ericzma

Interested in building high performance and latency sensitive systems that are useful. Opinions are my own.

[Binance Research @BinanceResearch]

Crypto is not a safe haven for illicit finance.

📊 ~11% of illicit crypto volume was seized in 2025 – 55x the recovery rate for fiat.

That figure comes from publicly reported actions by Tether, Interpol, the T3 Financial Crime Unit, and others — not a single agency estimate.

📌 For context: The UNODC estimates less than 1% of illicit fiat flows are seized globally each year.

Even stripping out the Prince Group case alone (~US$15B in BTC), the remaining 2025 crypto seizures still run at roughly 10x that fiat baseline.

🔍 SlowMist and PeckShield tracked 8.3%–13.2% of stolen funds recovered or frozen in 2025 — reflecting fast incident response and tight coordination between exchanges, issuers, and law enforcement.

The bottom line:
Crypto crime isn't solved. But the idea that crypto is uniquely hospitable to illicit activity is increasingly a myth.

Blockchain is transparent by design. Regulators and investigators are finally using that to full effect.

[Bullish @Bullish]

USDC@SOL is now fully supported:

✅ Deposits & withdrawals (transfers)
✅ Move it in. Move it out. Faster speeds. Zero fees.

[Bullish @Bullish]

Bullish has arranged to receive $1.15 billion of proceeds from its recently completed initial public offering in stablecoins, which represents a historic step for the use of stablecoins in an initial public offering in the United States.

https://t.co/hh9i22RS9I

[SlowMist @SlowMist_Team]

Here are some details of the exploit:

1) A malicious implementation contract was deployed at UTC 2025-02-19 7:15:23:
https://t.co/HcGHjc48Ey

2) At UTC 2025-02-21 14:13:35, the attacker used three owners to sign a transaction replacing the Safe’s implementation contract with the malicious contract:
https://t.co/wsfF6HKreT

3) The attacker then used the backdoor functions `sweepETH` and `sweepERC20` in the malicious contract to drain the hot wallet.

[Bullish @Bullish]

High availability, observability, and disaster recovery: read our Engineering team’s latest #Bullish #Custody blog to learn how the advanced mechanisms of the #Taurus blockchain provide reliable 24/7 operations at Bullish.

Read the blog here 👇

[EOSIO @EOSIO]

Attention developers!📣 Introducing the latest addition to the EOSIO-Taurus ecosystem: a next generation contract development toolkit.

New features include debugging smart contracts, protocol buffers, freeing contract memory, vanilla ECDSA & RSA signatures & more. Check it out!

[EOSIO @EOSIO]

Meet EOSIO-Taurus, the next generation of blockchain open sourced for enterprise-grade performance. Systematically developed and rigorously tested by cryptocurrency exchange Bullish with functionality and adaptability top of mind.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

My all time favorite.. ❤️ https://t.co/cAZV7eRmWC

[LilMoonLambo @LilMoonLambo]

trying to trade crypto in 2022:

[ericzma @ericzma]

For embedded SQL DB, sqlite is a good choice https://t.co/RFeH0QrIpD

[ericzma @ericzma]

x^2 + y^2 = 25 = (10/2)^2 = (x + y/2)^2 = x^2 + xy + 1/4*y^2

3/4 * y^2 = xy

3/4 * y = x

3/2 * y + y = 10

y = 4

y = 3

So, x + y = 7

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

x² + y² = 25
2x + y = 10
x + y = ?

[Jed Bridges @JedBridges]

This is so upsetting

[Bullish @Bullish]

4/ On December 9th, our 16th day since launch, daily trading volume exceeded $100M.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

When I see the word "patent-pending" in the description of a startup, I stop reading.

[Greg K-H @gregkh]

Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on, we have enough real work to do: https://t.co/vWvtxjt7A5

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

16 April 1971 - FTP was released. So FTP is 50 years old, and you can say it was the original cloud for file storage ;) https://t.co/bUl8YP3T4j Do you still use FTP? I do. You know, download random stuff and packages, but they are now replacing HTTPS.

[Eduard Sizov @eduardsi]

– We don't write tests.
– Why?
– Because we don’t have time for it.
– Why?
– Because there is too much work and pressure.
– Why?
– Because we don’t move fast enough.
– Why?
– Because changing software has become difficult and risky.
– Why?
– Because we don’t write tests.

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

Satoshi Nakamoto listed their birthday as April 5, 1975

If you are wondering what animated them to create Bitcoin:

April 5 = FDR signed order 6102 making it illegal for Americans to own gold

1975 = Americans could legally own gold again

It’s all about about financial freedom.

[Mark Ermolov @_markel___]

Wow, we (+@h0t_max and @_Dmit) have found two undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs which completely control microarchitectural state (yes, they can modify microcode)