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Nick Bax.eth

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Structural Biology PhD Over-educated cyclist Shadowy Super Coder Notoriously bad DM checker 50/50 mix of shitposts and serious 🐦

Palo Alto, CA
Joined July 2009
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1/ In 2018, a man in Colorado was tricked into downloading malware which resulted in his BTC, ~95% of his net wealth, being stolen. In 2021, he sued two teens for stealing his BTC. His investigation offers a rare glimpse into crypto forensics methods.
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Nick Bax.eth
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Guy who bought $37k in stolen human organs literally put "braiiiiins." in the memo line on PayPal.
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Nick Bax.eth
4 years
@elielcruz I counted 6 people in this video who weren't wearing masks. All 6 appear to be NYPD.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
BitBoy: "Give the evidence. This is your moment. Prove [unintelligible]" Lady Zach: "So you can just go and check all the evidence posted by @zachxbt " BB: "That thread's from a year ago" LZ: "It doesn't matter if it was a year ago" BB: "You're a child molester" 🤣🤣
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Nick Bax.eth
7 months
shot / chaser
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@mdudas it gets better
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Nick Bax.eth
1 year
Yikes. Co-conspirator was literally advertising human remains on Instagram and selling them at crafts markets in Salem...
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Nick Bax.eth
6 months
This dude was involved in almost every big early crypto investigation: Gox hack Silk Road corruption Welcome2Video (CSAM site) VIP Twitter ATO as well as countless smaller cases he doesn't get public credit for. Total travesty here. I feel so terrible for him and his family.
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6 months
BREAKING: Binance exec Tigran Gambaryan pleads not guilty as judge sends him to Nigerian prison
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@ConstitutionDAO core team is either incompetent or malicious. They're making internal decisions that are causing insane volatility. The type that insiders could easily trade on. Anybody know an on-chain analyst who knows what to look for?
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Nick Bax.eth
1 year
@zachxbt @MichaelRazum @JPEGd_69 Lesson for future smart contract exploiters:
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Nick Bax.eth
5 months
Amazing to see the culmination of over a year of Zach's hard work. Zach links over 25 hacks to Lazarus Group, who was laundering money via pretty much the same path for 3 years! Z's investigation beautifully illustrates something that the security community has understood for
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ZachXBT
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1/ How Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25+ crypto hacks to fiat from 2020 - 2023
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@TomicahTD @Ukraine @VitalikButerin @olex_scherba If only there was a way to cryptographically sign this message...
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Rode my bike by SBF's parents house. Campus police closed off the street (and even the trail behind it). Apparently he hasn't arrived yet but there's a few journalists and camera people waiting to catch a glimpse of him.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
lol this company owned by SBF deleted its website in the past ~30 hours. I archived parts of it
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Take a look at North Dimension Inc. I found 2 North Dimension Inc websites. One looks like what I'd expect, just a "financial services company". The other is an electronics retailer that doesn't actually sell stuff and shares an address with FTX US.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@MonetSupply every time someone puts 8 figures in a 2-of-n multi sig
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Nick Bax.eth
2 months
@lopp She hands out stickers. Not a huge security risk in the grand scheme of things, imho.
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1 year
@trader1sz look at the bright side
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Take a look at North Dimension Inc. I found 2 North Dimension Inc websites. One looks like what I'd expect, just a "financial services company". The other is an electronics retailer that doesn't actually sell stuff and shares an address with FTX US.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Alchemy/Infura have a lot of data that can be used to deanonymize DeFi users. People will start realizing this in a couple hours. And then we'll have a twitter space around Tuesday-Thursday where thought leaders act like they've been working to fix this all along.
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Nick Bax.eth
4 years
@EBabady @richdavisphd @providence_phc It probably would. Certain sounds produce more speech droplets. 🤓 There's a nice paper on it:
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Euler hacker returned the majority of the funds. 🙏🙏🙏 what charity should I donate to?
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@AutismCapital ftx insider should share all the messages from the company slack.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Market rate for a Zach-tier sleuth is ~$750-$2.5k/hr, depending on details, with a sizable retainer. Many of the investigations he does for free would cost 6-figs. But most wouldn't be economically viable because they're many small victims instead of 1 big one that pays.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@antiprosynth @TheAltcoinHub yea this is fake. A quick look through OP's account suggests we might have found cryptowhale's alt.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Hot take: All this Tornado stuff is actually Ronin's fault because they handed 174k ETH to DPRK. Even Chris Blec could've told them that their multi-sig scheme was inadequate.
