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Tech · Longevity · Markets · Opinions ※Enrico Rubboli, propr. ※Dubai, UAE
An introduction
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Enrico Rubboli is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Mintlayer, a Bitcoin-native sidechain for decentralised finance, RBB Lab, a production-grade software studio, and Sidq Finance, an on-chain Islamic finance certification body. He writes occasionally about health, protocols, capital, and building things that last.

He invests in early-stage companies at the intersection of tech, health, AI, and finance. He prefers founders who read more than they tweet, ship more than they post, and answer their own emails.

I · Writings
An index of essays, in reverse chronology
  1. July 3, 2026techBuild a Tiny LLM in Go, Part 1: Predicting the Next Letter→
    8 min read·read essay →
  2. Jul 2, 2026bitcoinThe Wallet They Call Unhosted→
    6 min read·read essay →
  3. June 26, 2026bitcoinFrom Hero to Villain? SBF, Saylor, and the Stress Test Markets Always Run→
    15 min read·read essay →
  4. June 25, 2026bitcoinLightning at Ten: The Tech Worked, the UX Didn't, the Market Moved On→
    18 min read·read essay →
  5. June 22, 2026aiStock to Flow Hits the Mac: How AI Ate Your RAM→
    18 min read·read essay →
See all writings →
II · Holdings
Companies founded, advised, & invested in
· San Marino ·
RBB Lab
Production-grade software studio delivering senior engineering expertise end-to-end for startups and companies.
Founder
· Dubai ·
Mintlayer
Bitcoin-native sidechain enabling trustless DeFi via atomic swaps, without wrapped tokens or intermediaries.
Co-founder
· Abu Dhabi ·
Sidq Finance
Independent certification body issuing on-chain attestations of Islamic financial compliance.
Co-founder
· Milan ·
Block Invest
Blockchain platform for financial institutions to tokenize and manage bonds, funds, and securities.
Investor
· London ·
Seed Set
Decentralised platform letting startups and SMEs issue digital securities for open equity investing.
Investor
· Milan ·
0var
Quantitative models and infrastructure for measuring and integrating on-chain yield into institutional finance.
Investor
III · The Library
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Why We Die
Venki Ramakrishnan
A Nobel laureate's exploration of why organisms age and die — and whether science can change that.
· in progress ·
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Artemis
Andy Weir
· in progress ·
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Outlive
Peter Attia
A proactive, evidence-based guide to extending lifespan and healthspan through exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional health.
· finished ·
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A lone astronaut wakes up with no memory far from Earth, humanity's last hope against a star-eating extinction threat.
· finished ·
All readings →
IV · Public works
mintlayer/mintlayer-core
Reference Rust node, wallet, and API server for the Mintlayer blockchain.
Rust★ 53
mintlayer/go-sdk
Official Go SDK: idiomatic clients for node, indexer, and wallet RPC, with embedded WASM crypto runtime.
Go★ 1
mintlayer/web-gui
TypeScript web interface for interacting with a Mintlayer node.
TypeScript
erubboli/zk-thunder
ZK Thunder — zero-knowledge infrastructure in Rust.
Rust★ 1
erubboli/go-tiny-llm
A character-level transformer language model built from scratch in Go, standard library only, for clarity over speed. Companion code for the 'Build a Tiny LLM in Go' series.
Go