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Crypto is being massively stolen from users of various crypto wallets through… 18+ websites - victims have already lost $5,570,000 due to a vulnerability in iOS 18. It’s all because of the DarkSword vulnerability: just open an infected website via Safari and malicious code is already running on your smartphone - passwords, messages, photos, and crypto wallet files (including private keys) are under attack. Update iOS to the latest version as soon as possible. And never ever store photos of your seed phrase in the gallery or write it in Notes!

bullish for crypto $ETH bitcoin:native $BMNR $BMNP

Has Ethereum lost its soul? Day 2 at @EFDevcon Mumbai. 🇮🇳 It pains me to say it, but the mood feels a bit disenchanted. You can see it in the half-empty rooms and in the hallway conversations. I've been to every Devcon since Cancún 2017. Back then, the narrative was about inclusion and empowering the weak. For those of us coming from emerging countries, it was a tool to circumvent bad institutions (and maybe build better ones bringing the rule of law where it was lacking.)! Many of us Argentines got into Ethereum because stablecoins were the way around capital controls. It wasn't an ideology. It was a survival tool. For people from advanced economies, it was a way to escape government and big tech surveillance. Then the narrative started drifting. DeFi yields, NFTs, memecoins... Each cycle brought more money and less talk about the common person. There are still talks on those original topics, but more and more the stage seems to reflect the worldview of Silicon Valley elites: transhumanism, longevity, life beyond biology. The contrast couldn't be sharper. Inside, conversations about transcending the human condition, governing societies through futarchy and handing DAO governance decisions over to AI. Outside, the chaos of Mumbai's streets, where millions hustle to survive and deal with very human problems every day. My impression from day 2 is that Ethereum is at a crossroads: solving the problems of nerds and Silicon Valley, or addressing the every day problems of real people. The real test isn't whether Ethereum scales, but for what and for whom. If it ends up as a playground for a tiny niche of insiders talking to each other, we can expect emptier conferences every year. Sorry for the pessimistic take. 🥲 Hoping day 3 finds me in better spirits!

Security release pre-alert: We will release new versions of Node.js 22, 24, and 26 release lines on or shortly, after 2026-11-11 in order to address security vulnerabilities. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH. https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability…

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Who pays for crypto hacks? Everyone forgets hacks are an invisible tax on transacting and storing value in crypto. Like shoplifting, the cost gets priced in and users pay for it. Every hack makes crypto less competitive as a network. Since 2018, crypto has lost an average of 24 bps of market cap per year to hacks. The US banking system loses 1.7 bps of deposits to fraud. That’s a 14x gap

it's kind of painful to see the devcon keynote after almost 10yrs building ethereum's OSS stack, is this what is left? where is the accountability? how are you going to inspire the next wave of strong devs? not the B players and the rent seekers? in the age of AGI? come on

If you want to help protect the decentralization of Hypersnap and tell the corporate censor captor polity who took over farcaster to fuck off, we have an open call for validators to join in the fork kickoff: https://github.com/farcasterorg/hypersna… Do your part. Protect the protocol.