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BowTiedDevil

2 years

So you want to be a Shadowy Super Coder and learn MEV, but don't know where to start? Follow this beginner's outline or get lost in the Dark Forest forever! (it's dangerous to go alone) ...

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

After much autism and late nights, I am debuting my paid stack — Degen Code! Together, we will build tools to automate your trading and arbitrage on Ethereum and its L2s/sidechains. Just promise you won't act too stuck up after you buy your yacht 🥂

Welcome to Degen Code

Build your bot army and let them make money while you sleep

www.degencode.com

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Adults who avoid learning new things because "muh neuroplasticity is gone" Bullshit! I'm pushing 40 — I learned Python, took up blockchain programming and started botting because it was interesting My old-ass brain works fine, quit coping

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@BowTiedDevil

1 year

I studied the basics of Python in a weekend and then started building bots. I never went to school for any of this and have no formal resume. The Python police didn't show up asking for my qualifications. You can just go build stuff without asking!

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Surreal experience from this weekend: explaining to my mom that I'm a cartoon devil teaching an extremely specific kind of coding to thousands of strangers on the Internet, and now I don't need to keep my office job 🙃

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@danielesesta Lol imagine having a DeFi podcast and not knowing Daniele

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@BowTiedDevil

3 months

@TheStalwart If it can run Arch Linux, two or three nerds will support it forever

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

You'll learn more in 2 hours debugging a problem in code that you wrote than sitting in a multi-day boot camp Absolutely no substitute for time spent in the trenches

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@Cernovich "He must have been a weakling" ayyy lmao what a Chad I love this guy

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@BowTiedDevil

3 months

@PopPunkOnChain @wizardofsoho You got mev'd bro gg

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

I don't understand why everyone wants me to jump on a zoom or hop on a call or pop into a group chat MF I haven't left my house in three years what makes you think I want to connect?

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@LionInWinter44 Nobody thought to vaccinate the boat itself?!

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@BowTiedDevil

3 months

If you're a Python dev doing web3 stuff, beware of the breaking change introduced in hexbytes v1.0. The `hex()` method no longer prepends '0x' to the hex string, so if you're doing keccak hashing be aware that it'll be all screwed up. The new method `to_0x_hex()` preserves the

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

🤖🎉🎂 Happy one year anniversary to Degen Code! I published my first lesson for paid subscribers exactly one year ago.

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

@BowtiedCuda Oh it gets much worse, I haven't asked for the ketchup yet

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

@BowTiedBull The worst drivers all prefer Nissan

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

I just negotiated a 7 figure exit from my 9-5 All I have to do is work my way up, get promoted to president, and sell the company Follow me for more forbidden career tips the elites don't want you to know!

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@BowTiedDevil

1 year

He's right, you know. Beginner level stuff can save you a lot of time. Huge ROI. There's even a book written for this EXACT situation, which I recommend!

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@BowTiedDevil

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It's never been easier to just learn something and go build stuff. I went to university for engineering, so I recognize the value of a credentialed degree in a gatekept profession. But I see more potential from building software on my own than sitting in an office. And all of

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@BowTiedFox

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actual advice for young people that was not written by a boomer and shows you how to retire by 30 1. school will directly interfere with your education. you need to stop wasting time and get as much work experience as possible AI has changed the game SO MUCH that university is

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

To properly model UniswapV3 trades I rewrote every part of computeSwapStep() in a Python package, including all the inline Yul 🤪🧩 ayyyyyy lmao if some huge arbs don't come out of this I'm gonna be so salty (lesson dropping this week)

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

A Degen Code subscriber and Discord regular just landed a full time web3 job after learning about blockchain automation These skills are rare and very much in demand That is all 🤖

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Shout out to Bull for the tweet that blew the doors off my self-understanding forever 🫡

BowTiedBull - Read Pinned Tweet or NGMI

@BowTiedBull

3 years

Part of the reason your trauma induced autism leads you to be a better worker at night? It was the only time you could think and be left alone. There are no coincidences anon!

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

@BowTiedOx Ox helps the autistic get jacked, I help the jacked get autistic 🤝

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

The BowTiedJungle is an interesting place, a black mirror that shows whatever you want. I was enjoying a comfy middle class life when the Jungle self-organized last year. It looked fun, so I picked a cartoon and added a bow tie. Then everything changed. 🧵

BowTiedOpossum | Ecommerce

@BowTiedOpossum

2 years

I hereby dub 6/9 as BowTiedJungle day. The BowTiedJungle has had an enormous impact on my life for the better. I’ve made some great frens and am now making more progress towards my goals than I have in years. What has the BowTiedJungle done for you?

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Knowing math is a cheat code and a life hack! I don't mean to be a snob about this, but how TF do people navigate the world without understanding how to manipulate basic numbers? Does everything seem like magic? Do you just trust anything with a "SCIENCE" sticker on it?

