It’s been a few months since I’ve written anything long form. Now that BTC has breached 100k and tailwinds look as bullish as ever, it’s helpful for me to organize and share my thoughts around my strategy for crypto’s “Next Leg”.

Every once in awhile it’s very therapeutic for me to write out my thoughts in a long, rambly type way. I usually do this over a voice call with a friend or in bits and pieces in group chats, but I figured I’d give it a shot in a public setting. This is going to be long and certainly incoherent or illogical at certain points. I’m not trying to convince you of anything and none of this is advice. It’s simply to help me organize my thoughts. I’ve tried to label it so you can skip around to certain sections if you’re interested. If you want to talk about any of this, DM me on twitter and I’m happy to dive into anything in detail.

Since this opportunity has dried up and I don’t see it coming back in the near future, I’m going to share my journey in farming OHM forks with high rebase percentages.

\*DISCLAIMER: The method described in this article for generating random secrets \*\*IS FLAWED AND NOT SECURE. \*I’m leaving the content up as a learning exercise, but generating random numbers from signatures is not good practice. An attacker could control k, the secure random variable used in generating a signature and create a valid signature until finding one that generates a favorable roll.

Last night I spent 6 hours pulling my hair out trying to figure out why after compiling my contracts with hardhat, the generated factory in typechain/factories contained no bytecode or deploy export. This post is meant to explain how I solved this issue and help other developers from losing their minds. If you are stumbling upon this post after hours of searching the internet in terms of a fix, hopefully this helps.