Kiwi News: handpicked crypto news for builders

I’ve had a few people write to ask me to follow up on a (reply!) tweet I wrote that’s gotten a lot of retweets. I considered deleting it just to avoid the headache, but I think that would make people more paranoid. So let me share my thoughts.

Gnosis bridges are now the first production system to act on FCR on Ethereum mainnet. Starting today, the xDAI bridge and Omnibridge use Ethereum's Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR). Deposits from Ethereum are confirmed in about one slot, instead of waiting for finality. Bridging from Ethereum to Gnosis Chain just got MUCH faster, and it's a big step on Gnosis Chain's path to @etheconomiczone. Here's why it matters.

This is insane! The U.S. government just transferred out another 12,267 $BTC ($1.01B). https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/usg

one thing you start to realize as agents get insanely good is just how much of legacy software is basically workflow theater. there are so many legacy workflows that only exist because software historically couldn’t understand intent, gather context, make decisions, or take action for you. agents do not have this problem whatsoever, in fact they are designed to these exact things. e.g. take intuit & turbotax. nobody ever wanted to do taxes like that. most ppl want to hand over everything that happened financially that year & have the correct return filed. a lot of software like this is absolutely cooked. turbo tax is so fucking screwed that they will have to increase lobbying to even more record levels to continue the nonsense. get ready for bills like no ai in tax filing etc. these guys know they’re cooked, it’s just a matter of months now. maybe even less.

https://crypto.slopo.net

imagine going to this website then depositing 5m tether on your new ledger

Ledger is investigating reports of loss of funds from users in South East Asia who purchased products from a reseller named CryptoBillis. As a precaution, and pending the results of our investigation, we have asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments of Ledger devices. We recommend Ledger users who purchased from this reseller in the last 90 days to not initiate set up if you have not done so yet. If you have set up your Ledger device, consider moving assets to a new Ledger signer (with new seed). We will continue to inform customers of updates as the investigation progresses. Reach out to Ledger customer support through official channels with any questions: https://support.ledger.com/

This looks like this could be exactly what I'm investigating. Anyone affected, please contact me or open your ledger and send me pictures so we can confirm if there's a bug in there (pictures: ledger board on top, spy implant below).