AI-assisted intrusion: the Taiwan attack and crypto’s exposure
Its Ministry of Digital Affairs said the operation came from overseas and combined manual hacking with AI agents such as OpenClaw.
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Inside X’s recommendation algorithm: incentives for crypto accounts
I went through X’s newly open-sourced algorithm instead of relying on the flood of “algorithm hacks” already circulating.
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Solana: decentralisation and control · 12 Aug 2026
A few important points from today’s #Solana incident, although unfortunately this is not an airdrop, giveaway, memecoin, casino promo, some dumb capitalist extraction scheme, another dumbfuck scammer KOL campaign or any of the other…
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Solana’s near-finality event and validator hosting concentration
Since the intern running @solana is apparently busy with other things, here is the technical breakdown and everything I could verify about today’s near-finality event on #Solana.
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Solana: paid promotion · 12 Aug 2026
A routing failure at TeraSwitch knocked 28.83% of all staked SOL offline at once. Once delinquent stake crosses roughly 33.34%, Solana can no longer finalize blocks.
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Reply-bot phishing: why blocking one account is not enough
Some of you have probably noticed this already: under certain accounts, almost every crypto-related tweet gets one of these bot replies within seconds.
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A forensic watchlist of Solana copy-trading wallets
I went through 30 of the currently top-ranked Solana KOL/trader wallets and built a forensic copy-trading watchlist.
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FOMO: examining the execution layer behind the interface
The more I look at @fomo, the less interested I am in the glossy growth story and the more interested I am in the execution architecture underneath it.
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The Solana bot economy: who gets paid before the retail trade?
The Solana bot economy: who gets paid before the retail trade?. Dated original source, with context and links.
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Coldcard: firmware history, signatures and review questions
There are too many details here that deserve a closer look: the firmware vulnerability itself, the "switck" identity, Peter D. Gray / @DocHex, the GPG signatures linking the accounts, the integration of "libngu", the development history, and…
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MiCA authorisation: checking the legal entity behind an exchange
It does, however, mean that a specific European legal entity has passed an authorisation process and is subject to regulatory supervision, governance rules, prudential safeguards, client-asset protection requirements, complaints procedures,…
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Crypto’s attention economy and the cost to useful work
Crypto is starving while directing an absurd share of its attention toward disposable tokens, manufactured narratives and products designed to monetize impulse before anyone has time to ask what they actually bought.
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BitMart withdrawals: missing transaction IDs and support disputes
You are trapping users behind frozen withdrawals, cancelled transactions, missing TXIDs and dead support while publicly pretending their money remains accessible.
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Tokenisation: the asset, the claim and the marketing
I want to take a closer look at the tokenization hype and explain why most of what is being marketed as “tokenization” in this space is completely pointless garbage.
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KOL credibility as an inventory to monetise
They do not write code, ship products, trace funds, publish verifiable research or accept responsibility when their followers get destroyed.
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An archive of centralised exchange closures
BitMart: January 31, 2027 - BitMEX: September 23, 2026 - AscendEX: July 1, 2026 - Knaken: June 2026 - March 31, 2026 - ProBit Global: February 26, 2026 - OceanEx: December 5, 2025 - Payeer Exchange: October 23, 2025 - Felixo: July 18, 2025 -…
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Compromised public X accounts used to promote crypto scams
1/2 This is my (crazy!) list of high-profile X accounts that were compromised and then used to promote memecoins, fraudulent tokens or related crypto scams.
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Romance and investment scams: the relationship before the transfer
Learn how scams work and study their methods, so you can move through life armed with knowledge instead of blind trust!
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Onchain and exchange volume: what can actually be compared
However, the claim that DEXs already represent more than 35% of all crypto trading volume is misleading, or depends heavily on the selected dates, provider and measurement method.
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Tate-linked token promotions and legal allegations: July 2026 archive
Here is the full list of charges against the Tate brothers, along with some of the crypto scams they promoted.
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Malware distributed through Steam: the July 2026 report
The FBI has arrested 21-year-old Zyaire Wilkins over an alleged operation that distributed malware through video games.
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BitShine: the reported Taiwan sentencing
Taiwan’s Shilin District Court has sentenced the man behind the BitShine crypto exchange, identified by the surname Shih, to 22 years in prison for running a large-scale fraud and money-laundering operation disguised as a legitimate…
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A dedicated iPhone and a hardware wallet have different trust boundaries
Calling every hardware wallet “garbage” because Ledger Live has poor UX confuses the frontend with the security boundary.
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What Bubblemaps and token scanners cannot establish
The problem is that many traders treat a colourful cluster or a green security score as the result of an investigation, when it is merely the starting point.
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