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@benjii

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benjii@benjii·
just imagine: “satoshi himself can’t use bitcoin” yea: re-read he cant he owns 1M Bitcoin and yet he cant use them what a life coz any single transaction he tries to make is def gon be recorded onchain any move is open to us all. so now tell me, why not choose zcash? provided it gives you privacy- zec strongly protects you from surveillance dystopia yep: zec is the solution. anyways this is just the start
Naval@naval

Satoshi himself can’t use Bitcoin.

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threadguy@notthreadguy·
holy tbpn just got acquired by openai wow we are actually so right
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niko@saintniko·
i paid 330 vbucks for this
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ThePrimeagen
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen·
Hey, you got a cool project that you are building? Link it I want to yap about cool projects
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۟@MINHxDYNASTY·
true wealth isn’t millions of dollars it’s the freedom and control of time, energy, and peace
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۟@MINHxDYNASTY·
if you have $100,000k to invest right now, would you do crypto or pokemon/one piece slabs?
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Lou3e@lou3ee·
there’s nothing like some poker at safe house []
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benjii@benjii·
@sama i just left my space not quite long and this:)… interesting
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Sam Altman
Sam Altman@sama·
TBPN is my favorite tech show. We want them to keep that going and for them to do what they do so well. I don't expect them to go any easier on us, am sure I'll do my part to help enable that with occasional stupid decisions.
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benjii@benjii·
yeah this lands right, drake’s the ultrasound[dot]money guy, not some rando doomer chasing clicks. if he’s out here moving his q-day odds because of that fresh google paper, its not nothing. btc’s ecDSA setup is exposed on reused pubs, no cap. but “permanently broken” feels like max fud when a soft fork to lattice or hash-based sigs is on the table and the network’s moved mountains before. still… think the guy should be held captive till he helps ship the fix? 😂 solid callout either way.
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benjii@benjii·
100%… bootstrapped teams trying to 1:1 copy Kalshi or Polymarket are speed-running their own funeral the things that actually have PMF right now aren’t another shiny front-end with a big marketing budget. its the unsexy infrastructure that people are quietly begging for: - dead-simple Telegram and Discord bots so normies can create and bet on markets in 15 seconds without ever touching a wallet. the friction of wallet setup alone is killing adoption that should already be happening. - an AI co-pilot that scans X and live news feeds, auto-suggests high conviction markets, and surfaces edge with your own thesis baked in. the signal is already out there - nobody’s packaging it cleanly yet. - yield-bearing prediction shares. stake your conviction and actually earn while you wait for resolution. make holding a position feel productive, not just speculative. - a creator reputation layer - fully on-chain track record of accurate markets so the best hosts attract instant liquidity and the ecosystem self-selects toward quality over time. we’ve all watched 47 clones launch with oversized marketing budgets and flatline in 60 days. the ones that survive wont be the ones who out-spent the VCs - they’ll be the ones who made the whole ecosystem easier, faster, and more fun to participate in. whats the single highest-leverage picks and shovels play you’d tell a solo founder to go all-in on right now Voh?
voh@vohvohh

Everyone trying to compete with Kalshi or Polymarket is in rabbit race to 0 Bootstrapped prediction markets with no differentiators are going to fizzle out as fast as they pop up If you’re passionate about building in the prediction space, build something that’s complimentary to existing products, or build something completely new Going head to head with massively funded companies that have a larger yearly marketing budget than most companies raise in a lifetime is setting yourself up for failure Interesting ways builders can position themselves in the prediction space: > Trading bots and tools > Specialized products and services > Whitelabel and custom solutions > API development and integration > Net new markets > Anything enhancing the user experience > Signals and automated research > Global differentiated markets > Yield earnings opportunities > Gamified experiences

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benjii@benjii·
yesterday (April 1, 2026) wasn’t a joke. Drift Protocol one of Solana’s biggest perpetuals DEXes, sitting on hundreds of millions in TVL got drained for an estimated $200–285M in one of the largest on-chain exploits we’ve seen this year. the team suspended deposits and withdrawals immediately and is working with security firms. Funds were moved fast: swapped on Jupiter, bridged to Ethereum, and largely converted to ETH. The DRIFT token got wrecked in the process. but here’s what actually happened, and why this incident is bigger than just another “DeFi hack.” the attack in plain English (the mechanics, not the memes): - the attacker spent weeks preparing: minted ~750 million units of a completely fake token called CarbonVote Token (CVT). - the created a tiny Raydium pool with just $500 in liquidity to manufacture a fake ~$1 price, then wash-traded it to build a believable on-chain price history that oracles would pick up. - using a compromised Drift admin key, they listed CVT as valid collateral on the protocol. - In the same window, they cranked withdrawal guards to absurd levels (like 500 trillion USDC). - then, in 31 transactions over just 12 minutes, they deposited hundreds of millions in fake collateral, borrowed against it, and drained real assets from multiple vaults (USDC, SOL, JLP, etc.). - they even came back a couple hours later for a second bite. nobody noticed for nearly an hour. classic “move fast, drain everything” playbook. the root cause wasn’t some fancy smart-contract zero-day. it was privileged access plus zero safeguards on that access. now the part that actually matters: Drift was never truly DeFi. this wasn’t “code is law” getting exploited. this was a protocol that still had centralized choke points, and those choke points got compromised. here are the solidified reasons this event proves Drift (and a lot of what gets called “DeFi” these days) isn’t decentralized finance in any meaningful sense: 1. admin keys with god-mode power One (compromised) admin key could list arbitrary assets as collateral and instantly disable every withdrawal protection. thats not decentralized governance. its a backdoor dressed up as “protocol management.” 2. 2-of-5 multisig with 0-second timelock $200M+ in user funds protected by two signatures and zero delay. No on-chain vote. No 24/48-hour waiting period. No community veto. it was just two keys and boom… reality changes. it’s ceDeFi, not DeFi. 3. Oracle + collateral listing still required trusted intervention the fake token needed an admin to bless it as valid collateral. In real DeFi, either the system is fully permissionless (anyone can permissionlessly add liquidity and markets with market forces deciding) or changes go through slow, transparent, decentralized processes. Here, a single point of trust was the entire attack surface. 4. the protocol could be altered in real time by a privileged actor True DeFi protocols aim for immutability or extremely high-friction upgrades. Drift’s design still relied on off-chain or semi-centralized controls that a key compromise instantly weaponized. when the “decentralized” part fails because of human/key risk, it’s not decentralized. 5. user funds were effectively custodied behind a multisig wall you couldn’t just interact with immutable contracts. the protocol’s risk engine, listing logic, and guardrails all sat behind admin privileges. when those failed, user money vanished. thats the exact opposite of “not your keys, not your coins” at the protocol level. Look, im not here to bury the entire Solana ecosystem or say every perp DEX is a scam. Drift had real volume, real innovation in low-latency trading, and real users. but calling it “DeFi” while it still operated with these centralized levers was always marketing over substance. yesterday was the proof.
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Benji Taylor@benjitaylor·
“I’ll figure it out” has gotten me further than any plan I’ve ever made
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AzFlin 🌎@AzFlin·
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OrdinalGuyOG@OrdinalGuyOG·
@benjii Explain the utility brother dont keep making the same boring post. Also include a cool graphic use ai if needs be
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Andrea 🐝@AndreaMYellie·
@benjii No promises yet my guy, but I love a good pitch and the hustle. Shoot your shot.
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benjii@benjii·
B00m @AndreaMYellie accepted, now let’s get this started - sponsored by Beeziee.
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