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@BowTiedDevil

6 months

@BowTiedLoon My wedding will be for adults with kids only — NO childless people allowed 🚫 We faced some backlash from a few family members about this. But to be honest — I really don't care. Marriage is to make families and we want to spend it with families. We don't want to deal with

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

PSA: 👏 Free 👏 VPNs 👏 are 👏 honeypots

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

🤖 If you're a pathological bagholder who refuses to take profits, you can build a simple bot that automatically sells half on a double, then shuts down Many bags have been saved with this one WEIRD trick 🫡

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@BowTiedDevil

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

Wifey is running Linux on her laptop and using a de-googled phone. Yes, this is a flex.

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@BowTiedDevil

7 months

@bowtiedlamb 😂 Took wifey a long time to take the recycling pill. The argument that finally got her was "if recycling had a positive economic value, someone would pay you to take your paper, bottles, and cans"

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@Cernovich Waking Up from Sam Harris

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Crossed the 1K subscriber mark on Jungle Day. Simulation confirmed!

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

If this gets 69 retweets, I will drop a 🔥 thread EXPOSING the hidden Python techniques that professional coders DON'T want you to know. This is the only time I'll share this hidden knowledge. After that? Gone forever. The choice is yours. - Your friend, Devil p.s. 9 left

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

As I spend time coding, I realize that math is rarely the limiting factor (data analysis and numeric modeling excluded). Verbal/language skills are pivotal for most tasks. Most of the coding skill gap is translating "what I want" into "what the machine can do".

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@BowTiedDevil

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

The substack is on pace to replace my 9-5 income within the year. And the bots are making money too. WiFi money is a hell of a drug, and there's no way I would have come close to this without joining the Jungle and learning from smart cartoons. Happy 6/9 everyone!

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Autism Capital 🧩

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

@SummersThings @avi_eisen It was a highly successful incarceration strategy

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

STEP 0 — LEARN TO CODE You're not going to have a good time or be able to execute on anything I share if you can't code. I code primarily using Python. Reasons for this: - Clean syntax - Object-oriented (if you want) - Strongly typed

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Just earned $0.02 interest on my personal checking account. Passive income boys!

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@BowTiedDevil

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

Don't sleep on Degen Code, now ranked #21 in the "Crypto" category on Substack (and coming up fast)

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

This dumbass has put his bowtie back on, unblocked me, and is DMing requests to promote his new scam product Not interested, do not recommend, would pull if found in my garden 👎

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

If you tell me Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas you're NGMI, bug eater energy

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@BowTiedDevil

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

@danielvf Holy smokes crypto is the best, where else do you get a show like this?

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@disclosetv @BowtiedcheetahE Agile humanoid robots that can pursue you forever without tiring. What could go wrong?

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Bow tied is the new blue check

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@BowTiedDevil

4 months

Almost used "retardio" in a work email Close call

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@BowTiedDevil

1 year

@BowTiedOx There’s a trend, and I think I’ve only seen it in the last 5-6 years, of grown women opining when they observe something. I have to say it is extremely gay. Women shouldn’t share their thoughts. It should be reserved for extreme moments of pain eg death.

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

A guide to ALMOST understanding the UniswapV3 pool contract — Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tick Bitmap 🦄🧠

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@BowTiedDevil

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

- Interpreted (can be used "live" in a console) - Popular - Huge library of support material I learned Python by reading Automate the Boring Stuff. You can buy the book or read the free version online

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

you: fumbling with your hardware wallet to swap shitcoins with 5% slippage me: bootstrapping a node to improve bot execution time by one block built_different()

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

A high level thread on ERC-20 tokens, and why they don't work the way you expect. 🧵

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@BowTiedDevil

2 months

Mg2+ Papi, the BowTied Mg2+

@Grimhood

2 months

You’re not intelligent enough to resolve your cynicism. Mid curve intelligence.

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Woke up this morning and my size was size. Cheers everyone you've warmed this devil heart 😈

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@BowTiedDevil

1 year

Simple test for the curious / techie personality combo When you were a child, did you break open a toy to learn how it worked?

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@BowTiedDevil

11 months

Oh, an L2 just dropped and all the big accounts are shilling it within minutes? Great! Better bridge my net worth over, surely these anons have my best interests in mind and would NEVER give me terrible not financial advice.

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@BowTiedDevil

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If she doesn't adopt all of your ideas (even the really fringe ones) within a month or two, it's not gonna work out Not satire

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@BowTiedFox

9 days

once upon a time, I was out with some friends and there was a girl interested in me who asked me what I'd like to drink I didn't want anything, so she kept asking why 🫨 obviously I didn't want to tell her I was a devout follower of prophet Huberman (peace be upon him), so I

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Shoutout to @BowTiedApollo for a most dapper devil

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Getting Qs in DMs so bubbling this back up If you're looking to learn Python, I recommend starting with Al Sweigart's book Automate The Boring Stuff Al published a free online version so you can get started literally right after you read this

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

There is not a cookie-cutter path in this arena, and only the most flexible and talented people will be successful. MEV is a zero-sum game. If you want to win, start with the end in mind. Get to work and come find me when you're ready. Good luck, searcher! 🫡

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Are there any big names in crypto that aren't retarded or con artists? This week has really taken a hammer to the reputation of the space.

