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How eMudhra Signed for a Year With a ‘4’ as a Private Key: Uneasy Money
What happens to security schemes that quietly assumed nobody would try? 🤖
According to @kain, AI agents now will, and that thread ties together a weak CA key, two PHP bugs, and the @papertrade_xyz launch.
@tayvano_ and @austingriffith weigh in on Uneasy Money.
Timestamps:
🎬 00:00 Intro
🌐 02:07 Why a burst of unrelated internet-breaking bugs landed in the same 48 hours
🔑 05:13 How a certificate authority's private key turned out to be the number 4
📧 17:47 Why revoking bad certificates runs on a literal email thread
🤖 22:52 Kain on why schemes built on human laziness are unraveling against AI
🐘 25:34 PHP to shell: two remote code execution bugs in the language behind the web
🛡️ 33:21 How Cloudflare is shielding unpatched PHP admin panels during the rollout
🎣 36:04 Austin's $1 test: how fast bots drained a weak Ethereum private key
💼 37:44 Nexo: Generate daily interest on your crypto or borrow funds against your assets at unchainedcrypto.com/go/nexo-…
🪣 38:25 papertrade's 1,000x 'bucket shop' and the token you earn by losing
📚 48:55 The mechanism design lessons hidden under DeFi Summer's degeneracy
🐋 52:35 How DeepSeek keeps getting smarter while Kain's API bill fell to $3 a month
🏛️ 57:06 Why DHS banned DeepSeek and why Austin says local models are the safer bet
♾️ 01:05:13 Why Kain says Anthropic gives off SBF vibes and could be 'worth infinity'
🎯 01:14:23 The drained-key update: bots grabbed 10-digit keys, but 12 digits held
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Blumenthal's letters ask Tether for a breakdown of its payments to Nxum, including wallet addresses, and whether the two firms have discussed Tether taking a stake in Nxum. The WSJ reported that Nxum claimed Tether planned to buy 25% of it for $56 million.
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$70 million to $82 million a year: that's the USDC reserve income a new complaint says Circle misses because MGX paid for its Binance stake in USD1 instead of USDC.
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HSBC plans to let customers use its new HKD stablecoin to subscribe to tokenized investment products later this year, starting with a new share class of its Hong Kong dollar money market fund.
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LG CNS, lead contractor on the Bank of Korea's Project Hangang, will bring the full Chainlink platform into its digital asset work for Korean institutions, according to Chainlink's Oct. 22 announcement.
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Crypto tax wish list: the Blockchain Association wants wash sale rules extended to digital assets, no tax on transfers between your own wallets, and R&D credits for blockchain development.
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In today's Unchained Daily newsletter:
🔥 Ex-Circle engineer sues Trump over World Liberty deals
🏦 Coinbase Ireland accepts a fine from the Central Bank of Ireland
🧪 Ethereum developers cancel Glamsterdam's Oct. 26 Hoodi testnet activation
📨 Sen. Blumenthal demands Tether and Nxum records tied to Bo Hines
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Bybit's legal chief says the exchange hopes to add derivatives in Dubai, subject to approval. Its new VARA license, now listed as active, covers spot trading.
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To me there’s one very obvious reason Elizabeth Holmes doesn’t seem to understand what she did was wrong in You Can See Everything that I haven’t seen anyone mention and it’s not because “her mind works differently” it’s because a lawyer told her never to admit guilt on camera after a court orders you to pay $452 million in restitution if you were ever hoping to get it reduced.
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How eMudhra Signed for a Year With a ‘4’ as a Private Key: Uneasy Money
What happens to security schemes that quietly assumed nobody would try? 🤖
According to @kain, AI agents now will, and that thread ties together a weak CA key, two PHP bugs, and the @papertrade_xyz launch.
@tayvano_ and @austingriffith weigh in on Uneasy Money.
