I got fired from Coinbase in the recent round of layoffs.
I was the guy in charge of turning the air conditioners on and maintaining the temperature of the server farm.
The Batman effect.
A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).
[Francesco Pagnini et al.,"Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect", Nature, 2025]
@ErikVoorhees@criptopaul How can we verify your claims?
We do have to trust you and your partners that your implementation of "math" is flawless, right?
"so you staked your ETH on the Ethereum blockchain to earn yield?"
"yes, Dave"
"except you didn't want your capital to be locked up so you actually staked it with a liquid staking protocol called Lido?"
"that's correct, Dave"
"and Lido gave you a liquid staking receipt token called stETH in return?"
"yes, Dave"
"and then you didn't think that was enough, so you juiced the yield even further by depositing your stETH receipt tokens into a restaking protocol called Eigenlayer?"
"you are correct, Dave"
"and now you didn't want to lock up your capital, so you actually restaked with a liquid restaking protocol called KelpDAO who provided you with a liquid restaking receipt token called rsETH?"
"you got it, Dave"
"and then that was surely not enough juice, so you then deposited your rsETH tokens into a lending protocol called AAVE so that you could open a leveraged looping position that borrows ETH against the rsETH collateral and restakes the ETH into rsETH which is then deposited as collateral, except it turns out rsETH used a cross-chain bridge called LayerZero whose security is held together by a 1/1 toothpick, which was obviously hacked by north koreans causing rsETH to become undercollateralized and now these looping positions are stuck and unprofitable, and everyone is pointing fingers at each other, and also DeFi is a very serious industry"
"you are 100% correct, dave"
jfc.
Having trouble understanding the market's reaction here.
Activity-based rewards are still enabled under the CLARITY Act, meaning yield can still flow indirectly via DeFi protocols for users willing to take some risk with their stablecoins. Smaller TAM, sure, but worst case Circle keeps the spread, and that shouldn't structurally cap USDC's growth.
The real question is how regulators draw the line between passive and active holding. If someone runs on @merkl_xyz an incentive campaign for USDC lenders on Morpho's idle market, does that qualify? That distinction will matter a lot more than the headline read.
bought a hardware wallet to verify transactions before signing them. to use the industry standard multisig i have to go into device settings and explicitly disable transaction verification. i am paying for security so i can turn it off.
you set up 5 signers with offline key storage, airgapped ceremony, timelocked execution, the whole production. then every single one of them clicks approve on a hash they can't read because EIP-712 calldata doesn't fit on a 2 inch screen.
billions of dollars in crypto treasuries secured by "does this browser tab look right to you"
sometimes this industry just feels like a complete joke
Itâs theoretically possible but practically a nightmare.
Itâs easy to create enough noise to drown out the CPU (DDoS). Injecting the malicious data would requires Precision Waveforming. Youâd have to perfectly time the mmWave pulses to mimic the exact voltage changes of a valid Ethernet preamble and payloadand also even if you inject a packet, the OS kernel's network stack will likely drop it because the checksums won't match the random atmospheric noise.
In 2003, 17-year-old Mike Rowe registered MikeRoweSoft[.]com for his web design business. Microsoft sued for trademark infringement and offered him $10 to give up the domain.
Insulted, he countered with $10,000. Microsoft then sent a 25 page cease and desist accusing him of extorton; a settlement was eventually reached, with Rowe granting ownership of the domain to Microsoft in exchange for an Xbox.