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@BowTiedBull The ultimate Boomer move is double clicking on hyperlinks

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

It's so weird being plugged into CT, whipped up into frenzies all weekend, then clocking into my W-2 and I'm reading polite emails about sensitivity training webinars and industry mixers Don't these people know we're all gonna die? Have they seen the 1m charts AHHHHHHH

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

@adamdavidson Hope she sees this bro

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

Traveling for business this week. My hotel room number is 404, nobody could find it.

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

While everyone is celebrating their $ARB airdrop, let's not forget this ABSOLUTE CHAD who saved everyone's bags last year.

riptide

@0xriptide

2 years

My bug bounty write-up on a critical vulnerability I discovered on Arbitrum Nitro which allowed an attacker to steal all incoming ETH deposits to the L1->L2 bridge @icodeblockchain @samiamka2 @Mudit__Gupta @0xRecruiter @BowTiedCrocodil @BowTiedDevil

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@EdLatimore Fractional reserve burgers

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

@BowTiedBull Subprime lending for groceries, AAA from Moody's

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@BowTiedDevil

1 year

@BowTiedCoffee @walrusinasuit @ElijahSchaffer @BowTiedPickle Totally unrealistic, real programmers get stuck for way longer than a week

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

I 100% picked the wrong career, but the synergy of autism and crypto is allowing me to make up for a lot of lost time and money. Only a matter of time before my evening hustle replaces the desk job.

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BowTiedDevil

@BowTiedDevil

2 years

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Being part of the Cartoon Network is a tremendous opportunity or a huge time waster, depending how you spend your time. Already changed my life, 2023 will be even more intense. 🫡

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

A well regulated Virtual Machine, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Algorithms, shall not be infringed.

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@BowTiedBull Gas fees amirite

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

That'll do $STX, that'll do.

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@BowTiedDevil

5 months

The IT department at my day job loves to move stuff to the cloud and push employees to use remote desktops on a shared server. I get it, but this setup adds fractions of a second to literally every action I take, all day every day. Beyond just slowing me down, my concentration

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

I recommend exploring (at minimum) these areas of mathematics and economics: - Algorithms - Pathfinding - Statistics - Optimization - Linear algebra - Graph theory

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

STEP 1 — LEARN HOW THE BLOCKCHAIN WORKS You're not going to understand a thing about MEV if you don't fundamentally understand blockchain technology Watch this video for a high level lesson on the bitcoin blockchain and proof-of-work consensus mechanism

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

100 pages into The Sovereign Individual. Holy smokes what a mind-bending read. The concept of society being structured in according with the logic of violence is making me reconsider everything I've ever learned about history.

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@BowTiedDevil

10 months

@BowTiedFawn It all started with talking on speakerphone in public 😑

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@BowTiedDevil

2 months

@BowTiedBull Added these to my to-do list thanks boss

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@BowTiedDevil

1 year

I started a hobby newsletter and it replaced my W-2 income within a year. Everything corporate is a scam, but it can benefit you if you don't take it personally 😎

BowTiedOpossum | Ecommerce

@BowTiedOpossum

1 year

Corporations brainwash you into thinking you need 2 decades of niche experience to do anything. When you think you’re “ready”, you’re already saddled with kids, a mortgage, and a high standard of living. You don’t. At all.

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Many come to MEV thinking they'll get a money printer They don't expect that the skillset you develop can become a new career What you learn directly applies to the backend / infra concerns of NFT and DeFi teams, and whitehat bug bounty hunting Nobody is talking about this!

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@BowTiedOx I propose mandatory not being a fat fuck

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

Nobody will remember: - Your salary - Your fancy title - How ‘busy’ you were - How stressed you were - How many hours you worked People will remember: - Your first successful atomic arbitrage because you wouldn't stop screaming "let's fucking gooooooo" and high fiving everyone

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

@mcchadald @TrustlessState @danielesesta Cringe with 18 decimal place accuracy

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@BowTiedDevil

7 months

Born too late to explore the new world Born too soon to explore the stars Born at the right time to be a Zynfluencer

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@BowTiedDevil

1 year

@AltcoinPsycho Impressive, very nice — let's see Paul Allen's indicator

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BowTiedDevil

@BowTiedDevil

2 years

I just published my 40th Substack since launching on Dec 13 On average, I write a full length turbo-autistic post every 3.25 days No idle hands here 🥂

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@BowTiedDevil

2 years

GM to all current and hopeful shadowy super coders. Once again reminding you that smart contract devs are rare and precious unicorns. Don't miss this chance to be early! 🦄

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@BowTiedDevil

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STEP 2 — USE THE NETWORK WITHOUT A FRONTEND First, determine which language you want to code in, then find the appropriate web3 library for that language. Java — Rust — Python —

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2 years

If you're not following @Grimhood , why not? Dude has encyclopedic knowledge of chemical pathways and body function, a true autiste.

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@BowTiedDevil

3 years

You don't have to be brilliant to be a coder, but you do need strong abstract thinking skills. It's not especially difficult to build an algorithm to process some data, the part that trips people up "thinking like the computer"

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3 years

Imagine knowing Python and not sliding easily into smart contract programming with @vyperlang

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