This Incident unfolded today, an attacker who targeted dormant Ethereum wallets drained about 261 eth to a single wallet, he had cracked the private keys of about hundreds of low entropy, inactive eth wallets from 2019 downward, then moved the coins through multiple cross-chain protocols like thorchains, uniswap, and Magpie router, to make the process hard to trace.

The Ethereum network is said to be safe, this attacker happened to own a tool that is stronger or capable of decrypting the randomness of private keys generated through early Ethereum wallet tools like pre-2019 brainwallets, browser-based key creation utilities, vanity address generators etc.

These tools are now obsolete and weak to sophisticated cracking tools currently owned by attackers in recent times, this is the closest reason to why the attacker had the private keys of all the wallets he drained. Users with dormant wallets are advised to move their funds from vulnerable wallets that enabled generating keys from tools with low entropy, to modern wallets like ledger Nano for proper security on the network.


https://startupfortune.com/hundreds-of-dormant-ethereum-wallets-were-drained-and-the-attack-pattern-points-to-something-more-troubling-than-a-typical-exploit/


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Year after year, Canada's debt deficits peaks higher than it was in the previous year, Last year the bank of Canada printed $19.3 billion, and this year, the number increased to $25.5 billion, to fight debt deficit. Apparently, the total debt owed by the government has surpassed the $1.445 trillion projected last year November 4th, to sit at $1.487 trillion in the space of five months. According to the Canadian debt clock, I've never seen a clock move so fast as this, the Government borrows $237.8 million per day, $165,144.60 per minute, or $2,752.41 per second. Leaving every single citizen with an equivalent of $34,708 in debt.

On X many users blame it on Carney, the president, some called out on Liberals, while many others in the real estate feels like it's a housing problem, but I disagree to what they think is the problem with Canada, this fast progression to a debt trap has one root cause, that stems from fertility rate or birth rate. Canada is a good example to debunk the notion that reducing birthrate boosts economy, it does the exact opposite, Canada is among the countries with 'ultra low' fertility, nearly 1 in 4 Canadian women in their 40s don't have kids, birth rate dropped by a lot, thereby requiring mass immigration to fill up the gap, as the rate of workers increasingly went down.

Naturally, I do not believe that children won't survive because the economy is too harsh or things are too expensive to train them, people bought that idea, and it's draining the world population entirely.

Canadian men and women have one job to do, which is to accept within them that they could grow their own children, and abolish the thought that the life around them is too costly to train more than a child. Doing so, over the period of a decade or two the economy would get better with population increase, than paper money increase. Printing more money will only kill the economical structure of the country, and the country will end up being flooded by immigrants, leaving the nation with more deficits than they could ever think of or imagine.

Last year August a supposed drunk who was celebrating the national Swiss day (August 1) used tools, maybe a mini Angle Grinder, to cut the statue into pieces and threw the remnant into the Lugano lake, remember it was later fixed by the municipal workers who transformed the statue in a kintsugi Inspired style and reinstalled the Statue, which looked much better.

Today, April 19th, a fresh incident happened on same location by an unknown culprit, who vandalized the statue again, this is not upto one year since the last incident, the official page responsible for building this statue (satoshigallery) posted the information today, the community thought of it as an incident that's quite bad to the statue but doesn't harm the progression of bitcoin, with the emphasis that 'you can break the steal, but not it's meaning'.

At the moment, there are no information from the police about who did this, but it's quite unclear why people or a person would attack a peaceful decentralized statue of a great man.

Loneliness has thrived really well in the western world, young people aged 16-18 complain in multiple online channels like reddit about how consistent loneliness catches up with them in places like America for instance. Is it really something that is no longer considered a crisis? Because it's really tough how people go a day or week without having physical contacts with other bodies, maybe friends or family. Is it something that has helped the economy thrive over there too? As a result of self reliance and everyone looking out for themselves for ends meet.

