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From: Jeremy Rubin Sent: Friday, December 9, 2016 1:01 AM To: jeffrey E. Subject: Renewing Contract for 2017 Hi Jeffrey, Wanted to discuss renewing my contract for 2017. I'm trying to plan m= financials to a certain degree for the next year before this tax year clo=es. Having a regular source of income with loose requirements =as been very useful for me to be able to apportion my time into deep thoug=t in the space without worrying about immediate returns. But it would also=be good, perhaps, to discuss if I'm meeting your expectations, and wha= topics you're interested in through 2017 / if you'd want to see m=re outputs from me directly (some kind of quarterly report/meeting or some=hing?). For instance, l=haven't communicated any of this to you, but I've spent the last m=nth or so - <=div>doing research on some new smart contracting primitive constructionsq=iv> - =80 attempting to mathematically formalize parts of bitcoin programs - =E2 preparing educational materials on Bitcoin conti=uing my work on open source bitcoin software investigating sec=rity properties of deep learning algorithms developing a couple of idea= for potentially interesting financial services around liquidity for bitcoin contracts -=s poke at the Digital Garage SF conference on bitcoin development In the next month or so I will be continuing the abo=e as well as preparing for: -C oming to MIT to help with J=i's class (potentially) giving an invited talk at Stanford=#39;s Blockchai= Protocol Analysis and Security Engineering conference Going to Japan to help =each a course to get more Japanese bitcoin developers <=r> Best, Jeremy <=iv> @JeremyRubin <https:=/twitter.com/JeremyRubin> EFTA_R1_00111601 EFTA01787803