I said it quietly first ✨ (runs @latestincyber, launch for @ripsapp, @octant epoch one, @dev3pack fellow)
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Elixir retweeted
convenience vs security
if you use "sign in with Google" and someone gets access to your Google account they have access to all your logins
if you sync your Google Authenticator and someone gets access to your Google account they have access to all your 2FA codes
Elixir retweeted
my latest fashion investigation into why we’re never paid on time in fashion in the new issue of @Technikartmag out on newsstands today across France.
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SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
Elixir retweeted
One more thing..
Some of us in this space have spent YEARS calling out racists, ped0s like Drake Bell, grifters, ppl who extract labor, and others like Tom Sachs, Glassy, and few0cious. AND institutions too.
Only to be ignored, silenced, blackballed and harassed bc $, image and clout.
There has long been a culture where women ARE ignored when they try to hold ppl accountable.
Do better people!
🚨Be careful of @TimeToBeHappyGY
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Elixir retweeted
If you are unaware, this book takes place from the bank runs of the late eighteen hundreds to about thirty years from now...
Not only is it a great story, but it's real history
It's not a book "about bitcoin"... it's something anyone can read and learn why bitcoin matters
Elixir retweeted
Ten years.
Ten years since the first mint. Ten years since a handful of people decided to put art on Bitcoin and got called crazy for it. Ten years since the rooms started filling up with arguments about scarcity, proof, beauty, and frogs.
@scarcedotcity is throwing the party. September 8–10.
14 lots. 13 auctions. 1 raffle. @ScrillaVentura is raffling an original Rare Pepe Wallet limited edition print. @MrCryptoWatches has a 10 Year Celebration Watch. @MichaelNaples has the TRIPLEMIKE painting and token. @PepenardoStudio has two Stone Operation framed drawings. @halluciphile has PEPEFONDLERS. @h_u_e_s_ has exclusive artist proofs. @ZimaBlueArt has a 1/1. Collector lots include PIRATESPEPES, PEPEDICK, and three sets of Pepe Flyers.
And I'm reading the definitive hardcover of The Creature From Jekyll Island: Pepe Edition out loud on Spaces, start to finish, through the whole event.
I'm hosting the Spaces for Scarce. The artists are invited so ask them tons of questions about the work. This is the 10 year birthday party and the book happens to be playing in the background while the culture puts its objects on the block.
Monday night the auction is still closed. There is nothing to buy. Come hear the story. Come talk to the artists. Come celebrate ten years of the thing you helped build.
Tuesday it gets serious.
Executive Order 6101 went something like this
Govt - "hey... yall got gold?"
People - "sure do"
Govt - "well turn it over or go to jail... we'll give ya $20.67 an oz for it. Or, you know... prison"
People - "thats crazy, here take it"
Govt - "good looks dog, gold is now $35 oz"
Federal Reserve - MONEY PRINTER GO BRRRRRR
I will be reading the story live on spaces tomorrow night
Elixir retweeted
If you were using pocket bitcoin, cange all passwords to a long and complex sentence with punctuation and numbers. Change bank passwords. Dont click links. Dont trust sbail mail. Lock your credit reports.
Elixir retweeted
Well... I finished it.
And before the Scarce auction next week, I should probably clear something up.
The Creature From Jekyll Island: Pepe Edition HARDCOVER is not the same book.
I didn't put a hard cover around the paperback and call it deluxe. I went back in. I wrote another 259 pages into it.
More history. More lore. More Crownes. More Beast. McAfee. Samourai. COLDCARD. Quantum. John Villar.
25 new pieces of art. More augmented reality.
This is the book I was trying to make the first time.
@scarcedotcity... Sept 8–10
And before anybody has to decide whether they want one, I'm going to read the whole thing to you.
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I’m a second-generation bookseller, and a few weeks ago when my family’s store got hit with a series of strange bulk orders, I publicly said that it didn’t look like AI companies to me.
I had good reasons. The orders we received had the signature of reseller arbitrage on obscure books. These types of books already get bought, warehoused, and quietly liquidated all the time by the ecosystem Amazon built and sits at the center of. I know this world intimately as I’ve been in a used bookstore my whole life. Plus, I’ve spent the past year building technology to rapidly catalog rare books into an open database precisely because these books were already disappearing.
