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) ...
BowTiedDevil
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- 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 🥂 degencode.substack.com/p/welcome-to-d…
- 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
- 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!
- 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 🙃
- Replying to @danielesestaLol imagine having a DeFi podcast and not knowing Daniele
- Replying to @TheStalwartIf it can run Arch Linux, two or three nerds will support it forever
- 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
- Replying to @Cernovich"He must have been a weakling" ayyy lmao what a Chad I love this guy
- Replying to @PopPunkOnChain and @wizardofsohoYou got mev'd bro gg
- 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?
- Replying to @LionHearted76Nobody thought to vaccinate the boat itself?!
- 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
- 🤖🎉🎂 Happy one year anniversary to Degen Code! I published my first lesson for paid subscribers exactly one year ago.