Building on blockchains

Last semester I participated in a research seminar on applications of blockchain technology at Aalto University. The aim of this seminar was to see which fields could benefit from the merits of blockchains, as well as gain some insight in how to design systems based on blockchain technologies. To facilitate this we teamed up in groups of two to work on selected topics, and I worked with Taneli (a colleague student at Aalto) to investigate whether it is feasible to create trackable supply chains using blockchain technologies.

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Lessons learned from a failed hackathon

Last weekend I attended Junction together with Khaled. It was tons of fun and I had a great time, but we ended up with absolutely nothing to show for it. Except for a neat shirt of course. Normally we’re constantly bouncing the silliest ideas off each other, so how come we produced nada for this particular hackathon? Below are the reasons I managed to come up with.

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ALICTF 2016 - showmethemoney

Unfortunately I didn’t have much time to play this CTF, but this challenge caught my eyes and I decided to look at it at the last few hours of the tournament. I didn’t manage to do it in time for the CTF due to the lack of time and some bone-headed mistake, but I went on with it anyways the day after.

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