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A few good books worth reading: - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - a classic that celebrates builders. Once you read it, you’ll notice the same characters and events taking place today. - The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio - great for understanding how civilizations rise and fall and how crypto can help create better countries. - From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yu (founder of Singapore) - talks about building a new country, worth reading for understanding nation-building.

🚨🇫🇷 1 agression crypto tous les 5 jours en France depuis début 2026. Ça ne peut plus durer. Avec notre équipe, on a décidé de passer à l'action. Le constat est glaçant 👇 Plus de 314 agressions liées à la crypto recensées dans le monde, dont 49 rien qu'en France. Sur un an, ces agressions ont augmenté de 13 % à l'échelle mondiale. En France, elles ont été multipliées par 8. On ne peut plus fermer les yeux. C'est pourquoi on lance aujourd'hui une carte interactive qui recense les agressions crypto dans le monde en temps réel. Notre objectif est triple : - Prendre conscience collectivement de l'ampleur du problème - Alerter les pouvoirs publics sur l'urgence d'agir - Protéger la communauté crypto française 🎯Pour nous aider à faire bouger les choses, c'est simple: 1. Rendez-vous sur la carte (lien en commentaire) 2. Indiquez votre sentiment d'insécurité 3. Partagez la carte autour de vous

Me when someone asks "wen alt season"? 🤬😤👿

En effet ! Il faut aussi faire attention à la plateforme qu’on utilise. Si les fonds de la plateforme sont ségrégués de celles de ses utilisateurs, alors ces derniers sont protégés. C’est le cas de SwissBorg en l’occurrence mais sur un exchange type Binance non (mais c’est structurellement normal je précise). Après il y a le souci des scams et là aussi il y a des mesures comme des notifications au sein de ton compte qui te dise si l’appel que tu reçois vient de la plateforme ou non.

@FreepanO @FranceCryptos @swissborg Le soucis c'est ça peut être la plateforme un jour aussi qui part avec vos fonds ou se fait hacker... C'est une bonne idée de swissborg tout de même.

🚨🇫🇷 Nouveau braquage crypto en France : une famille séquestrée trois heures à Ploudalmézeau (Finistère), 700 000 € extorqués en cryptomonnaies. Ce lundi 20 avril 2026 peu avant 9h, 2 individus cagoulés et armés d'un pistolet automatique se sont introduits dans un pavillon des hameaux de Keruscat. Dans la maison se trouvaient une mère, ses deux jeunes enfants et les deux grands-parents. Les trois adultes ont été entravés puis maintenus au sol. Les assaillants, visiblement renseignés sur le patrimoine numérique de la famille, ont exigé les identifiants du wallet sous la menace explicite d'une mutilation. La mère a fini par céder. Le transfert de 700 000 € a été exécuté depuis le domicile. Les braqueurs se sont enfuis vers 12h30 après l'intervention d'un voisin, au volant d'un véhicule pris à la famille et retrouvé abandonné à Brest le soir même. La section de recherches de la gendarmerie de Rennes est saisie, avec l'appui d'un office central dédié à la criminalité organisée. Aucune interpellation pour le moment. Cette situation ne peut plus durer...

Bitcoin is above $79k! This is the highest level since early Feb. Finally something for CT to celebrate. All 10 of us that remain.

@benjamincowen And what do we do if everyone calls you a genius? 😉

Guess what stage we are at

Thank you @CML_LDN London for hosting yet another fantastic event. Networking, debates, and good vibes — that’s all you need for people to have a great time. I asked the audience whether the fact that so many of us were in the room meant the market hasn’t fully capitulated yet... 😂 What struck me most is how retail investors seem to have disappeared, while institutions have never been more bullish on our space. Or perhaps we should acknowledge that retail (at least those still actively trading crypto) are much educated than we give them credit for… and are simply waiting patiently for a clear breakout (or breakdown to buy the dip!). Anyhow, $BTC is currently back to its bear market trend so will we get confirmation this was nothing more than another bear flag or a clear higher trend?

$BTC breakout confirmed?!?

$BORG hasn't broken out yet — but it hasn't broken down either. The channel, the RSI, the structure… it looks like it could go higher relatively quickly. $BTC will lead the way and the trend seems to point out higher! Just waiting for the market to confirm what the chart is already suggesting 👁️ NFA. DYOR. 🫡

How one can manage it: → 30% position now at ~$0.192 → Add remaining 70% on confirmed close above $0.197 → Move SL to break-even once TP1 is hit → Trail from there into TP2 / TP3 Patience > FOMO as always.

What's different from 6 days ago: 📉 RSI pulled back slightly to 52.41 (was 56.50) 📊 Price sitting mid-Bollinger Band — indecisive 📦 Volume still thin at ~355K/day 🕯️ No confirmed daily close above $0.197 The setup is loading. Not triggered.

Quick recap: $BORG / USD has been in a downtrend since Jan 2026 — lower highs, lower lows for 3 months straight Price is still pressing against the upper channel resistance at ~$0.197 That level hasn't broken cleanly. Yet.

