Jose Storopoli, PhD

Legacy Hardware Wallet Signing stuff is so hot right now Announcing YubiKey EVM Signer: an Airgapped Hardware Wallet using your YubiKey natively in EVM chains.

Bitcoin Finance is the Future This weekend I moderated a panel on “The Interoperable Layers of Bitcoin” at SatsConf where the main discussion points were: Why do we need more layers of Bitcoin?

Tiny Hands This month, I’ve became a father!

Ulysses and the Sirens I work with what I call “mission critical” software, where we have the assumption that something really bad happens when software crashes or misbehaves.

A curios mathematician seeing a blackhole of self-referential paradoxes.

Just sprinkle a little bit of randomness, and voilà!

This post is the written version of my very condensed 45-minute talk at BTC++ 2025 Floripa.

Dedicated to John Peter, since I was tired of having to explain this to him every time we met.

The Road Less Travelled Recently, I’ve moved my blog from Go and Hugo towards Haskell and Hakyll.

I have been following the development of Zig for a while now.

Von Neumann’s wartime Los Alamos ID badge photo John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician.

Zero-knowledge proofs and the meaning of life Lately, I’ve been diving a little into the world of Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

The Polynomial king and he can do anything!

Sherlock Holmes fights Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls Got state secrets?

Password meme In this post, let’s dive into a topic that is very important for anyone who uses the internet: passwords.

Euclid This is the companion post to the cryptography workshop that I gave at a local BitDevs.

rust webdev meme It all started when I had to accompany my mom to the hospital.

htmx bell curve I love to learn new things and I’m passionate about Stoic philosophy.

In programming language circles there’s a recently trend of discussing a concept called zero-cost abstractions: the ability to use higher-levels abstractions without suffering any loss of performance.

Dennis Lindley Dennis Lindley, one of my many heroes, was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.

Euclid of Alexandria I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger self that you can make a machine understand human language with trigonometry.

Soydev meme Let’s dive into the concept of “soydev”, a term often used pejoratively to describe developers with a superficial understanding of technology.