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+title: Ten Years of TrueBlocks Articles
+date: 2026-01-09
+description: A comprehensive index of 94 articles by Thomas Jay Rush documenting Ethereum's evolution from 2016 to 2025, covering The DAO, data indexing, and decentralized infrastructure.
+embed:
+  url: https://tjayrush.medium.com/ten-years-of-trueblocks-articles-2016-2026-46420a3189ee
+  site: medium.com
+---
+
+In January 2026, Thomas Jay Rush published an index of 94 articles written over nearly ten years (May 2016 — December 2025), documenting his work building Ethereum data infrastructure through QuickBlocks and later TrueBlocks.
+
+The articles span six periods:
+
+## Period 1: The DAO Era (2016)
+
+10 articles covering The DAO attack, smart contract security, and immutability debates.
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/The-DAO-s-First-Big-Decision-a71efe6c662a"
+  title="The DAO's First Big Decision"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Smart-Contracts-are-Immutable---That-s-Amazing-and-It-Sucks-e0fbc7b0ec16"
+  title="Smart Contracts are Immutable — That's Amazing…and It Sucks"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Downloading-the-DAO-a004258c9b5f"
+  title="Downloading the DAO"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/A-Eulogy-for-The-DAO-74a55b9afd92"
+  title="A Eulogy for The DAO"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+## Period 2: Early Ethereum Infrastructure (2017)
+
+11 articles on block production, the difficulty bomb, and early data indexing concepts, including the announcement of QuickBlocks.
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Accounting-for-the-Revolution--8822b28ccc16"
+  title="Accounting for the Revolution™"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Announcing-QuickBlocks--861c4f0c6a52"
+  title="Announcing QuickBlocks®"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+## Period 3: QuickBlocks Development (2018–2019)
+
+15 articles on building local-first Ethereum data tools, address indexing, and decentralization philosophy.
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Defeating-the-Ethereum-DDos-Attacks-d3d773a9a063"
+  title="Defeating the Ethereum DDos Attacks"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Indexing-Addresses-on-the-Ethereum-Blockchain-5c0806161eb9"
+  title="Indexing Addresses on the Ethereum Blockchain"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+## Period 4: TrueBlocks Foundation (2020–2021)
+
+17 articles covering the transition from QuickBlocks to TrueBlocks, Ethereum issuance analysis, and archive node infrastructure.
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/How-Accurate-is-EtherScan--83dab12eeedd"
+  title="How Accurate is EtherScan?"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Building-Your-Own-Ethereum-Archive-Node-72c014affc09"
+  title="Building Your Own Ethereum Archive Node"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+## Period 5: TrueBlocks Maturity (2022–2023)
+
+21 articles on EF grant funding, competitive analysis, tutorial recipes, and AI experiments.
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/TrueBlocks-welcomes-an-Ethereum-Foundation-Grant-2b8224afb44"
+  title="TrueBlocks welcomes an Ethereum Foundation Grant"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Why-We-Built-TrueBlocks-4f8ffb2e6d3d"
+  title="Why We Built TrueBlocks"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+## Period 6: MiniDapps & Modern Era (2024–2025)
+
+20 articles on MiniDapps development, local-first architecture, and philosophical reflections.
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Mist-II---Revenge-of-the-Nerds-2ffc575c834d"
+  title="Mist II — Revenge of the Nerds"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+{% include content-embed.html
+  url="https://medium.com/@tjayrush/Final-Report-for-EF-Grant-FY24-1558---TrueBlocks-MiniDapps-79b53f45bfa3"
+  title="Final Report for EF Grant FY24–1558 — TrueBlocks MiniDapps"
+  author="Thomas Jay Rush"
+  site="Medium"
+%}
+
+The full index of all 94 articles is available in Rush's compilation post linked above.