Spreadsheets are great tools for many tasks related to trading. Organizing data, visualizing results, even calculating complex formulas are strong reasons for their ubiquitous use in the industry. As your needs grow however, certain aspects of spreadsheets can become problematic.…
In the high frequency trading world, distance is everything. But for those outside the HFT arena, what role does distance play? Let’s start with some hard numbers. Network Latency I have a virtual private server (VPS) in New York, New…
TLDR – The devil is in the details when optimizing critical components. Can you write an order book algorithm that is optimized? First let’s tear apart the question: An order book algorithm The algorithm is certainly an important piece. A…
As our order book is a collection of bids and asks, let’s create a naive implementation: Ok, so there is the basics. But with plenty of issues. Firstly, we will almost always be expecting those collections to be sorted. So…
Even the monolithic “Thick Client” software applications have layers. You may need to look for them, but they are there. How well these layers are separated impacts the performance, maintainability, portability flexibility, and security of the end product. Let’s explore…
The komodostate file contains “events” that happened on the network. The file provides a quick way for the daemon to get back to where it was after a restart. Some of the record types are for features that are no…
An issue recently popped up that required a review of notarization OP_RETURNs between chains. As I hadn’t gone through that code as yet, it was a good time to jump in. NOTE: Consider this entry a DRAFT, as there are…
This post is mainly for me to keep track of which hardforks did what. The main hardforks in Komodo are for the election of notaries. But there are other purposes. I will add to the list as I learn more.…
I recently deployed an unofficial testnet for Komodo. This will allow me to perform system tests of notary functionality without affecting the true Komodo chain. The idea is to change as little code as possible, test the notary functionality from…
Note: The following are my thoughts as a developer of Komodo Core. This is not a guarantee the work will be done in this manner, or even be done at all. This is me “typing out loud”. The Komodo Core…