hempasai

Long-term bullish on hardware + software convergence. Documenting the future of autonomous systems and space exploration.

[hempasai @hempasai]

A hidden camera on the iPhone Duo. The end of the notch and Dynamic Island era might finally be here for Apple's absolute top tier

[マメ @jetdaizu]

iPhone Duoの隠れるカメラすごい…

[hempasai @hempasai]

@JamesMelville )))

[hempasai @hempasai]

Satoshi Nakamoto is Dead, or Is It an Intelligence Project?
The theory that Satoshi Nakamoto is dead, has lost the private keys, or is an intelligence agency project has serious economic and structural foundations. Setting aside excessive speculation, it becomes clear: these are not just conspiracy theories, but the basic mathematics of risk assessment.
The creator's wallets hold about 1.1 million bitcoins, which is approximately 5–6% of the maximum supply and is valued at tens of billions of dollars. Many try to justify the concentration of such a volume in one pair of hands by comparing it to corporate stakes in traditional businesses: for example, a single family owns 40% of Walmart, Mark Zuckerberg holds 15% of Meta, and Jeff Bezos owns about 10% of Amazon. However, this comparison is fundamentally flawed and completely ignores the difference in market mechanics.
In traditional finance, corporate stakes of 10–40% are registered securities strictly controlled by regulators like the SEC. Insiders and founders physically cannot dump their massive blocks of shares onto the open market all at once without lengthy prior approvals and public declarations. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is a decentralized digital bearer asset. 6% of its absolute and immutable supply is pure, unrestricted liquidity. If the anonymous owner of these keys decided to send their entire volume to the spot market, no regulator in the world could freeze the accounts or block the transaction.
This is exactly why, for financial giants like BlackRock or Fidelity, investing billions of dollars of client funds into an asset with such a compliance risk would be unacceptable. No major institutional fund would enter a market where one unknown entity could crash it at any second by dumping its reserves. The fact that Wall Street is massively investing in Bitcoin indicates that their analytical departments estimate the probability of these coins moving as absolute zero. The market prices the asset under the assumption that this $88 billion stockpile effectively no longer exists.
Furthermore, strict operational security and the human factor cannot be ignored. The absolute silence on these wallets since 2010 logically points either to the physical death of the sole owner (such as early cypherpunks like Hal Finney or Len Sassaman) or to the intentional and irreversible destruction of the private keys at the very launch of the network to ensure its true decentralization. Human psychology makes it practically impossible to forfeit access to such an immense amount of capital for 15 years—no living independent developer could resist moving at least a small fraction of the funds for the sake of security, charity, or diversification.
There is also a historical precedent for intelligence agency involvement: at the core of Bitcoin lies the SHA-256 hashing algorithm, developed by the US NSA in 2001, much like how Tor, the current privacy standard, was originally developed by the US Naval Research Laboratory. A decentralized and pseudonymous financial network could theoretically serve as a brilliant infrastructure project for covert, cross-border financing untethered from traditional banking.
Paradoxically, putting all these factors together, we are left with a system where the creator's untouched wallets have transformed from a potential threat into a fundamental guarantor of stability. Without the certainty that these keys are lost forever, Bitcoin could never have integrated into the traditional financial system at its current scale.

[hempasai @hempasai]

@faraotrading We better ask CIA

[hempasai @hempasai]

The theory that Satoshi Nakamoto is dead or has permanently lost access to his 1.1 million bitcoins is grounded in hard economic logic. This is not mere conspiracy theory, but the basic math of risk assessment.
No major institutional fund would pour billions of client dollars into an asset where a single unknown entity holds the power to crash the market by 80% at any moment. Wall Street's massive entry into Bitcoin signifies that their compliance and analytics departments assess the probability of these reserves ever moving as zero.
Add to this the absolute silence across these wallets since 2010. No living developer could have resisted moving at least a fraction of those funds for security or diversification purposes. These keys were either intentionally destroyed at launch to ensure the network's true decentralization, or they are lost forever. Paradoxically, it is precisely this permanently locked capital that now serves as the primary guarantor of liquidity and stability for the traditional financial system.

[hempasai @hempasai]

@RDV1113 It would collapse

[hempasai @hempasai]

@Mike_Liveuk ?

[hempasai @hempasai]

A hidden camera on the iPhone Duo. The end of the notch and Dynamic Island era might finally be here for Apple's absolute top tier

[マメ @jetdaizu]

iPhone Duoの隠れるカメラすごい…

[hempasai @hempasai]

@30minutepoo Or russian

[hempasai @hempasai]

@redstaxs Be kind)

[hempasai @hempasai]

@DutchAlchemist 0

[hempasai @hempasai]

@deere_84 @melodythememory Exactly, and this was that alternative

[hempasai @hempasai]

@genejchan People have been saying 'powerful enough quantum computer in 2 years' for the last 10 years))

[hempasai @hempasai]

@HeadXrp Can't wait to see what the FOIA request uncovers. Transparency is key here—the truth always comes to light eventually. ⏳

[hempasai @hempasai]

This is an example of an unboxing scam or product swapping scheme. Scammers take original iPhone boxes, remove the devices, and carefully reseal them with metal weights inside. The purpose of these metal blocks with red adhesive tabs is to mimic the exact weight of a real smartphone, deceiving the buyer at the point of sale. 
The fraud is typically discovered only when the box is opened. This specific scene likely captures the moment the deception was uncovered, such as during a product return to a store or an inspection by retail staff.

