Andy Chan

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Trump: you have 48 hours to comply Iran: nobody cares Trump: you have a week

What went wrong? Crypto has a 1-year user retention of 2-4% Out of 100 new users just 2–4 people come back within a year

Six weeks before a trader lost $50M in a single swap, CoW Protocol deleted the only system that could have caught it. CoW works like an auction. When you swap tokens, "solvers" compete to find you the best price. The idea is simple - competition protects the user. But what happens when only one solver shows up? Nothing protects you. That's exactly what happened on March 12. One solver took a $50M order and routed it through a tiny pool with $30K of liquidity. The user got back $36K worth of tokens instead of ~$50M. Here's the thing. CoW had a safety system for this. It was called SolverParticipationGuard - a module that tracked solver behavior and could block bad actors. 1,500+ lines of code. They never turned it on. It sat in "log-only" mode for months. And on January 30, instead of fixing it, they deleted it. The commit was tagged [TRIVIAL]. From their own PR description: "Given the lack of demand for this functionality, it doesn't make sense to keep it." Six weeks later, a solver did exactly what this system was designed to prevent - routed a massive order through a pool with no liquidity, with no one to stop it. No competition, no oversight, no guard. This wasn't a hack. Nobody broke in. The door was removed from the inside and labeled as spring cleaning.

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🚨 BREAKING: 🚨 President Trump is "strongly considering" PARDONING Julian Assange and Edward Snowden and appointing them as top intelligence analysts here in The United States to root out The Deep State within our government. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a long-time ally and advocate of both Assange and Snowden, is said to be spearheading this effort behind the scenes. These men are HEROES who were unjustly persecuted by the Obama administration for exposing our own government's assault on our most cherished Constitutional rights. Pardoning these two would be President Trump's greatest act of clemency yet and with the help of these freedom fighters, the hammer of justice is about to come raining down HARD on The Deep State! 💪🏻🔥🇺🇸

If you've eaten so much that it's not healthy to eat more and you don't want to eat more, and you still eat more anyway "to finish the food", then you are just using your mouth as a garbage can.

Who remembers Ampleforth? DeFi summer, the good old days

Steve Jobs email to Apple employees “Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”

Kinda brilliant troll happened on Bitcoin yesterday — If you're not aware, there's a certain crowd pushing for a proposal called BIP-110 to cut down on transaction "spam" like Ordinals and make it harder to embed harmful or illegal data on the blockchain. But others think the proposal amounts to censorship and wouldn't even stop people from adding images to Bitcoin... like the one below, which was added to the blockchain by Bitcoin dev Martin Habovštiak in a way that's fully compliant with BIP-110. The image shows Lucas Dashjr, one of BIP-110's main supporters, in tears.