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samrichards.eth
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Exploring new ideas in @ethereum and applied cryptography. Past: 6+ years at at @ethereumfndn building products and teams @privacyethereum @ethdotorg
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Joined January 2012
- Recruiter email: Hello Sam, Hope you well, I am looking for the Blockchain Developer-Remote with 4+ Years of experience in DeFI... So you're looking for the devs who built @MakerDAO? 🧐
- ethereum.org received 20 million visits in 2021, >5x the traffic it received in 2020 🤯 68 folks contributed to the project on GitHub, >2x the 30 contributors in 2020 3,500 translators joined & translated nearly 3 million words, >7x the people & >10x words translated
- Personal update: after 3 1/2 years building projects at the @Ethereum Foundation, I’m taking a 6-month sabbatical to unplug, recharge & explore the world 😎 I wrote a bunch of notes about my journey: mistakes made, lessons learned, things I’m proud of & people to thank but like
- Day 3 at @EFDevconnect & I haven’t heard a single mention of prices. Call me crazy that we’re handing out tulips in our swag bags 🌷🫧📈📉 but I think it shows how much the Ethereum community cares about building not shilling.
- This chart of @ethdotorg web traffic highlights how truly global #Ethereum is. In September we started adding translations to ethereum.org (we now support over 20). In October, translated content was 6% of total pageviews. In December it was 13%. In March we hit 20%!
- We just added our 100th page to the Ethereum developer documentation on @ethdotorg It's been amazing to see this resource come to life over the past few years - thank you to everyone who contributed (& continues to)! What's missing? Get involved!
- Curious about Ethereum staking withdrawals? New page on @ethdotorg is live 🚀 ethereum.org/en/staking/wit… Any questions that we didn't answer? Please comments & let us know!
- 2 years at the @ethereum foundation came & went fast! Seems like it’s been 6 months but somehow I feel a decade older 😅 Grateful to work in such an exciting space with passionate folks on projects that matter. Thx @0xstark @albertni @AyaMiyagotchi & crew for believing in me 🙏
- Personal update: after 6 months of touching grass, I'm excited to share my new role as team lead for MACI & quadratic funding efforts at the @Ethereum Foundation within @PrivacyScaling. Open source & funding public goods have long been passions of mine (well before I knew the




