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Non-Fungible vs Re-Fungible Tokens in Solidity
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Jovonni Pharr

Apr 26, 2022

What is the next evolution of NFTs , and how do we implement it? Behold, the RFT … The Fractionalization of an NFT NFTs exist on top of an existing blockchain protocol, with its ow

Printing Source Code onto a Shirt: A problem I didn’t know existed
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Jovonni Pharr

Feb 12, 2022

The Problem Last year, I found myself wanting to buy a creative, funny, and witty shirt with source code on it. I wanted the code to say something like: https://medium.com/media/da

Safe?Moon: The problems revealed by Certik’s audit of Safemoon
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Jovonni Pharr

May 3, 2021

Safemoon physical coin Some may see this article referenced as “FUD” , “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt”. However, there is a concrete difference between FUD , and Facts . A more impo

Introducing Paychange: a financial petition platform to enable supporter leverage
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Jovonni Pharr

Jun 8, 2020

The Pay Change platform Today we are pleased to announce an experimental platform for petitioning using financial leverage, Paychange . Conventional Petitions are notoriously probl

Introducing AfricaOS: a decentralized protocol to empower the Continent & Diaspora
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Jovonni Pharr

Jun 7, 2020

Read the full white paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10486 Today, we announce the release of AfricaOS (AOS) in its alpha-beta stage. We say alpha-beta because we are still ha

Introducing Kunta: A New Blockchain Development Ecosystem
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Jovonni Pharr

Jun 6, 2020

Today I am excited to dive deeper into what the Kunta platform offers (even though we have been working on this for years ❤). For those interested in reading our papers, or peeping

The Reemergence of Purpose-Built Blockchains
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Jovonni Pharr

Jun 5, 2020

The trend of building general-purpose blockchain protocols for the entire world to use is proving to be very problematic. These systems become bloated because they are attempting t

The fundamental problem with ownership in music streaming today
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Jovonni Pharr

Jun 4, 2020

Back in the day, music listeners would visit a music store, and physically purchase a body of music — singles, albums, etc Now, listeners simply stream the song. For this article,

Introducing OpenUBA: an open source user behavior analytics platform powered by the scientific…
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Jovonni Pharr

Jun 3, 2020

Introducing OpenUBA: an open source user behavior analytics platform powered by the scientific computing ecosystem Visit www.openuba.org for more detail, but I would love your feed

Silently Hacking Alexa, Siri, and Google Now with Ultrasonic Sound
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Jovonni Pharr

Sep 16, 2017

A look at DolphinAttack, a technique for issuing inaudible ultrasonic commands to digital voice assistants like Siri and Alexa.

My Top 5 Talk from DEFCON 25 (2017)
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Jovonni Pharr

Aug 21, 2017

A roundup of Jovonni's top five talks from DEF CON 25, with links to the presentation slides and videos.

"With Great Power"
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Jovonni Pharr

Feb 21, 2017

A reflection on the meaning of "with great power comes great responsibility" and the obligations that power carries.

An explanation of "Ouroboros"
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Jovonni Pharr

Jul 24, 2016

An explanation of the ouroboros symbol and the idea of self-sustainability it represents.

GSU Featured Student Graduate – Jovonni Pharr
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Jovonni Pharr

May 4, 2015

A short note sharing Jovonni Pharr's feature as a Georgia State University Robinson College graduate, with a link to the article.

Manned vs Robotted: An Argument for the Latter
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Jovonni Pharr

Apr 23, 2015

A short essay making the argument for unmanned over manned approaches.

Challenge, Culture, Commit — How to start a revolution
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Jovonni Pharr

Apr 20, 2015

Reflections on three mechanisms — challenge, culture, and commit — that a TED talk speaker proposed as the triggers of a revolution.

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Jovonni Pharr

Mar 30, 2015

A short reflection using the phrase "the empire strikes back" as an analogy for over-analyzing customer discovery conversations.

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Jovonni Pharr

Mar 23, 2015

A dream in which Tony Montana shares three keys to any accomplishment: foundation, formulation, and acceleration.

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Jovonni Pharr

Mar 23, 2015

An original poem framed as a one-sided conversation addressed to Life.

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Jovonni Pharr

Mar 22, 2015

A brief note on gratitude for being able to say that life is good.

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Jovonni Pharr

Mar 22, 2015

A personal, biased case for why everyone should learn to code, drawn from eight years as a software engineer.