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Crypto and NFTs

Joined January 2018
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A man spent years teaching people about Bitcoin, but when he admitted he wasn't rich from it, one of Bitcoin's biggest figures mocked him. What happened next made him a millionaire. > Andreas Antonopoulos had been educating people about Bitcoin since 2012. > He wrote books, gave hundreds of talks and helped thousands of people understand Bitcoin. > But there was one thing he didn't have, a massive Bitcoin fortune. > In December 2017, Roger Ver, popularly known as Bitcoin Jesus, questioned why Andreas hadn't become rich from Bitcoin despite being an early advocate. > Andreas replied that he had actually bought Bitcoin early. > But in 2013, he sold his holdings to pay rent and support his family. > He had spent years working on Bitcoin without a steady income and couldn't afford to keep holding. > That response changed everything. > Bitcoin supporters began sharing his donation address, encouraging people who had benefited from his work to give something back. > Within three days, hundreds of donations had poured in. > One person sent 79 bitcoin:native, while another donation was worth $1.2 MILLION at the time. > By December 8, Andreas had received approximately 102 bitcoin:native worth $1.6 MILLION at the time. > At today's Bitcoin price, those 102 bitcoin:native would be worth approximately $7.5 MILLION. > Andreas was so overwhelmed that he described reading the messages with tears in his eyes. > He had spent years helping people discover Bitcoin and when the community found out he wasn't wealthy, they sent him a fortune.
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Kokino retweeted
Please revoke your Blur approvals this weekend if you’ve ever sold or listed NFTs there You can trust scammers will work to exploit their unmaintained contracts to steal your NFTs!
We're 5 Days away from Blur getting nuked. 57 Ape loans are spread out in the loan book (low risk) 33 of 86 peng loans are concentrated around 1.8e (medium risk) but a sleeper higher risk is still looming under the surface that won't reveal itself until the final hours
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Kokino retweeted
Me reacting to the Binance Hack
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Kokino retweeted
ICE and Trade[XYZ] plan to bring Hyperliquid-based perps to the U.S. Subject to regulatory approvals, ICE will operate U.S. regulated versions of Trade[XYZ]’s markets, leveraging their expertise as the leading deployer of real-world-asset perps on Hyperliquid. The new venue will operate separately to ICE’s institutional futures franchise and offer a trading experience designed for retail participation. Once live, U.S. traders will be able to trade 24/7 across a range of assets spanning the macro complex including: *Crypto *Equities *Indices *Commodities *Forex Read more: spr.ly/6010BHq9X8 Users will access the platform through U.S.-regulated FCMs performing KYC/AML screening, including ICE's joint venture with OKX. ICE and Trade[XYZ] will seek approvals to launch a new market built on Hyperliquid to operate KYC-compliant perp markets, including regulatory approvals to support leveraged trading.
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Kokino retweeted
The Binance hacker might have just pulled off one of the smartest moves I’ve seen in crypto. First, Tether froze $1.5 billion in USDT. Then Circle froze another $800 million in USDC. At that point, it looked like the hacker’s money was trapped. But apparently, he had already planned for that. Instead of holding the stolen USDT in a wallet, he allegedly deposited it into Aave and used it as collateral to borrow ETH. Then he walked away. That’s where the story gets crazy. Tether can freeze the USDT sitting in the wallet. But it can’t freeze the ETH he already borrowed. So now Aave is left holding frozen collateral, while the hacker is sitting on liquid ETH. And unless the protocol can recover it somehow, he may not even need to pay the loan back. Two companies froze billions of dollars in seconds. But someone who understood how to use DeFi may have found a way around both of them. Pretty insane when you think about it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The described Aave deposit used only ~60M USDT as collateral to borrow 19,762 WETH before freezes hit the main wallet, not the bulk of funds; Aave states the overcollateralized position is subject to normal liquidation with no material protocol risk. governance.aave.com/t/binance-hot-… x.com/binance/status… drk.vc/news/binance-1…
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NEW: @tradexyz'S @sershokunin ASKS @elonmusk TO INTEGRATE TRADE[XYZ]'S @HyperliquidX PERPS INTO @X "IT WOULD BE A KILLER PRODUCT"
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The most pico-bullish news for Hyperliquid gets announced this morning: >Druckenmiller public bullpost >Elon Musk retweeting >NYSE owner bringing perps to US And then 5hrs later Binance gets hit with multi-billion dollar hack?? Coincidence or...
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Kokino retweeted
Interesting
I am excited to be an investor in trade(xyz) as they partner with ICE to bring 24/7 perpetual futures on Hyperliquid to the United States. As a market participant, I am looking forward to to using their innovative product to enhance my investment process.
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🐧 Pudgy Penguin #8403 BOUGHT 💰 3.330 ETH 🛒 Blur 👤 0x421f…ae29 → rucogaj.eth opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0… Join the huddle: discord.gg/pudgypenguins
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Kokino retweeted
Art is supposed to make you feel something. This makes me feel something. Pudgy Penguins.
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The studio will never forget
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"Nobody knows this, but I'll share it on this podcast." Pudgy Penguins' @LucaNetz just disclosed that Igloo built an instrument to list crypto tokens directly on the Nasdaq or NYSE, structured as a security so protocols can pay revenue back to holders. 🐧 Read more: unchainedcrypto.com/ceo-luca…
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Kokino retweeted
SBF bought 5% of Cursor for $200k in 2022. The stake was liquidated by FTX bankruptcy trustees for the same amount $200k in 2023. Whoever bought that stake just cashed out a cool $3 billion profit from the SpaceX acquisition. A quick 15000x. You can get rich by venture investing.
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🚨 BREAKING: FORMER FTX CEO SAM BANKMAN-FRIED IS ONE OF THE BEST INVESTORS IN HISTORY HE INVESTED IN: CURSOR: $200K → $3B ANTHROPIC: $500M → $75B ROBINHOOD: $648M → $5B GENESIS DIGITAL: ~$1.15B → $3B SPACEX: ~$100M → $10B IF FTX HADN'T GONE BANKRUPT, HE WOULD BE WORTH OVER $114 BILLION NOW HE COULD HAVE BECOME A TOP-20 RICHEST PERSON...
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Pudgy Penguin #6873 secured for 146.45 ETH ($250k) via OTC grail aquisition. Congrats to the collector!
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1/ Today, an exploit occurred affecting FloorProtocol V2 and BitmapPunks. Both projects share a similar core contract structure: all fungible tokens issued are pegged 1:1 to the NFTs locked in the contract, allowing users to convert back and forth freely.
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Kokino retweeted
A Flooring exploit today turned a dust amount of WETH into a near-infinite fpToken balance, allowing the attacker to drain Flooring pools. This led to a followup opportunist scooping up tokens from the now depleted pools and exchanging them for underlying NFTs. 1/🧵
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Kokino retweeted
If you invested $100,000 in SanDisk 8 months ago, you'd be a millionaire today. If you invested the same $100,000 in $ETH 8 months ago, you'd be both poor and divorced today.
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Kokino retweeted
me holding to zero instead of selling for a loss
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