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The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice 📙

Crypto folks (hopefully) already know that Lazarus is one of the most prevalent threat actors targeting this industry. They rekt more people, companies, protocols than anyone else. But it's good to know exactly how they get in. Bc another smart contract audit won't save you.

👿 MCP is all fun, until you add this one malicious MCP server and forget about it. We have discovered a critical flaw in the widely-used Model Context Protocol (MCP) that enables a new form of LLM attack we term 'Tool Poisoning'. Leaks SSH key, API keys, etc. Details below 👇

Wow! Wow wow wow! I think Sean Bowe’s “Project Tachyon” may be an historic breakthrough in achieving global consensus with minimal shared state, by leveraging the power of Proof-Carrying Data (an application of recursive zero-knowledge proofs). x.com/ebfull/status/… ⤵️

It’s bold. It’s nationalist. It’s flawed. Because you can’t tariff your way to prosperity. And you can’t revive American industry without fixing what’s broken at home. The enemy isn’t foreign competition. It’s big government.

Before I share details about my personal experience and who is involved, first allowing some security teams to work through their process, i'd like to share with you the tactics used to take COMPLETE CONTROL of your computer. ↓This setting is ON by DEFAULT on Zoom ↓

is there anyone trying to make Ethereum *less* complex? or are we just adding things without realizing that each new thing requires maintenance and cognitive overhead for new entrants to learn about? at some point we're going to collapse under the weight of our own complexity

zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ This is great, but better thought of as a tradeoff between space and time: instead of consulting an ever growing database of data, you continuously update your proofs. Proofs allow you to trim the data, and the longest delay between updates determines how much data you must keep.

Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got:

The father of a crypto millionaire was kidnapped in broad daylight in Paris on Thursday. Similar to the David Balland attack, a ransom of 5M EUR was demanded and one of the victim's fingers was amputated. lemonde.fr/en/france/arti…

This is wild. - 2 months ago: Ledger co-founder kidnapped in France. They chop off his finger in an attempt to extort his co-founder. - 1 week ago: Father of a crypto influencer is abducted in France. They chop of his finger in an attempt to extort his son. - Today: People

Unbelievable. When I was a director of an exchange in 2013, one of the first security policies I set up was: -Once KYC/AML was approved it was printed out. -One copy went to a fireproof filing cabinet at main office with the compliance lead. -One copy went to secure offsite

Patrick Tobler of masumi.network envisions a future where you hire an AI that then enrolls more specialized AI agents to do all kinds of tasks.

The barbarians are not just in France: abc7ny.com/post/crypto-to…

😔💔 I’m Roman Storm. I poured my soul into Tornado Cash—software that’s non-custodial, trustless, permissionless, immutable, unstoppable. In 31 days, I face trial. The DOJ wants to bury DeFi, saying I should’ve controlled it, added KYC, never built it. SDNY is trying to crush

in singapore last year i gave a talk called "cryptodollarization". the idea is dollarization via stablecoins. now with the GENIUS act about to pass and bessent's comments about stables reaching $3.7T (!!) (13% of M3), i believe stablecoins are being unleashed as an economic

One minute I was prepping for a Zoom call. Ten minutes later, large part of my life savings were gone. It started with a message on Telegram from Alex Lin — someone I knew. He wanted to catch up. I shared my Calendly link. He booked a slot for the next day. A few minutes

This was Aida Rostami, an Iranian doctor who was tortured and murdered by the Islamic regime for treating protesters against the regime. Her body was full of fractures, her nose was broken, her left eye was gouged, and her shoulders were crushed. Free Iran from Islamists!

Fun historical story that most people don’t know: when the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology selected Keccak to be the new Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA3), they knew that it was inefficient—that it did a lot computation that wasn’t necessary for security. ⤵️

So, due to the widespread and well-founded suspicion about their proposal to optimize SHA3, NIST reversed course and announced that the original, overengineered Keccak would be the final SHA3 standard. ⤵️