Antony Denyer

The US dollar’s supremacy and global reserve currency status are in decline caused by many fiscal, monetary and foreign policy changes. Not least massive amounts of government debt creation and forced seizure of central bank foreign reserves (held as treasury bills). [Read More]

In hyperledger besu, members of a network can communicate privately using private ethereum transactions. The way it works is relatively simple. First, a standard ethereum transaction occurs publicly with an input field containing an enclave key. Then, that enclave key is used to fetch the private transaction. A private transaction... [Read More]

In GoQuorum, members of a network can communicate privately using smart contracts. The way it works is relatively simple. First, a standard ethereum transaction occurs in public with the input field containing an enclave key. Then, that enclave key is used to fetch the private contract from your private enclave.... [Read More]

Testcontainers is a great project that helps you orchestrate throwaway docker container instances. I wanted to integrate test some smart contracts that I’d been working on with a real ethereum network rather than with ganache. [Read More]

GCP PubSub is an off the shelf hosted message queue system. It offers some reasonably standard features. Conceptually GCP supports topics and subscriptions. You post a message onto a topic, and they fan out to subscriptions. Each subscription can have one or many consumers, with messages being load balanced between... [Read More]