Avid crypto researcher and user. I learn by doing, so I try to do a lot. Follow me to learn from my research and mistakes.

Texas, USA
Joined December 2017
GraspOnCrypto.eth retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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"What does it mean to beat China?" WHY DON'T YOU TRY CLICKING ON THE POST
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GraspOnCrypto.eth retweeted
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement. I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible. But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier. Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want. Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well. So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it. If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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Several ways to configure your @openhome speaker with @ChatGPT! Run the easy installer here! pkyanam.github.io/openhome-g…
Replying to @openhome
@openhome users! feed this into your agent! Read and follow raw.githubusercontent.com/pk…. Set up OpenHome GPT Live on this computer. Do every safe machine step, preserve existing state, and pause only for the human-only account, dashboard, DNS, authorization, or physical-speaker steps named by the skill.
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GraspOnCrypto.eth retweeted
Agree!
Agree. We price check cost plus options when patients fill meds and it routinely beats the copay through insurance. The strangest conversation in medicine is telling a patient their coverage is the expensive option. Every physician should have the price tab open.
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GraspOnCrypto.eth retweeted
1/ As an active participant in the home and solo staking community, I have been surprised to see a number of folks whose opinions I highly trust claiming that EIP-8363 is detrimental to home stakers. I think there is an important aspect that is not being understood. As written, the proposal affects large staking entities much sooner than home stakers, and in fact, it protects home stakers more than the current model does. Let me explain. 🧵👇
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🐧 Linus Torvalds gets angry when people say 99% of our code is written by AI, he told the audience at the Open Source Summit.
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Seems New Zealand getting a tough showing from the ref here tonight
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GraspOnCrypto.eth retweeted
we just shipped native Home Assistant integration for the OpenHome DevKit. one click install. thousands of devices. fully voice controlled. no terminal. no YAML. no cloud dependency. openhome.com/blog/home-assis…
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GraspOnCrypto.eth retweeted
Replying to @jaibhavnani
- uniswap v4 - continuous clearing auctions - unification and protocol fees - blackrock buidl - fought with regulators for defi to name just a few
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What the heck @olivegarden , 10 days?! You should try @apachekafka instead of snail mail. @USPS could hand deliver my request faster than that...
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GraspOnCrypto.eth retweeted
please do NOT follow @slopcomputer this is not the official account for slop.computer they are impersonating, not responding, and will probably pull a bait and switch AGAIN: @slopcomputer is not the handle for slop.computer -- please unfollow
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GraspOnCrypto.eth retweeted
Refinanced my car loan to 6.5%, while I have a credit score of 830. Just a reminder, TradFi isn't cutting any deals even for creditworthy borrowers. DeFi borrow rates are comparatively so mispriced, borrowers should be paying much higher for the risk onchain lenders take, even with overcollateralized loans that can be more readily liquidated. The attack vectors onchain right now are too many to not adjust these interest rate curves.
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I downwards to harp on all off-shore contractors, I have worked with a few really good ones - but in my experience the vast majority barely work. They find one issue, mark it as blocking, then do nothing else (i assume they do this with several companies at once). Its frustrating
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Anyway, these employees need to be very wary, because im seeing one on-shore employee leveraging AI accomplishing more in a day than a team of off-shore employees do overnight. Yes, on-shore has benefit of quicker clearing of road-blocks....and?!
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Where are my agentic crypto wallets? I want to just tell my wallet "go buy 100 $VVV and stake it @AskVenice " Anything out there? Anyone working on this?
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The best way Im.finfing to explain LLMs to friends is to imagine your LLM as Leonard from Memento. It has all the knowledge from before they were trained (the moment Leonard was struck in the head). Now whenever you talk to Leonard (your LLM), you need to give it all the context
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necessary for it to give you an accurate answer. If you ask it something else, it will not remember your previous conversation - so you have to pass that context along as well.
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