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by danielvf 4y ago
If you are wanting to read some code, here's a an "ERC20" contract (a "money"). https://github.com/Rari-Capital/solmate/blob/main/src/tokens...
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by danielvf 4y ago
According to the original complaint, a few months after being interviewed by an FBI agent on returning from his trip to North Korea, Griffith had the following conversation over text messages: Griffith: I need to send 1 [REDACTED UNIT OF
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by danielvf 5y ago
I'm a super negotiation-phobic person. :D At the end of the day, the big gains don't come from the words you say. 80% of the price reduction just comes from finding the dealer who able/willing to sell the same thing you can g
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by danielvf 5y ago
I'm the designated car buyer for a few people. (this advice is US centric) First off, the market right now is really terrible for buying. Possibly the worst it's been in a really long time. The same things that worked before, stil
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by danielvf 5y ago
In the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, each choice has a counter choice that thoroughly defeats it. If you knew that your opponent was going to reveal a scissors, you would counter with a rock. In Star Craft, each unit has opposing units tha
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by danielvf 5y ago
I agree completely with both parts of the second half of your post, and I think the parent commenter above yours does as well. The first half, however, is neither kind, nor thoughtful. It's a direct attack on someone, rather than engag
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by danielvf 5y ago
It is useful. Regardless of the virtue - or strong lack thereof - of the new law, the current headline here is misleading about what was actually passed.
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by danielvf 5y ago
Replied in a sibling comment.
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by danielvf 5y ago
Just to be clear, the XDR is not a _terrible_ monitor. It's certainly better than a random $200 monitor. Most people in the world wouldn't notice the following issues. - There is a noticeable (to me) brightness shift with viewing
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by danielvf 5y ago
I've worked off Apple Cinema displays since the '90s and Apple Studio displays before that. I am a monitor snob. I care deeply how things look. I currently have an Apple XDR Pro monitor. It's not a great monitor - it is indee
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by danielvf 5y ago
It's not just Russia. Planning air operations is far harder than it looks. In the initial phases of the UK/French air attacks on Libya in 2011, the French Air Force plus a French carrier ended up only able to combined together sus
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by danielvf 5y ago
Does anyone have a link to her dog show judging bias paper? I'd love to read it. I knew some people on the dog show circuit a long time ago, and each judge having obvious bias for random dog aspects / ages was well known. Since do
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by danielvf 5y ago
Yes, people have gone to jail for stealing Bitcoins - In fact a US DEA agent and a US Secret Service agent did a few years ago. See https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releas... for the
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by danielvf 5y ago
As a part of the hack the attacker did transfer 320M million worth of previously existing coins to themselves. That was the payoff for the hack, and the entire point of doing the hack. The minting part was just a stepping stone to that. Als
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by danielvf 5y ago
Wormhole is now owned by the crypto arm of a large traditional financial trading company, Jump Trading. Here's a tweet from the CEO of Jump Crypto saying that they put up the funds: "Jump put up 120k of it’s own ETH because we bel
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by danielvf 5y ago
It's also likely that the majority of the money on the bridge was theirs to begin with.
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by danielvf 5y ago
Here it is on one page - fun to watch $300+ million come off Binance, and get wrapped and transferred to the contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0xe4f6df25710e75a08cb967e831ea5...
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by danielvf 5y ago
No, this was bridge users money stolen.
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by danielvf 5y ago
There is something unusual about this hack. And it's not the hack itself. Crypto projects get hacked every week. Multichain bridges are the target of the month, with eye-watering amounts and complex code running on different blockchain
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by danielvf 5y ago
This hack was by defeating access controls - it at least can't argue that it was just good trading.
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by danielvf 5y ago
Contrary to what most people on hacker news seem to believe, or believe others believe, yes, it's a crime, and yes, the FBI / law enforcement is often involved. (But don't seem to catch people.) In US law, theft is taking som
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by danielvf 5y ago
In this case they had publicly posted the bug fix on GitHub hours before the attack.
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Close enough to dollars, although one project did also give out a bonus of their own tokens on top of the promised reward. Large projects tend to be pretty good about paying out as promised, and not in weird tokens.
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by danielvf 5y ago
Yes. The USDT and and USDC stablecoins do this. Competent attackers immediately trade these for other currencies that can't do this. Newb attacker don't, and loose those funds back to the projects.
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by danielvf 5y ago
I'm guessing because the lottery system needed to generate a large number of random numbers (given that they are running lots of lottery systems), and this gives a fairly verifiable way of doing that from one initial chunk of randomnes
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by danielvf 5y ago
As far as I know, not one has been caught by law enforcement. But several attackers have been tracked down by blockchain sleuths, or by the hacked projects themselves. In the usual case, when messaged with personal details about themselves,
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by danielvf 5y ago
You can see on this page on their site: https://app.nexusmutual.io/claim-assessment
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by danielvf 5y ago
This bug was on the Solana blockchain. Solana has built in support for updating code. Even on Ethereum, with it's mostly immutable contracts/programs, there is a super common pattern of a tiny shim contract that forwards all calls
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by danielvf 5y ago
From the link on the home page for the "notice of general meeting" for Nexus Mutual Ltd, the directors are: KARP, Hugh DANILA, Ionela Roxana MELBARDIS, Reinis MUNOZ-MCDONALD, Nicolas THURGOOD, Graeme George This matches the compan
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by danielvf 5y ago
I've wondered this too. Three reasons: - It's currently easy enough to hack the same money. Way less effort. - Doing something physical puts the crime into areas where law enforcement is used to working, used to catching people, a

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