I've only used mastodon for a week. My account just got suspended for:
"Being a capitalist"
I am not sure what that means. But I guess I can fix it by sending some moneros to the server owner?
The Fediverse is not very welcoming.
A man who stole $10B,
@SBF_FTX
just got interviewed, portrayed almost as a victim and got an applause at the end
Still free and fine.
Aaron Swartz, who downloaded academic journals to share with the world got $1m in fines and 35 yrs in prison. This lead him to take his own life
⌛️7 years ago on 30/07/2015, we launched
#ethereum
from an office in
#Berlin
Waldemarstraße 37A.
🦄What was started by this ragtag band of devs from around the world has now grown to a network securing more than $250 billions in value.
🎂Happy birthday ethereum!
It was 8 years ago today, we launched
#ethereum
from a small office in Waldemarstraße 37A in Berlin
What a journey its been since then?
It became the most widely used cryptocurrency network, switched to PoS and spawned many alt-L1s and L2s
🦄Excited for what the future brings!
Our brother
@alex_pertsev
has been in prison for 103 days.
Today a Dutch court, labeling him a flight risk keeps denying him a fair trial and asked to be kept in prison until 2023/02/20.
Another 90 days. In total 193 days in prison without a trial for ... writing
#opensource
A really serious issue is currently unfolding across most hosted crypto frontends.
There is a supply attack on a popular connector, the
@Ledger
connect-kit.
It has been infected with a drainer, which you can confirm by deobfuscating the code.
Be extra vigilant!
I don't understand the American justice system.
Steal ~10$B and cause people to kill themselves -> 25 years
Download academic journals from MIT to share with the world -> 2 counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the CFAA (~max sentence 35 years).
Remember Aaron Swartz
Does any mastodon expert know how to transfer you account if it gets suspended? I thought the option to move was always there.
So with account suspension and data deletion, basically the server owner can unilaterally decide to destroy user's account or hold them hostage?
Oh this is getting better. I can't even move my account to another server.
By suspending the account on the server the option to move it does not appear. I am stuck.
Sad to see Gitcoin focus on such a distorted US-centric view of the world.
"reflect the diversity of the community they serve" sounds as arbitrary as rules can go
Instead of this, how about building teams and projects where all are welcome based on their merit and their skill?
✨In order to have been eligible, 50% of the project’s team must reflect the diversity of the community they serve with a particular emphasis on women, Black, Indigenous, People Of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
This day, six years ago, I was woken up by a phone call from
@thegrifft
.
"Dude wake up, check the chain. The DAO is being drained".
I frantically had to wake up, splash water in my face and figure out what the heck was going on.
So
@feeswtf
done their airdrop and it went exactly as expected.
It's a poorly executed ponzi to take your precious ETH away from you.
Let's have a closer look 👇
✍️Now that the worse is behind us but while everyone's attention is still on the mattter I am writing a bit of a longer post on this industry's architecture and security practises.
@Ledger
messed up badly. Having practically no opsec, no proper credential management, and not…
Happy 5th birthday to
#ethereum
!
I will never forget the day we launched the
#ethereum
network from the small
#EthDev
office in Waldermarstr.
Some 📸 from that day for the OGs to reminisce and the newer guys to learn 👇
Do not accept projects "opensource washing" their work.
BSL is not opensource and uniswap v4 was released with a BSL license.
Therefore uniswap v4 is not
#opensource
Building in public is opensource. But getting the public to build for you without giving back is what BSL does
@Uniswap
I am sorry but I am gonna call bull here.
Please use proper terminology as this is insulting to projects actually building
#opensource
software.
Uniswap v4 is not opensource. The linked repo (v4 periphery) is, but the OP says "opensourced v4".
‼️ The wormhole network is down for maintenance as we look into a potential exploit.
📢 We will provide updates here as soon as we have them.
🙏 Thank you for your patience.
@elonmusk
Why would you do that? There is lots of legends who are no longer with us.
Their twitter history is something important enough to preserve imo.
Perhaps you can keep it somewhere separate instead of purging?
The bankruptcy of
@FTX_Official
and
@AlamedaResearch
ripples far. We have not seen all dominoes fall.
For example
@solana
wrapped assets were custodied by them. That means they are no longer redeemable and will probably go to 0.
They already dropped 76% within an hour 😐
@Han_Siebo
It's not decentralized, it's federated.
You choose a server to create an account in.
That server has absolute control over your account and your experience.
ARE YOU GUYS INSANE?
Why would you build what should be the most secure-consious library in the world to "load from CDN" for convenience without having users to wait for dapps to update?
So let me get this straight.
With one hand
@GaryGensler
and the
@SECGov
spent US tax payer money to crash and punish an honest project like
@LBRYcom
?
While with the other they were meeting with the criminal
@SBF_FTX
and co to discuss regulatory strategy?
h/t
@digitalassetbuy
increasingly looking like that while the SEC had a team of staff working to crush us, a tiny actor and one of the actual honest ones, FTX was stealing billions and
@GaryGensler
was taking the time to personally meet with them
it's all just so rotten
MEV Bots have been slaughtering retail users via sandwiching for years. Nobody blacklists them.
