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Robinhood is Dragging the Stock Market Singlehandedly to DeFi (opens the original)
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Vlad Tenev walked onto a stage in Houston at the ‘HOOD Summit’ on Tuesday night, called himself Captain,[1] responding to a ‘distress call from the Zeta Reticuli system,’ and welcomed a room full of traders aboard the Starship Robinhood.His product managers played the crew. The baddies were bald aliens called the Vrax who wanted markets shut.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c5Gr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
Lazarus Strikes Again, Bitget’s $388 Million Hack (opens the original)
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Nobody at Bangladesh Bank in Dhaka worried much when the printer on the 10th floor stopped working.The duty manager, Zubair Bin Huda, found it dead at 8:45 one Friday morning in February 2016[1]. ‘We assumed it was a common problem just like any other day,’ he later told police.That printer kept a paper record of every payment the bank sent. Hackers had been inside for a year. Their malware had switched it off[2].They never cracked a vault but sent orders through the bank’s own payment system to
The Opposite of Trump! (opens the original)
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I’m a self-confessed Seinfeld obsessive. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve rewatched the entire show, end to end, on top of when it was first aired in 1989 and into the 90s.There’s an episode in season five called, ‘The Opposite’ that I couldn’t stop thinking about today.George Costanza is sitting in Monk’s diner with a tuna on toast, no job, no girlfriend and is living back at his parents’ place.Jerry tells him that if every instinct he has is wrong, the opposite must be right.So, Geo
Solana Outtraded the NYSE with $117 Trades (opens the original)
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Twenty-four brokers stood under a buttonwood tree outside 68 Wall Street and agreed they would trade only with each other, and none of them would charge less than a quarter of a percent to do it.That was 17 May 1792, and the club they formed became the New York Stock Exchange as per the Buttonwood Agreement.Two centuries on, it still runs, and still keeps bankers’ hours, 9:30am to 4pm New York time, weekdays only. A 234-year-old agreement still dictating how markets work.But that will change.It
The Solution to Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem is What the Soviets Wish they Had (opens the original)
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Gene Grabeel was 22 and teaching home economics[1] at a high school in Virginia when the Army came calling.Her new job was a pile of intercepted Soviet messages nobody could read. The project she would head up, known as VENONA.Moscow didn’t mind who copied its traffic, because its codes were meant to be unbreakable. VENONA was designed to change that.Grabeel started on 1 February 1943, and nothing came from it for nearly four years...Then, in December 1946, her colleague Meredith Gardner cracked
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