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Nick Bax.eth
9 months
@BillLou95 I try not to dunk on victims of crime but when you say things like "FUCK METAMASK" and "my wallet would have LITERALLY caught it" you open the door to that. Here's what Nest Wallet shows when I visit that phishing site and the most valuable thing in my wallet is stETH (not ETH
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Nick Bax.eth
4 years
@woonomic So we've got a weird negative feedback loop where higher price --> outage --> lower price. @AdamScochran 's meme is actually real.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@LukeDashjr Really sorry to hear this. I'm sure a lot of people would be very interested to hear technical details of the attack once you have had a chance to investigate.
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Nick Bax.eth
10 months
@zachxbt @MartiniGuyYT How to achieve financial independence: 1. Buy illiquid shitcoin. 2. Shill to your 500k+ followers. 3. Dump shitcoin on followers.
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Nick Bax.eth
6 months
People always ask "How can I learn to trace crypto?" and the answer we give is "look up known cases and try to repeat them". This one is a great example. If you can link these rugs on-chain then you are a solid EVM tracer. Was fun to work on. Stay safe friends.
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ZachXBT
6 months
Community Alert: The group of scammers who stole 8 figs with Magnate, Kokomo, Lendora, Solfire, etc is back with a new project on Blast @Leaperfinance Last week they funded an address on Blast with ~$1M of laundered funds from the previous rugs and have begun adding liquidity
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Nick Bax.eth
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@zachxbt Literally this.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
At one point, users were told to deposit and withdraw money to it in order to get funds on FTX. Maybe FTX was planning on pivoting into electronics retail. Or maybe this was a way to get around some banking issues. Archive everything you find, friends.
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Nick Bax.eth
11 months
🚨 Big news from us at @uncipheredLLC : We've publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in BitcoinJS-based wallets generated between 2011 and 2016. The coordinated disclosure has gone smoothly so far. Vendors have notified over a million wallet holders! (please migrate your crypto from
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Joseph Menn
11 months
Experts discover flaw leaving $1 billion in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies exposed for stealing from early software wallets. Free link to my story in the The Post:
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
🧵(1/27) Privacy and sovereignty over personal data are important to me. This is part of why I'm deeply upset about the Tornado Cash sanctions. In 2017 I got sim swapped. Some kids tricked Verizon to port my cell number to a phone they controlled.
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Nick Bax.eth
1 year
@KyleLDavies I recommend that you send a copy of all of 3AC's books, transaction history, internal messages, etc to @zachxbt so he can audit them and clear your name.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@sungjae_han here's a list of all 317 addresses that ever deposited exactly 200 ETH to so who knows, maybe they were sloppy and are on it. That's pretty small anonymity set Sorry don't have time to filter it by time
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@HsakaTrades @ElMomentoRD looks like they're owned by OuroSRL. There's some connections between FTX people and OuroSRL.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
I just published an article describing how it was able to trace @monero (XMR) transactions associated with the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack using publicly-available data. (1/n)
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
I've done a lot of forensic analysis on tornado. Here's a research project I was a part of. I'm still trying to process this but I am very confident this will only hurt honest people and will not stop criminals/rogue states.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
Suffice to say, people in the discord channel are livid. I feel bad for people where this was their first experience with DeFi. The "core team" are not representative of the DeFi space as a whole. Simply put, this is *not* how DAO governance works.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 months
Address poisoners have started sending real money in order to evade Etherscan and some wallets' blocking measures. Some users are baiting the address poisoners for profit. The normal flow is: 1. Victim address with large USDC/USDT balance sends a test transaction (usually $1,
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2 years
"We traced cryptocurrency from crimimals to a centralized exchange."
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
lol I own the NFT of this song now 💸
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Gabriel Haines
2 years
PONZI THEIF ZERO @songadaymann bring the 🔥🔥
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Nick Bax.eth
6 months
@Eljaboom Either Elizabeth Warren misspelled her own name in this letter or it's fake. DYOR!