Today 404 Media made me question my “resellers not AI” theory in the most direct way possible. A bookseller let a journalist hide a tracker in a book in one of the weird bulk orders. That book ended up inside an Amazon warehouse that is known among Amazon workers as a cushy gig because all you do is slice books and scan them all day long. So the original villain of the story (Anthropic) isn’t what 404 Media’s evidence showed, but the new evidence also goes directly against my “likely not AI” suggestion.
It is still possible that many of the strange purchases are resellers. (Both of the companies previously named in various investigative reports have since denied selling to AI companies.) There’s also still no way to prove which AI companies are buying books, or exactly what happens to every book.
The scale is also unclear. I personally went through all the media coverage and every group and forum discussion I could find, and counted fewer than 100 individual sellers reporting these orders. Of those, a few outliers sold thousands of books and a handful sold 50–150, but most who mentioned sales sold under 20 books. That pales in comparison to what came out last year about the industrial-scale book destruction for AI training. But it would be naive to double down and not start to question how much of this sales bump is attributable to AI companies.
If you’re outraged at this wholesale destruction of books, I am too, and I have been since before AI companies even got involved. I made the case for the project and got funded on “saving books before they’re destroyed” over a year ago before any of this was news. I like to focus on how much control I have over the “how” as opposed to the “what.” Books were being destroyed before AI companies wanted them, but it was already an enormous and complex system.
There’s no single villain or focal point to fix. The deeper problem is this: we cannot protect what we cannot identify. Rarity is illegible. Nobody (used booksellers, arbitrageurs, Amazon, the AI labs) actually knows which books exist in five copies versus five thousand. Each has access to limited data on proprietary platforms that don’t often communicate.
I don’t think that as one guy I can stop all these books from being destroyed. But we’ve built and are improving a tool that makes destruction visible: rapid cataloging into a public database of record, down to the edition and copy level. My mission is to get it into enough hands that we can make informed decisions about what gets preserved and hold people to account when the last copy of something goes into a shredder.
Regardless of whether you’re interested in my work specifically, if you’re concerned, do what you can. The last time the Library of Alexandria burned it wasn’t invading armies or roving marauders but rather generations of “not my job” and “who gives a shit.”
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Mirror blog post - charliebecker.substack.com/p…
‼️ BREAKING: Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI.
They tracked it to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to VGT3 (see logo below), a scanning operation feeding Amazon's AI training data, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster.
Amazon won't say why the books are destroyed.
Elixir retweeted
Imagine me going to the packed ER waiting room and seeing who'd pay $500 to be seen next. That'd be disgusting, immoral, unethical, stupid. But that's what Alberta is doing. And the doctors (my peers) just follow the money - just like you would. They don't care about ethics.
Elixir retweeted
So first off, DPRK isn’t really hunting these sorts of things in this fashion. Their primary is still brute forcing people socially. Bc it’s wildly effective. And it’s free. Plus, even if they were, it would still be for free, bc they are fucking hackers and they hack credentials and keys and accounts. Including AI accounts. Duh.
But more interesting is the rest of the point. So swap "DPRK" and every other specific APT for a generic attackers who ARE grinding with AI and let’s talk about that.
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I would argue it’s still the wrong mental model.
AI is a force multiplier for EVERYONE who uses it. It is NOT a complete game changer.
Hard costs are NEVER the constraining factor for security. Not for defenders, not for attackers. Skills, expertise, and priorities are. AI is a tool, it is powerful, but it doesn’t upend the entire structure of the world.
For example, it’s easy to say "if Coldcard had spent more compute hunting their own codebase, they'd have found it before an attacker did."
But that's NOT why they didn't hunt it.
They didn’t hunt it in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, or 2026. Not with AI. Not without it.
They didn't hunt it because they're a five-person shitshop with a fat marketing budget and zero security budget.
They don't peer review their own merges. They antagonize engineers and security researchers who try to help.
That's the limiting factor. They don’t prioritize security. That's why attackers won here. As has always been the case.
A bigger compute budget doesn't fix this type of team or product or architecture.
And AI being available to attackers makes it slightly easier to find this issue, but it was ALWAYS going to be found by an attacker.
Bc the team wasn’t fucking looking bc they don’t fucking care. And no whitehat could be bothered to persist thru the shitshow to look either. Which only leaves blackhats. So the blackhats won. End of.
