outside confirmation of the Decentraland data thesis from the community that needed the work. The Decentraland DAO article frames Atlas Corp and DCL Metrics as two 2022...
The Final Word on Decentraland's Numbers
Coverage note: this page records the receipt and points to the original article. This belongs in the coverage lane because it is the public receipt for Atlas Corp and Decentralandalytics data entering the broader...
Atlas CORP Integrates Chainlink VRF
Atlas CORP Integrates Chainlink VRF to Help Power ERC-1155 Minting with Random Collection Selection We’re excited to announce that Atlas CORP has integrated Chainlink Verifiable Random Function (VRF) on Ethereum...
DAO Data Grant Update #3
DAO Data Grant Update 3 November 3rd, 2022 37,-5 (Atlas Norte) By howieDoin – Business Development and Infrastructure at Atlas Corp How we doin’ DCL community? This is the third update on the progress of the DAO Data...
Atlas Innovates ERC-1155 Minting with Chainlink VRF
Atlas CORP, a leading provider of web3 development services, has recently launched a smart contract that demonstrates a novel way of minting from ERC-1155 collections. Using Chainlink VRF, users can mint from a contract...
Metaverse Data - Don't Trust, Verify!
It came to our attention that what we assume to be a smear campaign is being run against our metaverse home – Decentraland – purporting that there are only 38 daily active users. Atlas CORP is not affiliated with the...
DAO Data Grant Update #2
DAO Data Grant Update 2 October 5th, 2022 37,-5 (Atlas Norte) By howieDoin – Business Development and Infrastructure at Atlas Corp How we doin’ DCL community? In our last DAO Grant Update I spoke a little bit about the...
Tales from the Atlas Defensive Division: Loab
Tales from the Atlas Defensive Division Loab: An Emergent AI Entity By howieDoin We were shown a glimpse this month, a warning portending a future which requires greater consideration in creation than we apply today. I...
Tales from the Atlas CORP Web3 Auditing Department
Trusting bots with your seed Note: As this blog is based on a true story, some details such as names and exact use cases have been altered to protect the identity of our clients. The themes and lessons remain valid. The...
DAO Data Grant Update #1
DAO Data Grant Update 1 | September 7th, 2022 | 37,-5 (Atlas North) Update by howieDoin – Business Development and Infrastructure at Atlas Corp How we doin’? I want to start by thanking the community for participating...
Decentralandalytics - DAO Owned Analytics
Decentralandalytics – DAO owned analytics We believe Decentraland player usage data should be collected by the DAO and made available to all Decentraland users. Player location data is currently available through use of...
DCL Wearables Analytics Dashboard Announcement
The Atlas Corporation is proud to announce the completion of the DCL Wearables Analytics Dashboard application. This application was funded as a DAO Grant proposal at the end of last year in order to meet the challenge...
Augmenting Your Narrative With Atlas Corp
Augmenting your Narrative With Atlas Corp Why would I include Atlas Corp in our community narrative? The Atlas Corporation is a mysterious web3 development shop involved in building out the technical framework for a...
Blockchain Jesus Whitepaper: Kissed by a Rose
Curated reference note: the full document is not copied here because it appears to be by another author. This appears to be the "Bitcoin Jesus" story candidate: a long allegorical crypto story using the title...
A Primer to Msgs.eth
A primer to Msgs.eth msgs.eth is a protocol that allows you to communicate on the blockchain. It became apparent that the atlas corporation would need to reach out and communicate to ethereum addresses in which no...
Project Highlights: Atlas Corporation Presents Snarky Sharkz
Project Highlights: Atlas Corporation presents Snarky Sharkz The Atlas Corporation was pleased to accept the privilege of being selected the technology providers for the SnarkySharkz Society recent NFT PFP drops of the...
Lucky Number 7 - An Audit of Roulette in Decentraland
Powered by Decentralandalytics One of the most popular attractions in Decentraland today are the casinos. These estates receive a large amount of the total player traffic in game, and are often the locations of popular...
Escaping the Dark Forest
Curated reference note: selected piece by another author. The full article is not copied here. This is the natural companion piece to "Ethereum is a Dark Forest." Where the first article shows a rescue attempt losing to...
Ethereum is a Dark Forest
Curated reference note: selected piece by other authors. The full article is not copied here. This is one of the cleanest crypto-era explanations of why public blockchains are adversarial systems in practice, not just...
