Rich Samartino

Living life 144 blocks (about one day) at a time 😎

"This is the fun part." 😂 Maybe it's type 2 fun but so thankful to Greg Walker and Learn Me a Bitcoin for breaking down technical details of Taproot transactions!

Taproot | Technical Explanation

A technical explanation of the Bitcoin taproot upgrade and how it works.

Sunday reading ☕️

Interesting article about the history of #rust

MIT Technology Review

How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

"The software inside devices like elevators is often written in languages like C++ or C, which are famous for allowing programmers to write code that runs very quickly and is quite compact. The problem is those languages also make it easy to accidentally introduce memory bugs—errors that will cause a crash. Microsoft estimates that 70% of the vulnerabilities in its code are due to memory errors from code written in these languages."