.@hosseeb on why beating North Korea's hackers now comes down to who can afford the most compute:
"If the attackers are spending 500 bucks, and good guys are spending maybe a couple bucks, they're like, oh, I just wanna check and see if there's any low-hanging fruit. Otherwise I'm not gonna use this code if I can tell it's obviously busted. So they spend a couple dollars worth of compute, and they say, ah, it looks good enough. It's a well-funded project. It's open source. Yeah, I guess I'll use it."
"But North Korea is spending 500 bucks, 1,000 bucks, 2,000 bucks just grinding and grinding and grinding, running multiple agents overnight trying to find an attack."
"That means that no matter how many good people are spending $2 worth of GLM compute on you, they will never be able to find the depth of the tree that North Korea is searching for. None of the normal users will ever get there, which means it's only really on the company."
"The company is the only party that can coordinate enough compute to be able to actually expand the search space enough to out search an attacker."
"But it does mean that attackers have the same problem. So if North Korea and Russia and China are all trying to hack your protocol, but they all spend, let's say, $5,000 each, if you spend $10,000 you will actually find everything that they can find and more."
"Which in that sense, it benefits defenders over attackers in the long run, because the company can actually outspend any individual attacker in principle, and that used to be not sufficient defense in the old model because of the fact that attackers were uncorrelated with each other."
@dragonflyvc
Elixir retweeted
I want to be clear and I won't mince words.
This pisses me off, a lot.
I don't care in any way shape or form if you think I'm being overly dramatic, I truly don't. If anything - you aren't mad enough.
POAP is hands down a top 3 dapp/protocol and has been for years. We are losing an absolutely incredible thing here - and it's our fault.
Rise Up has been using POAPs since 2021 for all sorts of things - community events, episode milestones, games, treasure hunts, and more.
Knowing I won't be able to use it for our 600th episode, or 1000th, or anything else is absolutely maddening.
Can you imagine for a second, if we elevated and paid attention to something like @poapxyz the same way this space has the Ansem meme? Even 10% of the attention?
Every time something like this - a free to use, simple, and accessible tool for new user onboarding - goes away, it feels like we lose another piece of what brought many of us here in the first place.
I personally used POAP to onboard dozens and dozens of people who had never made a wallet, minted an NFT, sent a transaction, or looked at onchain data.
The process was SO easy, and just like that a brand new user got to enter this space with a great experience and immediate induction into a phenomenal community.
My conviction to fight the erosion of our core ethos is stronger for staring down the barrel of losing a platform like this - and I hope everyone takes this as the warning sign that it is.
I have seen this industry rally together when terrible things happen. The unity I saw in the wake of the Kelp DAO bridge exploit was so inspiring - I hoped it would catalyse a broader push to take our industry back.
Yet here we are - letting another amazing piece of the space fade, all while pretending that Congress and Blackrock have our best interests at heart.
Maybe it was just about greed the entire time.
The fight goes on, there is so much work to be done. Don't let this canary go unnoticed. – at Port Wentworth, GA
After 5+ years, we're winding down POAP.
Over the years, we:
* minted millions of collectibles across hundreds of communities.
* did incredible collaborations with world-class organizations - Coinbase, Amex, WMG, Bayer, and a long tail of others, including countless in crypto.
* ran one of the biggest activations at Devcon, minting 8000+ collectibles over the course of a week.
* built an Airport Rally to let collectors get POAPs at airports around the world.
POAP meant something to a lot of people.
Unfortunately, crypto's funding cycles and distribution dynamics made it hard to build a sustainable company without cannibalizing the ethos that made POAP mean something. Building on a fragile and quickly evolving stack, in the middle of an incredible hype cycle, only added to the challenges.
Still, there are some big lessons I am carrying from the POAP story.
First: Customer communities are the most undervalued asset a company can have. If you build something with soul, people who use it and love it will take your brand everywhere. Do not underestimate the power of customer communities.
Second: Connection is still the point. It's easy to lose that thread when the conversation is about the latest bubbly tech or price speculation, but the people using POAPs at events, in classrooms, at hackathons were getting something real out of it.
Third: Longevity and brand equity are the only moats left. With the time to building and shipping something new collapsing quickly, and distribution becoming increasingly an engineering problem, customers increasingly want to make sure they can trust that the things they are buying will grow and evolve with the market, without changing radically.
