Webcurios 30/10/26

Reading Time: 37 minutes I confess that while I personally have no beef with crypto per se – other than my occasional angry recollection of how much I would be worth had I bought Bitcoin when I first wrote about it 15 years ago and it was worth thruppence – I can’t help but find it very, very funny that a bunch of people who’ve been hodling like motherfcukers can all be undone by some iffy infosec at a meaty level. ALL THAT ONCHAIN ENCRYPTION CAN’T DO SH1T IN THE FACE OF HUMAN INCOMPETENCE, MY APE ENTHUSIASTS (yes, I know ‘people who are into crypto’ aren’t a 1:1 match with ‘idiots who were into BAYC’, just allow me a bit of artistic license ffs IT’S MY NEWSLETTER). Anyway. It has been Another Week and one in which I have had to spend FAR more time than I would have liked thinking about prediction markets and reading Select Committee transcripts (yes, my life is a thrilling carousel of excitement, I am so glad you asked!), but I am now going to go and have a nice lunch with my friend…