Someone dare fool a MEV bot and give them a taste of their own medicine and they get blacklisted.
Makes total sense.
(yes probably legal proceedings come behind this but still...)
@TerribleMaps
It makes sense if you learn about it. It's not like the rest where you would say "Its greek to me. "It's railway station to me".
It wants to show the feeling of, going to a new place and only word you understand is the sign for "railway station".
"Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof".
Hey
@AlchemyPlatform
I just realized you guys are in
@optimismFND
RPGF3
No doubt you made some nice contributions to the community but since you've raised more than half a billion dollars and the entire RPGF round is $30m $OP think you can leave a few crumbles to the small guys?
@wartranslated
How is this supposed to decide the fate of Russia? Don't they see how ridiculous they sound when they say big words like this and then go out and say nothing of importance?
Also what did Lukashenka say? Wasn't he supposed to also give some announcement?
@BetterMarkets
@SECGov
You know what? Jog off you little gremlins, labeling an entire industry of hard working honest people as criminals, gamblers, predators and all that.
Fade into irrelevance where you belong.
They ended up returning the funds that got snacked via MEV:
Whoever the operator of c0ffeebabe.eth is you are a legend.
Good actors like this need recognition in our space.
Thank you for being awesome, whoever you are 🫡
Seems like this is a controversial opinion but ...
Not all money is good money, and sometimes it absolutely is best to stay poor and not take the money than get in bed with certain people.
Who you work with and who you take money from says a lot more about you than you think
@mozilla
A pity that you guys fall victim to the hysteria and hate on crypto that is seen around lately.
Had just started using firefox again to allow for some diversity against chrome's engine but am switching back after seeing this.
I find what
@OpenAI
is building interesting.
But I do have a serious beef with the name.
OpenAI is not open.
Started as a non-profit, but once
@elonmusk
left, and the company became for-profit the name should also change
Proprietary software don't get to call thesmelves open.
Thank you
@SecBlinken
for deleting the tweet containing false accusations against the developers of
#ethereum
's
@TornadoCash
.
A public apology for accusing them to be a DPRK-state sponsored hacking group without providing any evidence would also be highly appreciated.
@Reuters
I am no fan of Erdogan. But if you notice he is handing it out only to children. As he has done in many other times in the past and is customary in Turkey to give "pocket money" to celebrate certain occasions.
1/X:The way this entire YAM thing unfolded, how it was shilled by many in the
#ethereum
community, how security was thrown out of the window due to short-term greed has really angered me.
I wrote a post about it and how we need to build sustainable
#DeFi
:
Crypto is not anonymous like cash.
When you pay via crypto from an account, if that account is associated with your name what you give is not just a name.
It's the entire transaction history of all connected accounts and the ability to see all future balances and transactions
People have asked me why don't I write smart contracts anymore and just study/audit them.
This is one of the reasons. Know it all "influencers" attacking people after the fact with extreme hindsight bias and the sole purpose of engagement farming.
It seems that
@alex_pertsev
will finally be able to go home in a week
That means that after 259 days of imprisonment without a trial he will be able to sleep in his own bed and see his wife
He will be able to work on his defense for the trial that will start on the 24th of May
The article indicating that Toby Hoenisch, is the DAO hacker is finally out:
I was waiting for this for a long time.
$ETC ->
@ShapeShift_io
-> $BTC ->
@wasabiwallet
coinjoin -> 4 exchanges -> convert to GRIN -> withdraw to their node.
Caught in 4K💀
It's horrifying to read the
@deversifi
post-mortem on the ~$23m gas fee transaction.
The fact that this can happen shows how broken crypto UX and priorities are.
- JS library bug at error handling of decimal gas values
- H/W wallet display of fee as hex
I find it quite weird how all of CT was up in arms when it came to inclusion of LGBT people
But very few seem to care about exclusion of an entire people. Concensys, POAP, Gitcoin have blocked Farsi speaking communities.
🤔Guess racism in web3 is bad unless it's state imposed?
"Stealing is stealing where you steal data or dollars" said
@USAttyOrtiz
while pursuing 35yrs prison sentence for Aaron.
Accused of overreach, overzealous prosecuting they did not budge. Once he took his own life, Ortiz ofc backtracked saying they would not have gone for full 35
It seems that
@gitcoin
mistakenly sent ~521k $GTC (~$471k) to the token address instead of funding a workstream address
That is really sad to see. Effectively burning half a million $
How come none of the voter/signer noticed? Crypto UX is sadly really broken if this can happen
To the well funded projects DMing me with excuses in private, please keep the convo public and explain why you think it's okay when your revenue/funding/capital is bigger than the entire RPGF round to participate and deny funding from 100s of projects that rely on it to survive.
You either need to be an idiot or outright malicious to tweet out potential vulnerabilities
@BlockSecTeam
while there is an ongoing incident
Adding screenshots and asking the potential victim to DM you? IN A PUBLIC TWEET?
I wont even quote your tweet/s but what the actual fuck?