$BORG update 👀 6 days ago we could witness the descending channel breakout setup. Price hasn't confirmed yet — but the structure is still intact. Here's where we stand now 🧵

You can add crypto as a timeline!

@P3b7_ Thanks for the ethereum:native bull post! On a more serious note, what are the other chains (L1s) close to Ethereum’s level of decentralisation?

The Arbitrum Freeze: Decentralization Theater Meets Reality Two days after the $292M Kelp DAO exploit, the Arbitrum Security Council froze 30,766 ETH linked to the attacker. The funds now sit in an intermediary wallet, movable only by further governance action. Good outcome? Probably. Comfortable outcome? Not at all. 1. What the freeze actually is The Security Council used its emergency powers to execute a state-changing action against a specific address. No smart contract was broken. The code was overridden by humans with keys. This is not a secret or an abuse. It's a documented property of Arbitrum, and of every other major L2 today. By L2Beat's framework, Arbitrum is a Stage 1 rollup: a trusted multisig can upgrade the system and, in emergencies, alter state. Optimism, Base, zkSync, Starknet, Linea, all sit at Stage 0 or 1. No production rollup has reached Stage 2. Call the freeze what it is: a legitimate administrative intervention on an administered chain. 2. Decentralization theater is the default We built this space to give users sovereignty through self-custody, permissionless access, and credibly neutral rails. That ideal is still alive ,in a shrinking set of places: ETH on mainnet, BTC on Bitcoin, a handful of genuinely immutable contracts. Almost everything else is permissioned in some way: upgradable contracts, whitelisted oracles, pausable markets, admin-keyed bridges, multisig-governed rollups, freezable stablecoins. We kept the vocabulary of permissionlessness. We quietly built a governed financial stack underneath it. The Arbitrum freeze didn't create that reality. It made it visible. 3. Why does it persist Because a truly permissionless system at scale is brutal to defend. No pause. No rollback. No freeze. Every line of code public, every mistake final. Attackers iterate for free; defenders get one shot. Kelp is the canonical illustration: a 1-of-1 DVN against LayerZero's written guidance, two poisoned RPC nodes, a DDoS on the rest, and $292M minted out of a fabricated state. No zero-day. No smart contract exploit. An infrastructure-level attack on a verifier that was decentralized in name only. Meanwhile the adversary has scaled. DPRK-linked groups have more capital than most protocols have in treasury, dedicated research teams, timelines in quarters, and now AI that can diff every commit and grep every config at machine speed. Their only real constraint is self-imposed: don't kill the goose. With a 1-of-1 DVN they could have minted $292B as easily as $292M. They're calibrating, not restrained. 4. The honest tradeoff Both of these are true at once: The freeze likely saved real money from a state-sponsored attacker. The freeze confirms that Arbitrum, today, is a chain where sufficiently motivated humans can move your balance. These are not a contradiction. They are the explicit cost of the Stage 1 compromise. The open question is whether we treat that compromise as permanent and rebrand accordingly, or as scaffolding toward something stronger. 5. The only real exit: validity proofs Not better multisigs. Not faster incident response. A verifier that checks a succinct proof of another chain's state transition doesn't trust an RPC, a DVN, an oracle, or a committee. Either the math checks or it doesn't. That's how Ethereum L1 already settles rollups. It is the model every bridge should converge to, and the one Stage 2 rollups will need to reach. In that world, Kelp-style attacks become cryptographically impossible rather than operationally unlikely, and L2s stop needing emergency councils as load-bearing security. Every bridge and most rollups today are an IOU against that future. 6. Where this leaves us Maybe Bitcoin stays credibly neutral mostly because it refuses to do anything. Every system that tries to do more than move a scarce asset drifts toward human governance, because the alternative is getting drained by professionals with better tooling than the defenders. The uncomfortable part is admitting we are running on trust we told ourselves we had removed. The Arbitrum freeze didn't break a promise, it revealed a promise we had already stopped keeping. Until the proofs catch up, every "decentralized" protocol should carry its Stage label on the tin. Users should know which chain they're actually on when they click confirm. Stay safe. Stay honest about your trust assumptions

Si tu as la malchance de te faire kidnapper par des malades mentaux, alors rien ne peut vraiment te protéger. Ce type de feature a le mérite d'existé. Je suis d'accord c'est pas une solution miracle. Mais, selon moi, il s’agit ici plutôt de souligner que des plateformes cryptos tentent d'apporter des solutions qui offre au moins une certaine forme de protection pour la seule chose sur laquelle ces mêmes plateformes peuvent agir au niveau du produit : les fonds de nos clients.

Sauf que tu ne sais pas à quel point les auteurs de ce crime sont prêts à aller, à quel point ils peuvent être stupides et blesser, voire tuer leur victime en pensant qu’elle ment. Donc je pense qu’il vaut mieux perdre cette somme plutôt que de vivre une tragédie irréversible. Ta réponse est plus de l’opportunisme pour placer ta solution qu’autre chose. Au final les forces de l’ordre seront sans doute en capacité de les retrouver.