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Route Blinding Explained: A step to understanding the proposal.

Aug 8, 2024 · 18 min read · The goal of this article. The point of this article is to explain the bolt pull request 24/25. This pull request introduces the concept of route blinding to the lightning protocol. I like to think of this article as explaining route blinding to someo...

Improving Neutrino's speed: Parallelizing block header download.

Aug 20, 2023 · 6 min read · INTRODUCTION One of the projects I worked on as part of my Summer of Bitcoin project is parallelizing header downloads across peers in Neutrino. I worked on this project under the mentorship of Jordi Montes, whose support and guidance helped me throu...

Optimizing the neutrino sync process - adding support for sideloading.

Aug 20, 2023 · 3 min read · INTRODUCTION Neutrino is a privacy-preserving light client. It is "light" as it does not download the entire Bitcoin block. Rather, it downloads only Bitcoin block headers and block filter headers. This makes it, "light" as the average size of a Bitc...

My experience building an opentelemetry receiver for KubeArmor as a Linux foundation intern.

May 31, 2023 · 6 min read · Introduction I was selected as a Linux Foundation mentorship program'23 intern for the KubeArmor project. I Learned a lot during my 12 weeks building open telemetry support for KubeArmor Logs. I had awesome mentors, Anurag Kumar, Barun Acharya, Ankur...

My take on getting open source internships.

May 22, 2023 · 5 min read · Note that this is skewed towards landing open source internships as a code contributor but of course, there are various other ways one can contribute to open source. Last year, a schoolmate, Gift Muoneke, posted on LinkedIn about the call to apply f...