[hempasai @hempasai]

Comparing Satoshi's 6% BTC holding to the equity stakes of Zuckerberg (15%) or Bezos (10%) is fundamentally flawed. Corporate equity is strictly regulated by the SEC: insiders are physically incapable of crashing the order book by dumping their shares in a single click without lengthy clearance processes.
Bitcoin is entirely unregulated liquidity. 6% of the total supply in the hands of an anonymous entity represents tens of billions of dollars that could be dumped onto the spot market in a single transaction, and no regulator in the world would be able to block it. This kind of structural risk simply does not exist on Wall Street.

[hempasai @hempasai]

50 accounts managed by a single AI, 24/7. The dead internet theory just officially transitioned from a conspiracy to a scalable business model

[Param @ParamSiddh]

Dead internet. This is scary. 😱

China's AI agent, Manus AI, runs 50 social media accounts 24/7, completely on its own.

[hempasai @hempasai]

Back in 2008))

[John Ternus @johnternus]

Apple Fifth Avenue... what a morning!

[hempasai @hempasai]

Something new

[TuAppleMundo @TuAppleMundo]

La cámara de apertura variable de los nuevos iPhone 18 Pro 😳

[hempasai @hempasai]

Next-gen Google maps

[alexine 🏴‍☠️ @alexinexxx]

i know china is going to win bc their google maps gives live countdowns for traffic lights you haven’t even reached yet

[hempasai @hempasai]

This isn't just a quiet exfiltration; it's a VIP unboxing video for high-net-worth identity theft. Packaging stolen verification selfies into a hype trailer proves the cybersecurity landscape has fully crossed into pure cyberpunk dystopia

[Korra @korraflow]

‼️ BREAKING: The Revolut hacker has shared with Duel's investigation team, for the first time, a complete video showing the scale of his information treasure trove. Multiple celebrities are included in the leaks.

The hacker plans to announce his ransom demands today.

Here's everything we know about the case so far:

- As we established in our previous posts, the hacker gained access to an Italian government email address through an infostealer.

- Over the course of several months, using fake European Investigation orders, the hacker would submit large numbers of cryptocurrency transaction IDs to Revolut asking for all personal information associated with the accounts to be sent over. Revolut complied, sending hundreds of files, all belonging to high value crypto holders or transferors.

- The hacker's goal was to obtain high value crypto targets. This has various potential use cases in the cyber criminal world, such as online social engineering, conducting IRL robberies, reselling the information to other criminal groups, or blackmailing Revolut directly.

- The hacker says that any individual can "buy themselves" out of the data leaks. He will be publishing the ransom note without 24 hours outlining his demands from Revolut. We do not currently know what amount he will be demanding.

- We asked the hacker if he feels bad about what he did and the effects this will have on victims and their privacy. His reply was: "If the ransom is not paid, then the data will be sold, and their blood will be on Revolut's hands, not mine."

- A member of the hacking group known as "Smilik" had a falling out with Villain. They splintered into two channels, each one claiming to be the hacker. Smilik was unable to provide our team with sufficient evidence proving he was the original hacker. Villain provided videos, original emails with attachments, and proof that he had originally sent a subset of files to Smilik. We are satisfied that Villain is the original hacker and that his narrative is consistent.

- The hacker will be contacting other journalists and investigation groups today to release the same information, allowing for the existence of the files and authenticity of the emails to be independently corroborated

- Our team is under the impression that this is an amateur group that got lucky due to Revolut's lack of checks and continued incompetence over several months. This does not seem to be a professionally organized hacking group.

- The partial files sent to us contained details of a famous Swedish singer and Idol finalist, a prominent Armenian academic, an Indian cricket star, and several founders and CEOs. To balance public disclosure with user privacy, our team redacted every piece of personal information from the original video before publication. We have also deleted the original information from our end.

- Our understanding is that the files sent to us were just one of dozens. Each file, which comes with full banking and transaction history, would allow hackers to establish the target's daily spending patterns, location data, people they send money to (likely family, employees, or other close contacts) and more, leading to highly damaging personal disclosures.

We are releasing this information in the interest of public transparency. The breach is real, and Revolut was not forthcoming enough about it in enough time. We hope Revolut takes all legal and necessary steps available to them to prevent this data from being either publicly released or sold to criminal groups, as it would be highly damaging and disastrous for victims involved.

This is most of what we have for now. We'll keep an eye for any further updates, including when the ransom demand comes out.

[hempasai @hempasai]

Current crypto scanners are stateless. Building an intelligence layer with long-term memory is the only way to survive a market built on serial anonymity

[Superior @andreysuperior]

Your scanner has never once remembered a scammer.

You checked the mint, the LP, the holders, and the deployer that rugged you last month passed every check the month before too.

I built one that remembers, straight from solana, base, and robinhood chain.

AEGIS, the scam filter with a second brain / https://t.co/1NkGYNmxqZ

Paste any address, three seconds, a score from 0 to 100, every deployer AEGIS has seen kept on your disk.

I just shipped the second brain into it, the six checks tell you what a token is right now, the brain tells you what the people behind it have done before.

What it does before you click buy:

> Runs six on-chain checks, mint, freeze, top 10 concentration, bundle detection, LP lock, metadata
> Writes every scan to a local SQLite file, deployer, wallets, verdict, status live or rugged
> Adjusts the score by plus or minus 25, a deployer with 3 rugs starts at minus 15 before any check
> Refuses to trust a clean contract from a dirty wallet, known-ruggers in first buys knock 10 off

> Why this is the smart part:

A competent rugger passes six checks every time, that is the point of being competent, the contract is a snapshot and the snapshot always looks clean.

What they cannot hide is the pattern across launches, same funding wallet, same three bot wallets in the first block, and the second brain reads that pattern before the next victim clicks buy.

Runs on your machine, no cloud, no account, gets sharper the longer you run it.