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ALT int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. }
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I think that's the first Ledger Stax I saw with an implant.
teapawt.net/wentrre/status/2109339…
Given the doxxing of home addresses from Ledger etc this is only going to increase.
How are my UK frens protecting themselves?
A British man and his pregnant wife were brutally attacked by 3 masked men who were being directed remotely by someone who knew about their cryptocurrency.
bbc.com/news/articles/c6eq84…
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First white-hat exploit on Ethereum: I unlocked 1,003.62
Ξ ($2,000,000) trapped in a 2016 ICO smart contract
for 9 years.
The 48 original investors can now claim their funds.
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Earlier today, a user attempted to buy AAVE using $50M USDT through the Aave interface.
Given the unusually large size of the single order, the Aave interface, like most trading interfaces, warned the user about extraordinary slippage and required confirmation via a checkbox. The user confirmed the warning on their mobile device and proceeded with the swap, accepting the high slippage, which ultimately resulted in receiving only 324 AAVE in return.
The transaction could not be moved forward without the user explicitly accepting the risk through the confirmation checkbox.
The CoW Swap routers functioned as intended, and the integration followed standard industry practices. However, while the user was able to proceed with the swap, the final outcome was clearly far from optimal.
Events like this do occur in DeFi, but the scale of this transaction was significantly larger than what is typically seen in the space.
We sympathize with the user and will try to make a contact with the user and we will return $600K in fees collected from the transaction.
The key takeaway is that while DeFi should remain open and permissionless, allowing users to perform transactions freely, there are additional guardrails the industry can build to better protect users. Our team will be investigating ways to improve these safeguards going forward.
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StackOverflow graph of questions asked per month.
Holy shit.
ALT A graph of stack overflow questions asked per month. It’s almost a perfect curve starting at 0 on the far left, in 2009, peaking in the middle in 2017 at about 200,000, then dropping down to near 0 today on the right.
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My close friend was robbed and extorted for seven figures.
Everything is gone — laundered and withdrawn through OTCs.
He’s not flashy. He barely posts online. He drives a RAV4 and lives in a normal neighborhood.
Yet somehow, someone knew.
He told me only a few family members and friends even knew he had crypto.
That’s it. No flexing. No signals. Just a quiet life.
And yet, they came for him.
He believes someone in his circle tipped them off.
A so-called “friend.”
Because no one just randomly picks a target like this.
He’s filed a report. The police are investigating. But the damage is done.
So from now on, listen carefully:
• Never share how much you made in crypto—not even with friends and family.
• If you ever mentioned you’re in crypto, say you lost it all. Or most of it.
• If needed, make up a business or a job. Keep it boring.
Crypto wealth is being targeted more than ever.
This isn’t the first story like this, and it won’t be the last.
Stay safe. Be paranoid. Trust less.
