It’s been a busy seven days. Last week Kimmo and I made it in to the center of Tampere to record a podcast with Leonidas, which provided us with an entertaining afternoon and wonderful views of the center of Tampere. Those guys sure have a nice office space! We’re hoping that early next year we can team up again to organise an after-work blockchain presentation and hacking session. I’ll keep you posted – we need some more actual technical activity in Tampere involving blockchains.

Today we were interviewed for an article in Tredea web-magazine, in which we touched on a variety of topics ranging from why a British guy would move to Finland, to how we got involved in blockchain technology, and some philosophy and even politics were brought in to the conversation. Again, when the article comes out there will be a link on these web pages to point you in the right direction.

I also finally completed and filed Chainfrog’s fifth patent application with the USPTO. As a result, I’ll be able to publish our paper on a new consensus protocol idea that I’ve been mulling over for the last month. Ironically, the paper describing the idea is only six pages long, but the patent write-up stretches to fifty-one, including the diagrams. Empirical proof that the law is ten times as verbose as mathematics.

Finally, I took some time out over lunch to change the splashscreen on my laptop from the logo of the company that built it to the Chainfrog logo. Nothing to do with blockchains, but occasionally you need to take a break from real technical work to relax.

And as for the title of this post? Well, that’s a reference to a comment someone made, namely that “Kimmo is the guy who knows everyone, and Keir is the guy who knows everything.” If only the latter were true … there are only seven billion people on the planet, but with over 129 million books in the world, that’s easily over 14 billion pages to be read: two for every person. And I’ve not even started reading “Under a Northern Star” by Väinö Linna.