Container Orchestration from Container Orchestration
Archive extraction note: sourced from the public Medium RSS feed for @robertdseidman. This is an example of container orchestration demonstrated through... container orchestration. I mean this label of "orchestration"...
So You Want to Start Bitcoin Mining
So you want to start bitcoin mining Bitcoin mining is a perfectly legal endeavor. In order to mine bitcoins, miners run SHA256 double round hash verification processes to validate bitcoin transactions and provide...
Bitmain Announces New 7nm Bitcoin Miner
Bitmain Announces New 7nm Bitcoin Miner by Rob Bitmain, the world leader in mining equipment, has finally announced their next generation Bitcoin mining ASIC leveraging 7nm technology. At a purported efficiency of...
Q&A with our Mine Manager: How Many Jobs will Bitmain's US Facilities Create?
Q&A with our Mine Manager: How Many Jobs will Bitmain’s US Facilities Create? by Rob Over the last few months, Bitmain has announced their intentions to bring two mining facilities to the United States: one in Walla...
Un plaidoyer ouvert au Quebec sur l'exploitation miniere de Bitcoin
UN PLAIDOYER OUVERT AU QUÉBEC SUR L’EXPLOITATION MINIÈRE DE BITCOIN by Rob A la fin de 2017, il semblait que vous alliez être le Galt’s Gulch de crypto-monnaie, un endroit où une nouvelle vague d'entrepreneurs pourrait...
Identifying 100-year-old Mining Preferred Shares
Identifying 100-year-old Mining Preferred Shares by Rob The Miners' Union Unravels a 100-Year-Old Mystery of Shindig Mining Preferred Shares We think a little brevity is needed in light of the recent crypto-recession....
An Open Plea to Quebec on Bitcoin Mining
At the close of 2017, it looked as if you were going to be the Galt’s Gulch of cryptocurrency mining, a place where a new wave of entrepreneurs could establish the underpinnings of the next generation financial system...
Introducing Miner247: Automated Mining Software
Introducing Miner247: Automated Mining Software by Rob Introducing Miner247: Automated Mining Software Your Trusted Friend Running a mine shouldn't have to be your day job. Hire Miner247 to do it! Miner247 is an...
Laws that Bitcoin Mining is Forcing Us to Rethink
Laws that Bitcoin Mining is Forcing Us to Rethink by Rob As cryptocurrency mining becomes more popular, or merely more present in the public ethos, there’s been a number of sensationalist, clickbait headlines about the...
Mining Calculator Extended to Siacoin and Decred
MINING CALCULATOR EXTENDED TO SIACOIN AND DECRED February 4, 2018 by Rob No comment(s) Info, Learn, News The Miners’ Union mining calculator has been extended. Supported currencies have been expanded to include Siacoin...
Obelisk Tech Clients Breathe a Sia of Exasperation as Bitmain Releases Antminer A3 Miners
Obelisk Tech clients breathe a Sia of Exasperation as Bitmain releases Antminer A3 Miners Last night Bitmain announced that a new miner, the Blake2b-mining Antminer A3, is now available for sale. This beats the...
Q1 2018 Bitcoin Mining Projections
Q1 2018 BITCOIN MINING PROJECTIONS January 4, 2018 by Rob No comment(s) News As you might have read, we are of the opinion that the two factors that need to be modeled when projecting mining returns are growth of the...
A Better Mining Calculator
The current mining calculators are linear. By our observations, the key drivers to projecting mining profitability exhibit exponential behavior. A better model is needed. I’m not claiming our model is perfect – but it’s...
Bitcoin Mining Is Not a Tax Free Exercise
Bitcoin mining is not a tax free exercise – no matter if its a hobby or for business. Knowing how taxes play a role in your bottom line is key to realizing all the benefits of dedicating your expensive hardware to...
Continuous Voting
This document is to serve as one of a series of thought experiments of how our world might be transformed from recent advances in technology. It should be made clear that this particular example relies on arguments that...
The Segregated Witness
He flinched as the sea spray blurred the view of his phone, suddenly becoming aware of the peril involved in holding it in the open so close to the edge of the platform as the helicopter blades still roared. As he...
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Curated reference note: selected piece by another author. A local PDF mirror is hosted here for preservation. The Bitcoin whitepaper is one of the base documents of the machine future because it states the primitive...