Hello! I'm Charles Vallone

Some of you may know me as smartgoo (my social media identity since childhood).

Welcome to my personal site. Here you'll find my writing, things I'm working on, and links to projects.

I'm a private person, but, there's just something about sharing work in public:

• It's a forcing function for better thinking (and actually finishing work)
• Contributing back to the public collective human experience feels right

My Current Projects

Kaspalytics — analytics for the Kaspa network.
Kaspa Notes — notes and writing on Kaspa.
Kaspa Python SDK — Python bindings to rusty-kaspa, under the Kaspanet org.
GitHub — code and open-source work.

Writing

Two forms of writing live on this site:

• Essays — longer-form pieces. Posted here first (canonical), and mirrored on Substack.
• Brain Dumps — shorter, less-polished thoughts. Usually covering wide ranges of topics in bullet format.