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
lol you need to KYC to buy a trump NFT with crypto.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Bitcoiners trying to dunk on Monero for tail emission is a massive self-own.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
Just to reiterate, decentralization is a spectrum. Some DAOs are quite centralized. However, this is *not* a DAO. This is people who used smart contracts to raise funds with the stated intention of forming a DAO. But the behavior here was *not* DAO-like at all.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
highlight of that space was definitely @ameensol telling zooko what we were all thinking: that nobody actually uses zcash and it'd be banned in a heartbeat if NK actually used it.
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5 months
This is….incredible
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Nick Bax.eth
10 months
People don't talk about this enough. @Tether_to blocked the Ledger Exploiter's address. @circle didn't, and about a half hour ago they converted the stolen USDC to something unfreezeable. This happens frequently and has resulted in many millions of preventable thefts.
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@BillHughesDC @Tether_to People love to think that Tether is scared of US or some shit LOL guys *Circle* is what you get when you are US-focused, scared of USG, and fully compliant. USG should seriously ask itself why Tether does more to stop illicit flows than their homegrown baby, Circle.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Media outlets are eager to trade your safety for their clickbait. It's obvious that this will make creditors cyber targets. "absent evidence of a genuine threat to the safety of the creditors" Here's some evidence @lopp has compiled wrt physical safety
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@nntaleb >Nobody among users/institutions noticed Incorrect. A lot of people noticed and much earlier than they would've if this had been an opaque Madoff-style ponzi. Some people even explained the attack on twitter and medium, and debated it with Do Kwon in public.
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Nick Bax.eth
1 year
@machibigbrother @zachxbt bold plan. let's see how it works out for you.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@gogoSlava 👀looking at the agenda and the time of this tweet to figure out who it is: I have a guess.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@bantg that'll teach him to post code on github
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Allegations that @AzukiOfficial 's BEANZ launch was sniped by insiders were made yesterday and were amplified by some popular NFT accounts 🙄 Using the @Honest_NFT shenanigan scanning tools, I took a very close look at this drop. 🧵(1/14)
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@AutismCapital I did submit a form asking for a quote on 10 ipads. Have not heard back yet.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@0xfoobar Pretty sure he's actually just sophisticated AI. Humans have time zones/sleep schedules.
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2 years
@nightmayoralty @CumberlandSays @FTX_Official this is how you can tell it's being written by a trader and not a social media intern
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
this video is gonna be described in a court doc one day
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TrVon 🟢
2 years
So far, you sacrificed for this. $More $Hex
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
This NFT logs your IP address: 🧵
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
Got invited to make a @Sismo_eth account. First thing I do with any protocol I'm testing is kick the tires a bit. Gotta say, I'm *very* impressed that they caught this common mistake/reveal before I even registered. First time I've ever seen a UI warning like this.👏
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@Timccopeland @NeerajKA He successfully predicted 400 of the last 3 crashes 🧠
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
If you're a @ConstitutionDAO insider and have interesting information, feel free to make a burner protonmail e-mail and contact me: magicamulets at protonmail dot com. Look through my twitter feed first, figure out what I'm about. Any info will be 100% confidential.
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Nick Bax.eth
4 years
@lopp Their instructions on how to dispose of it are concise as well.
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Nick Bax.eth
1 year
Machi made a lot of sloppy and easily disprovable allegations in his complaint. The purpose of this suit was likely a combination of blatant SLAPP (to silence Zach) and to vindictively dox Zach. I'll put down thoughts below as I read through it.
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ZachXBT
1 year
1/ It’s unfortunate I have to make this thread but I am being sued by MachiBigBrother for an article I published in June 2022. Today Machi filed the defamation lawsuit. The lawsuit is baseless and an attempt to chill free speech. I intend to fight back & defend free speech.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 months
>deposits to Tornado within 2 minutes of exploit. "We believe you acted as a white hat" lol no.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@danheld the real question is will I get banned from twitter if I post how to make iron oxide and aluminum powder at home.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
This means anybody who had ETH in the uniswap-v3 pool who didn't see the discord announcement (recently edited so I can't screenshot it) was essentially getting rug pulled. Spending Saturday with your family and not checking your computer? Observing the Sabbath? Tough luck
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Nick Bax.eth
4 years
@lindyli 🤣🤣 The campaign was dismissing this a few days ago.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Someone tried to launder 0.02 dirty goerli ETH through the privacy pool. $0.00641 at current price. Not on my watch 🕵️
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Ameen Soleimani
2 years
🚨 OFAC VIOLATION DETECTED🚨 Deposits #63 and #80 in came from the OFAC sanctioned goerli ETH tornado cash contracts... please exclude them when you withdraw! more info about these deposits here:
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Nick Bax.eth
1 year
Pleased to share that today I begin a new role at @uncipheredLLC as Director of Analytics where I'll be doing what I always do: analyzing blockchains. If you're locked out of your crypto wallet, that's something we can definitely help with.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Issued my first bounty on @gitcoin last night and woke up to 5 quality applicants this morning. This is a total game changer.
