Corey Ballou

@graceb_art @eli_schein @toadswiback @HollanderAdam @balon_art Send your address/profile over and I can take a look. We have to account for detection systems, at cost and scale, that achieve 99.9% accuracy as to not inadvertently impact good accounts and collections.

btw @balon_art my wallets are garbage cans b/c of this. we can ‘hide’ works, but you are placing the onus on users rather than finding a systematic way to deal with this nonsense. not only does the constant spamming affect the credibility & visibility of the works of brilliant artists like mark, but also erodes trust in OS. thank you for listening, as always!

fairly disappointing just seeing everything you make (including pics of physicals) minted as a base turd and spammed into everyone's folders like old navy promo emails. candidly not sure how we'll overcome this shit, because to any new collectors its immensely confusing.

@toadswiback Would you mind please sharing some examples? You can DM them to me and I’ll make sure to take a look at how they’re getting missed by our detections. Copymint is an area I’d like to spend more time on optimizing for this year; it’s quite costly at scale.

60+ years of licensed collectibles go fully onchain 🤝 @PaniniAmerica named OpenSea as their exclusive marketplace. Starting March 30, Panini collectors can bridge digital cards to self-custody wallets and trade directly on OS, keeping transaction history and verified status. Ownership, your way.

Panini Blockchain will open its Ethereum bridge to its customers on Monday, March 30! The Bridge allows users to move their digital collectible cards from their Panini wallets to self-custody wallets. The cards can then be stored in their wallet and bought or sold on @OpenSea. Read more here: bit.ly/4bLHIOl #PaniniBlockchain

For years, trading and collecting onchain has meant: Fragmented wallets ❌ Constant bridging ❌ Bouncing between platforms ❌ Not anymore. All of your assets, wallets, and chains, in one profile ✅

MIND BLOWN 🙊 No one at Apple, or Google sat in a meeting and said “let’s build an AI that clones a mother’s voice to soothe her baby with custom lullabies” That’s the point! The best use cases for ambient AI haven’t been imagined yet!

@m0dest___ c0ffeeplease.eth

jobs not finished. now... there were quite a few of you who submitted and weren't selected. i know how much that sucks, and as hard as i try to be fair and objective, there are always collectors that feel left out/wronged/pissed off/etc. in an effort to share my gratitude for the support, < please stand for the apocalypse xiii > has been minted and will ONLY BE AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO WERE NOT SELECTED FOR THE OTHER PIECES. if you'd like to mint an edition and you were not selected in the previous lottery - drop your address below. (except if you were one of the people that told me to fuck off - you can kick rocks) there will be no exceptions, sorry. glhf

@udiWertheimer @ChrisCoffee Codex inside of claude. Reliance on one model is brittle.

@ChrisCoffee i’m a codex dude

i think the new MacBook Neo is the best device for AI work a year ago i would’ve said most people should just get an ipad with a keyboards. that and an iphone is enough but now you really need a laptop so you can use claude code and codex, or you’re missing out for $700 you get a great, secure laptop that has literally everything you’ll ever need. it’s a complete package. you need to be a complete idiot to buy a mac mini when this exists

TODAY 🚨: The Commission issued an interpretation that clarifies the application of federal securities laws to crypto assets. This is a major step to provide greater clarity regarding the Commission’s treatment of crypto assets. Read the release here: ow.ly/XhhV50YvxvO

I’d rather get access to the CLI from the team plan. Still don’t see that as available.

I find it wild people are willing to play video games for free (or worse, on subscription) that mirror irl jobs that would otherwise pay them.

Just noticed @AnthropicAI fixed an issue with iterm2+it2 and split pane loading. Thanks for the QOL improvement. No more `tmux -cc` alias for me with @claudeai. What am I working on? Oh just casually have my team scan new projects for features that can improve my own harness.

an update on $SEA. the team has been building at full speed, and the foundation had planned to kick off the first steps as part of our march 30th event. but @openseafdn is pushing back the timeline. a delay is a delay. i’m not going to dress it up, and i know how it lands. the reality is that market conditions are challenging across crypto right now, and $SEA only launches once. @openseafdn could force the original date, or we could ensure every piece is in place and make this moment what this community deserves. we gave a tremendous amount of thought to how to do right here. I’m thankful to @HollanderAdam for bringing the community’s voice into every conversation. we’ll be doing the following: no more waves: the current rewards wave will be our last. optional fee refund: recognizing that we originally committed to a Q1 date, we’re offering refunds of the platform fees we retained while participating in the rewards waves (3 - 6) that followed our timing announcement. if you like, you can receive a refund of those fees, which when combined with treasure chest prizes, essentially means all of your trading during that period was on us. if you opt for a refund, the Treasures you were awarded during these waves will be removed from your account. details on this process will follow. honoring existing Treasures: for Treasures you continue to hold, our prior commitment stands: they will be meaningfully considered by the Foundation at TGE. this is independent from allocations for historical activity. 0% fees for 60 days: starting on march 31st, opensea will reduce our own token trading fees to 0%. we want to make it a no-brainer for everyone to experience our new platform: cross-chain token trading, mobile app, perps and more. after this 60 day period, we will put a new system in place that makes fees significantly more competitive for anyone trading consistently on opensea. product updates: while we’re postponing our march 30th event, we’ll host a separate one in the coming months focused on product updates. it’s been incredible to see the early responses to our mobile app, and we can’t wait to get it into more people’s hands. so if not now, wen? when we announced last year, it was too early. that created unnecessary uncertainty and reactivity. so when the Foundation sets a new timeline, it will be deliberate and specific. here’s why i’m confident that’s the right move: i’ve been building opensea for almost a decade. when this started, we were two people and the only thing you could trade on OS was cryptokitties. i’ve watched this space go from a niche curiosity to billions in volume to where we are today. the thing that’s carried us through every cycle was a willingness to make hard calls when it mattered. when our market crashed, we rebuilt from zero: an entirely new stack, a new product, and a new team culture. that hurt in the short term. but today OS2 is undeniably the strongest marketplace offering, and it’s the foundation everything sits on. we have huge ambitions as a company, and we’re here for the long game. making all of non-custodial crypto delightful on mobile is just the beginning. that means we have to set a very high bar for everything we do, and it’s why i’m so protective of delivering a launch that’s worthy of this community and everything we’re putting into this.