Timestamps:
🎬 00:00 Intro
🌐 02:07 Why a burst of unrelated internet-breaking bugs landed in the same 48 hours
🔑 05:13 How a certificate authority's private key turned out to be the number 4
📧 17:47 Why revoking bad certificates runs on a literal email thread
🤖 22:52 Kain on why schemes built on human laziness are unraveling against AI
🐘 25:34 PHP to shell: two remote code execution bugs in the language behind the web
🛡️ 33:21 How Cloudflare is shielding unpatched PHP admin panels during the rollout
🎣 36:04 Austin's $1 test: how fast bots drained a weak Ethereum private key
💼 37:44 Nexo: Generate daily interest on your crypto or borrow funds against your assets at unchainedcrypto.com/go/nexo-…
🪣 38:25 papertrade's 1,000x 'bucket shop' and the token you earn by losing
📚 48:55 The mechanism design lessons hidden under DeFi Summer's degeneracy
🐋 52:35 How DeepSeek keeps getting smarter while Kain's API bill fell to $3 a month
🏛️ 57:06 Why DHS banned DeepSeek and why Austin says local models are the safer bet
♾️ 01:05:13 Why Kain says Anthropic gives off SBF vibes and could be 'worth infinity'
🎯 01:14:23 The drained-key update: bots grabbed 10-digit keys, but 12 digits held
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What breaks when the attacker never gets bored? 🔓
On Uneasy Money, @kain says most schemes were built on the assumption of human laziness.
Catch the full conversation here 👇
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How eMudhra Signed for a Year With a ‘4’ as a Private Key: Uneasy Money
What happens to security schemes that quietly assumed nobody would try? 🤖
According to @kain, AI agents now will, and that thread ties together a weak CA key, two PHP bugs, and the @papertrade_xyz launch.
@tayvano_ and @austingriffith weigh in on Uneasy Money.
Timestamps:
🎬 00:00 Intro
🌐 02:07 Why a burst of unrelated internet-breaking bugs landed in the same 48 hours
🔑 05:13 How a certificate authority's private key turned out to be the number 4
📧 17:47 Why revoking bad certificates runs on a literal email thread
🤖 22:52 Kain on why schemes built on human laziness are unraveling against AI
🐘 25:34 PHP to shell: two remote code execution bugs in the language behind the web
🛡️ 33:21 How Cloudflare is shielding unpatched PHP admin panels during the rollout
🎣 36:04 Austin's $1 test: how fast bots drained a weak Ethereum private key
💼 37:44 Nexo: Generate daily interest on your crypto or borrow funds against your assets at unchainedcrypto.com/go/nexo-…
🪣 38:25 papertrade's 1,000x 'bucket shop' and the token you earn by losing
📚 48:55 The mechanism design lessons hidden under DeFi Summer's degeneracy
🐋 52:35 How DeepSeek keeps getting smarter while Kain's API bill fell to $3 a month
🏛️ 57:06 Why DHS banned DeepSeek and why Austin says local models are the safer bet
♾️ 01:05:13 Why Kain says Anthropic gives off SBF vibes and could be 'worth infinity'
🎯 01:14:23 The drained-key update: bots grabbed 10-digit keys, but 12 digits held
Everyone asks what their crypto is worth. Fewer ask what their crypto could be doing. 💭
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How close is Q-Day? ⏳
@apruden08 told me 2030 is his earliest realistic date for a quantum attack, and @conordeegan argued "A-Day" for AI may already be here. Their shared advice: start migrating now, in an orderly way.
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1/ The OCC just finalized its rule under the GENIUS Act. Stablecoin issuers still can't pay interest. Exchange rewards, like Coinbase's 3.75% on USDC, weren't banned, but got no safe harbor.
3/ But Coinbase's filings tell a different story about where its stablecoin revenue actually comes from, and which part the rule leaves open.
4/ In this week's Bits + Bips premium issue: what the rewards cost Coinbase, what ending them would do, and the scenario that puts all $292 million in play.
Read it here: unchainedcrypto.com/are-you-…
Can anything cool inflation without austerity or demand destruction? 📈
@austincampbell puts the question to @coinbase's John D'Agostino and @perkinscr97, who warns about a fraying social contract as protests spread across Europe.
From the Bits + Bips episode with @Nick_van_Eck.
youtu.be/6DO0H-1Olr4