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Nick Bax.eth
1 year
7/7 The article and court docs show additional evidence which further corroborates the plaintiff's findings. The case is hanging in the balance as novel questions related to jurisdiction and statute of limitations related to crypto thefts are resolved. Thanks for reading!
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
that's not a disappointed facepalm. that's a "i cant believe these guys suck this bad at tornado" facepalm.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Zach elegantly demonstrates that criminals still make mistakes when laundering stolen crypto. He makes this analysis look straight but forward but it's the result of a *lot* of hard labor (and only a few people can even do it at all).
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ZachXBT
2 years
Loyalist: $4m stolen from over 400 victims
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Nick Bax.eth
4 months
looks like Certik did return ~2.6M to Kraken on Ethereum mainnet today. 0xa172342297f6E6d6E7fe5df752CbdE0aa655E61C is the deposit address they used on Polygon.
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Nick Bax.eth
6 years
Got my @COLDCARDwallet today: Pros: ✔Open source Cons: ❌Doesnt run Doom
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Nick Bax.eth
2 months
If you have a @gridplus wallet that you use as cold storage, it is imperative that you update it, otherwise it will brick itself. I used this device as cold storage so it sat unused under my desk for 2 years and yesterday it bricked itself. I wish they had notified me...
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
$47M in an unaudited smart contract...
@me_jango
jango.eth
3 years
If you don't like taking risks with your money, get that shit out of the ConstitutionDAO's juicebox project ASAP. These are all open smart contracts, this one has a 11,000+ E bounty on it right now. Or find someone other than I that can look through the code and run tests.
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Nick Bax.eth
5 years
@CMichaelGibson Yes. N95 masks should be reserved for HCPs until they're more widespread but even simple homemade masks can lower the spread of the virus. The head of the Chinese CDC says that the virus is shed by droplets emitted during speech.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
Chaining 4 exploits to trace stolen $$ only to find out the hacker is blowing it all in ponzis.
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@tier10k We got 'em.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@Bitboy_Crypto @Pluto_Alliance I took a quick look at @Pluto_Alliance using @Honest_NFT tools and noticed a few red flags. 1. The API is down so I had to scrape rarity data from 2. The NFTs appear to not be randomly distributed 3. One account clearly "anomalously lucky".
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Nick Bax.eth
5 years
@CMichaelGibson Furthermore, Asian countries, which have less of a stigma against wearing masks in public, have been able to slow the spread much more than any Western countries (obviously there are other things they're doing right as well) but the masks certainly can't hurt.
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Nick Bax.eth
9 months
@BillLou95 also now I have like $600 stuck in your wallet because it bugs out when I try to view my stETH to transfer it.
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@banterlytics @SebsDead_ @0xShitTrader @LooksRareNFT CT yesterday: LOL WHAT A DUMBASS WHY WOULD YOU PUT $160M IN YOUR PUBLIC ENS HAVE FUN GETTING HACKED CT today: LOL WHY WOULD YOU SEND $70M TO TORNADO CASH IF YOU WERENT EXIT SCAMMING
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
@iheartstonks "How a guy lost $250 gambling and we earned $500 in ad revenue by writing a clickbait article about it"
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Nick Bax.eth
2 years
@MarcHochstein so basically a bunch of MIT kids started a benthamic sex cult, enthralled VCs, and then scammed us for 10 billy
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Nick Bax.eth
3 years
I haven't taken a close look at the on-chain activity yet. 🔎 It will certainly uncover the winners and the losers, but attaching real world names to accounts is challenging and it will be difficult to prove that the "winners" of this game weren't just lucky.
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