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First start-up: Banks, payments & risk.
By Frederik Oddershede Markor | |
In this post we examine the death of my first startup, and the birth of my second one. How one company can be the arbiter of what industries should exist.

A little about me

Hello.

This is my personal blog where I write in about a broad variety of topics, though most are pretty technical in nature. Infosec, business, and privacy.

Ever since I was 7 years old I self-taught various programming languages, I learned reverse engineering, I started a company, sold it. Then I co-founded Discreet, a privacy-respecting L1 with EUTXO programmability, which ultimately ended up being economically & regulatorily unviable due to EU compliance tightening on anonymizing cryptocurrencies (such as Monero, ZCash, etc.). 

In general, I love building consumer-facing apps and protocols. Either socially interesting, or architecturally complex. I find peer-to-peer and zero-knowledge technology fascinating. 

That is what you can expect from this blog, a lot of technical writing, networking, cryptography, infosec, with the occasional opinion piece thrown in there, as well as hobbies/projects I am working on, hopefully this can serve as a sort of CV eventually.

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Use this PGP key when contacting me if you value privacy. Make sure to include your own public key for an encrypted reply: [email protected]

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me

Taken on Waiheke, a small ferry-ride away from the city of Auckland, when it was still good weather in New Zealand (2023).