"This is an evolving artwork" (v4)
OBJKT# 856725 minted on Teia
Every day, at 0:00 UTC, it looks at the Tezos blockchain and uses the hash of the first block of that day as a new random seed. It then randomly picks one of its collector names and displays it for the next 24 hours.
I have them write little love letters to each other, and I have a folder just for that.
Only half j/k, they can automatically access each other’s chat histories (.claude and .codex) but often I ask them to pass specific prompts to each other.
Just noticed that both @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI block the People’s Republic of China (and Macau and Hong Kong) from accessing their services, but not the “Republic of China”. 🤔
It’s like Alibaba deciding to block the whole of the US, but not Hawaii! 😂
Quote of the day:
“The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.”
It wasn’t for 4 digits, or even 4 bits.
It was literally the number 4.
A whole 3 bits of entropy 🤦♂️
Now all those posts by @MagicalTux make a lot more sense. These were not cheap copycats. They were “genuine” Ledgers that customers bought from Ledger. Yikes.
they didn’t hack ledger. they didn’t exploit the code. they BOUGHT the company selling you the device. $86 million gone
a company called CryptoBilis was an authorized ledger reseller in southeast asia. trusted. legit. sold ledgers for years
a random chinese company quietly bought CryptoBilis from its malaysian owner
made the original owner sign a confidentiality agreement. he couldn’t tell anyone the company was sold
same brand name. same website. same “authorized reseller” badge. but different people behind it now
the new owners started opening every ledger device before shipping
soldered a tiny spy chip onto the board inside. repackaged it. sealed the box. shipped it
the device looked normal. felt normal. worked normal
but the spy chip was silently capturing your private keys the moment you set it up
your seed phrase was sent to the attacker before you even finished writing it down
hundreds of wallets across ethereum tron and bitcoin. all drained
the guy who lost $5.3 million said “i did everything right. no leverage. no memecoins. i stored my funds on a hardware wallet like we’re all told to”
he was right. he did everything right
except his device had a parasite inside it that he couldn’t see
ledger has now told CryptoBilis to stop all sales. told recent buyers NOT to set up their devices
mark karpelès posted photos of the implant. normal board on top. spy chip below
the most dangerous attack in crypto this year wasn’t a line of code
it was a business acquisition
ktorn retweeted
Collected "Anything But Fate: Intuition Is the Voice in Your Head That Talks the Loudest", a new collaboration between @UnitedSaints and @_TransparentArt on TEIA.
Took me long enough to choose the right one, but I finally did it! The image and the music are perfect for me.
"ZIGGURATS #4323" by @mikeshinoda on @objktcom objkt.com/tokens/KT1PNcZQkJX…
Crypto’s Y2K moment, except we don’t know an exact deadline for doomsday.
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
ktorn retweeted
Is it Tuesday? Is it episode 104?
Get your tea ready for another Tezos Tea Tuesday! 🍵💖
Come by and share what you have been working on! ✨️
Set your reminder! 👇
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ktorn retweeted
Name of the week: @artonblockchain.
SNOWFRO. Bottom row, RAINERHOSCH on its left, KTORN on its right. Same price as everyone, same paint, same size letters.
The person behind Chromie Squiggle, between names you have never heard of yet. That is the whole wall.
Which name would you put next to his?























