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Terrible math related content is posted here. Mostly for fun. Also I started this to get 100 gwei in order to transfer out some USDC i have locked away in ETH, and I have no money to pay for gas fees. So I'm basically begging for money on the internet. proof: 0xB032058526305C70AE533D4020e9062F9Cde5DA5 is the account with USDC in it

WTF is "signing" something with ETH anyways, and what does it have to do with geometry? Part 2: Arithmetic in finite fields

13 Aug 2023 3 minute read 1 comment webguy24

PLEASE DON'T JUST SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE TO TIP! Read it, please. So in a previous post we defined what a field was. (Refresher: it's a set with addition and multiplication that behave in the "usual" ways). Our first example of a...

WTF is "signing" something with ETH anyways, and what does it have to do with geometry? Part 2: Arithmetic in finite fields

WTF is "signing" something with ETH anyways, and what does it have to do with geometry? Part 1: Finite Fields

13 Aug 2023 2 minute read 1 comment webguy24

Okay, if you spent any time using ETH, you have probably heard of something called "signing" a transaction. What does this do? To understand this, you first need to understand something called elliptic curve cryptography, which is basically what ET...