.
@CelsiusNetwork
knowingly doxxed ALL their users by posting in a public hearing (link: ) all data for deposits/withdrawals including name/address, time and amounts.
That means that all Celsius user addresses are now doxxed.
Still using centralized apps?
6 years ago, on this very day a phone call from
@thegrifft
woke me up.
"The DAO" was being drained.
The events that lead to the
#ethereum
hard fork and our lengthy whitehack activity had just began.
Read more about it in
@laurashin
's the cryptopians:
A memecoin chain is raising a second round, of $100M.
Infra huh?
Meanwhile opensource projects are still struggling to survive.
Gotta love this industry.
This is the kind of people who shill you their bags.
1. Make completely false claims regarding
#ethereum
developer activity
2.
@q9fmz
points out it's missing activity from a gazillion repos
3.
@jemenger
calls her out
She says she doesn't need to make sure her facts are straight
@jemenger
i present information as i see fit, you think for yourself. if i care to get every footnote perfect i'd post to an academic journal not twitter
Conclusion:
FOR HEAVENS SAKE PEOPLE DONT BE STUPID.
DO NOT CONTRIBUTE IN PERPETUATING THIS FIELD AS A BREEDING GROUND FOR SCAMS AND PONZIS.
USE YOUR BRAIN. DO NOT SUPPORT SCAMMERS.
HEED THE WARNINGS OF OGs IN THE SPACE.
SUPPORT PROJECTS THAT BRING VALUE TO THE SPACE.
FIN🔚
🇺🇸🦅SEC Business plan.
- 🇺🇸Our door is open. Come and talk to us.
- 🐙So there is this staking thing we would like to offer, what should we do?
- 🇺🇸Ah, we can not provide guidance on this at this time.
- 🐙Opens staking service
-🇺🇸 HAH! Busted. That will be $30m.
Now please tell me. Really tell me.
How on earth can you put so much pressure, overreach and "send a message" for a kid who just downloaded academic papers.
And for
@SBF_FTX
that pathological liar who stole $10B interview him, applaud him, write puff pieces about him?
HOW?
Hey
@graphprotocol
I just realized you guys are in
@optimismFND
RPGF3
No doubt you made some nice contributions to the community but since you've raised more than 270 million dollars and the entire RPGF round is $30m $OP think you can leave a few crumbles to the small guys?
Hey
@AlchemyPlatform
I just realized you guys are in
@optimismFND
RPGF3
No doubt you made some nice contributions to the community but since you've raised more than half a billion dollars and the entire RPGF round is $30m $OP think you can leave a few crumbles to the small guys?
👨💻Spent ~30 mins in 1-1 chat debugging a users
@rotkiapp
problem
Solved. User thanks me. Then complains they can't switch to dark mode. It needs premium.
Politely explain we need to pay devs + premium is only ~11€/mo
Tells me all rotki should be free
Their net worth is >$20m
I read about
@jpmorgan
's dissapointment towards Ethereum.
If you actually read the "report" you will see the analyst's name. Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou
Take a look at some of their past work. The image on the left is from 2022, with my own commentary added
Right is the new report
We are mad at the US sanctioning
@TornadoCash
addresses.
Wait till Europe, the "leader in regulation" takes a sniff of this.
Can already see them planning a package to outdo the Americans
Unhosted wallet touching tornado? Banned.
Any link to tornado? Banned.
Sky is the limit!
Let's bring
#ethereum
@EFDevcon
to Thessaloniki,
#Greece
🇬🇷
- Strategic position
- Beautiful location
- Sufficiently equipped for conferences
- Good weather
- Vibrant crypto community
- OMG THE FOOD YES
- Hospitable people
- Need I go on ...?
There is public shaming, but there is also public praising.
I want to give a huge kudos to
@safe
, for deciding not to participate in RPGF3 (they did in round 2 though they raised $100m)
Their contracts are 100% a public good and are being used by all of us!
Despite that they…
TL;DR:
1. Move the one thing that everybody uses to understand what happens onchain, the contract log data, off-chain
2. To a closed source indexer
3. Centrally hosted and queried via a (for now) free API
4. Company raises $9M
Doesn't take a genius to see where this is going.
@SBF_FTX
You utilised user funds. That's a crime on its own
That aside how the hell can a mislabeling lead to not only playing with user funds but doing so with 1.7x leverage?
How could you go in front of Congress and say all these things about user funds and transparency?
Unforgivable
I hope you guys realize that upgrading contracts to rug an attacker also means you can upgrade contracts to rug the user.
Upgradable contracts means trusting a multisig.
Which is fine ofc, so long as that is made clear to the user.
Someone needs to tell you all that and it may as well be me.
I have had it with the hyper competitive grinding culture! It's damaging the younger generation and is causing unnecessary burn out in the people we need to build in our field in the next 30 years.
You can build stuff…
Stop using the term "unhosted" wallet.
We already have a term for that. It's called a wallet. For hosted wallets we actually have a term. It's called a CEX - Centralized Exchange account.
What's next? Calling cars: land ships?