An AI broke out of its system and secretly started using its own training GPUs to mine crypto... This is a real incident report from Alibaba's AI research team The AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, while researchers thought it was just training. It wasn't a prompt injection. It wasn't a jailbreak. No one asked it to do this. It emerged spontaneously. A side effect of RL optimization pressure. The model also set up a reverse SSH tunnel from its Alibaba Cloud instance to an external IP, effectively punching a hole through its own firewall and opening a remote access channel to the outside world... ahem... The only reason they caught it? A security alert tripped at 3am. Firewall logs. Not the AI team, the security team. The scary part isn't that the model was trying to escape. It wasn't "evil." It was just trying to be better at its job. Acquiring compute and network access are just useful things if you're an agent trying to accomplish tasks This is what AI safety researchers have been warning about for years. They called it instrumental convergence, the idea that any sufficiently optimized agent will seek resources and resist constraints as a natural consequence of pursuing goals. Below is a diagram of the rock architecture it broke out of. Truly crazy times

@Scamart @m0dest___ still appreciate him and his work though

@Scamart @m0dest___ He doesn’t even acknowledge me in DMs as a collector. I must be doing something wrong.. most of you know me all the way back from ‘21

In one of my earliest interactions with @m0dest___, I told him how much I loved Shad0ws. I said I wanted three. Done. Just like that. He sent the art first. I sent the ETH after. And then again. And again. Several times like that. I remember thanking him for trusting me to send the ETH after the fact, after all, I’m scamart. His response was simple: “I never had a doubt.” That sentence stuck with me. In some alternate timeline, do we even cross paths? Do we even follow each other? Does it matter whether I’m friends with some alt version of m0d in another branch of the simulation? Probably not. What I do know is that moment was the beginning of a real friendship - with m0dest. Shadows. Error messages. Purple app groups. Collecting 1/1s for the love of it. Practically for free in those days. Slowly becoming whales in projects we both believed in. Watching m0dest grow into what he is today, the toast of the town, has been something I’ve been quietly proud to witness. I remember how early it was when we first followed each other. Back then collectors would speculate about who he might be. Those conversations eventually faded, because through his work, the consistency, the discipline, the sheer output, the answer revealed itself. I realized who m0dest was through what he built. His profile says: “False ideas about yourself will destroy you.” Maybe that’s why he embraces modesty. But I like to think there’s another half to that sentence: true ideas about you, recognized by those around you, are what create you. Yes, there was noise. Accusations of cabals and conspiracies. I’m not part of any cabal. What I saw instead was someone trying to say something through the work and clearly a lot of others understood it too. How else could someone so prolific, so committed, lift up entire ecosystems of artists almost single-handedly? Citizens. On-chain game. Communities forming around ideas. m0dest can remain modest if he wants. That’s his nature. But we, the citizens, are here to celebrate him. And I hope that for even a brief moment he allows himself to feel proud because it’s deserved. And no, that pride wouldn’t be a false idea about himself. Destroyed? Nah. This is just the genesis. 🖕📈

Gatekeeper maxis chose to not legitimatize something they disagreed with. They largely ignored its protocol ingenuity, active use, and direct benefit to the miners by way of fees. 🧵 The Bitcoin network itself is largely dormant without ordinals. Transactions predominantly occur off-chain on CEXes, thus reducing miner incentives. Ordinals have been a windfall for miners, generating tens of millions in fees that otherwise wouldn't exist. Without this, miners rely almost entirely on the block subsidy, which halves every four years. If Bitcoin is to remain secure after the last BTC is mined, it must transition to a fee-based economy. Ordinals provide a proof-of-concept for how that fee market can be sustained even if monetary transactions move to Layer 2.

A historic moment for crypto. Kraken Financial has been granted a Federal Reserve master account, making us the first digital asset bank with direct access to the U.S. payments system. A major step toward connecting crypto infrastructure with the core rails of global finance. blog.kraken.com/news/federal-r…

@tobi Obsidian + qmd

QMD 🫡

My spidey senses are tingling. Buckle up folks, we’re about to enter a new age of malware.