Grateful for everyone who believed in what we were building. It's too soon for me to say what's next, but for now, I'm thinking a lot about what GTM looks like in the age of AI.
Elixir retweeted
This I not the complete truth. Cameras provide background so you know the intersection. They know your speed and direction so they can track you.
Coupled with cell phone tower pings and other data that can feed a database you are tracked.
Flock cameras are not needed. The security on accessing the cameras is not there. There have been lots of violations on usage and data sharing.
No real evidence of crime deterrence or avoidance.
Let me stop this "Flock tracks people" conspiracy. Let's take my city for example. We have 8 cameras. All cameras are in points of entry & exit into the city. So, as u enter or exit your tag is read, a distant photo of your vehicle is taken, & the camera u passed by is logged. ALL that info is deleted after 30 days. If u are wanted, the car is stolen, u are on the terrorist list, u are a missing or endangered person, or have warrants, every police car in the city is notified. All that info pops up on my screen. Now, here is the important part. Once you pass that camera I have no idea where u are within the city until u pass by the next one. No city has cameras on every single corner to "track" you. That's a complete BS lie that got started & took off. There are many versions of flock cameras. The cameras used by law enforcement DO NOT track or record people or their movements. Vehicles only. Other versions of Flock cameras that do record people are a whole different animal & I am not familiar with because ALPR, which again are what most cities use, DO NOT have people capabilities.
Elixir retweeted
@Marriott my family stayed at your hotel Elrment at Miami International Airport.
We are strongly advising against staying at this Marriott property due to serious security issues. During our stay, an employee entered my daughter's and her financee's room and stole half of the cash from her wallet. When she reported the incident, hotel management was uncooperative. The hotel refused to provide door audit logs or camera footage to both us and the responding police officers.
We filed an official police report and were informed by authorities that incidents of theft are a recurring issue at this location. This theft ruined the start of our vacation and caused significant financial hardship for the remainder of our trip.
That was almost a week ago. Someone was to reqch out tonme as I made the family reservations. To date no on has. How can we rectify this?
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Canada's New Social Media Ban is NOT About Your Children | Here's What They're NOT Telling You
Canada just announced the Digital Safety Act — a social media ban for anyone under 16.
Most Canadians think this is about protecting children. It isn't.
To enforce a social media ban, every single Canadian will have to prove their age by attaching government-approved ID to their social media accounts. That's not child protection. That's a digital ID.
And once you're verified on one platform, that verification follows you everywhere — linking every account you own under your real identity.
But it gets worse.
This isn't a standalone policy. This is the missing piece that connects Bill C-9, C-22 and C-8 into a complete surveillance and censorship system.
Bill C-9 defines what you can and cannot say online. Bill C-22 forces platforms to save your data for up to one year. Bill C-8 gives the government the power to cut you off the internet entirely.
The digital ID created by this social media ban is what connects all three.
And they're selling it to you as child protection.
Don't be fooled. All these bills are interconnected — and this is the last piece of the puzzle.
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Elixir retweeted
Paul Walker’s personal 1999 Ferrari 360 Modena now available onchain.
From the Fast & Furious legend’s garage to fractional ownership on @base.
This isn’t just a car. It’s a piece of culture you can actually own.
Bringing car culture onchain - One legend at a time!
Elixir retweeted
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
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Shouts to @SAGA_is_SEGA and @2140ART_
June
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Bitcoin Graffiti Popup Prague @ Tesnov Graffiti Hall, Prague
Leading up to the 600bn party. 👇
600bn Prague Party @ Fuchs2, Prague
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Bitcoin Graffiti Jam 2026 @ Stockwell Hall Of Fame
Bitcoin Graffiti Jam 2026: Street Art, Music & Open Culture in London eventbrite.co.uk/e/bitcoin-g…
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30th
New Music Economy: Change The Game @ The Tramshed, Woolwich
Elixir retweeted
P2 FOR LEWIS!! 👏
A hugely strong result for Hamilton and Ferrari in Montreal ✨
#F1 #CanadianGP
Elixir retweeted
So apparently our military vets are receiving letters from the Pentagon warning them that if they speak out against Trump or Israel online they risk losing their benefits.
Bold move to piss off millions of men that you taught to kill with an AR-15 and desensitize to murder under the guise of protecting the Constitution and strip of their own constitutional rights.