I know it's an unfair comparison, considering the diversity between the two careers, Politicians focus more energy on public speaking while musicians follow up sounds with emotional approach, but these two control a tremendous number of fans, and talk to them steadily or occasionally, yet musicians fail to deliver strong speeches. Last few hours at the signing of the Trump Account in DC, Nicki Minaj, a famous US rapper was invited on stage to address the politicians in the room, her tone wasn't strong as it should have been on a musical performing stage, she barely had structured words to say or a story to tell, would I say she wasn't expecting to be called on stage, but from the low level confidence in tone she exhibited, her speech didn't end too well, she did fine though, but not as expected, I don't know if I'm taking it too far.

What do you think about the low level public speaking skill of musicians compared to politicians?



Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hLMhUqjQQY

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[ZachXBT]

One of the weirdest crypto theft has just happened with the son of the CEO of CMDSS - a platform that was awarded a contract to assist USMS (Marshals Service) in safeguarding forfeited crypto assets. Few days ago the young son of Dean Daghita named John was insulted or called out as poor in a telegram group by a fellow threat actor named Dritan, in quest to show how rich he is to everyone in the group he made transfers worth more than $40m to a wallet address tied to the $90m+ US forfeited crypto assets managed by his Father. The question which is yet to be unveiled even by the crypto investigator who shared the news ZachXBT remains that nobody knows how the boy got access to the US crypto wallet under his dad's watch.

Below is a thread on X about the traces and the recorded chats of the boy being broke shamed by a fellow threat actor, and when he made the transfers.

https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2014685263327351116

It's been more than a decade since Google and Microsoft turnedout to be rivals over market dominance; Chrome vs Explorer, Google search vs Bing, Google cloud vs Azure, Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace, Windows vs Chrome Os, the both companies topped Apple in market cap, but war and competition made them lose focus to Apple, in 2013, when they were both surpassed by Apple with $500 billion, while Google and Microsoft combined had $467 billion. It remained that way, unless for 2019 for a short time, not until this January when Google for the first time surpassed Apple with $3.98 trillion while apple market cap is $3.76 trillion, which growth was drown to the AI race, giving google a much better dominance in the market.

This example explains the huge negative impact of competition or turning competition into rivalry or war, it eliminates focus and creates enemity in the mind, which is the creator of new ideas and knowledge, when in business build a strong edge on focus, stay active in giving the best, and abandon competition, it distracts the goals you've set and brings down the value the company once created, for focusing on a war that has no purpose or meaning. Think about this, and share your thoughts or experience.

Late Scott Adams an American Cartoonist and Author gave out his last message which he shared on his Twitter handle about his begining days as an author and how he gave his life to Christ for readers to reminisce on what may be a life changing read, especially on his books which impacted people's life. Scott while alive ran a podcast - 'coffee with Scott' which he talked about Bitcoin, and was known for saying, "Bitcoin is one of the greatest pieces of persuasion the world's ever seen", noting that Satoshi used the psychology of scarcity, hipness and greed to persuade or convince people to adopt Bitcoin and handle it as a store of value. He's known for his contributions in words about the Bitcoin technology, and as an influencer in the US political background.

Iranian christians are about 300k on estimate and there are approximately 600 churches in the nation, but this recent development got everyone shocked, why an Islamic nation would fill up a metro station with Christian sculptures. From my understanding of this approach Iran has 3 seats reserved in their parliament for christians, and the Tehran where this station resides, consists of half the population of Iranian christians, who are of the Armenian ethnic group. Armenians are citizens of Iran with 99% of Christians, who mostly left the country during the Iran -Iraq war in the 80s. All of that portrays how the nation isn't as bad as the media paints it to look towards people of other religions. I noticed also in this X post that, the Jews also have 1 seat reserved in the parliament, which was made so that the minority religious groups could participate in the legislative body of Iran.

Do you think Iran is trying to show the world that they're not what the western world think they are ?








The second to last image is the St Sarkis Armenian Cathedral in Tehran, which looks this way in actual representation.


Source: https://x.com/cafecoolo/status/1977847631943512387

Recently, I got to notice that going through a certain stage in life don't validate the fact that we know the reason, purpose and action behind them. But unconsciously the brain go through most circumstances as though it knew what was going on. But after every year we begin to picture our past troubles differently and define them uniquely. E.g People begin to point out who was the actual culprit maybe years after when someone else was the accused. Maybe the way you explained it to someone today may be different from how you would add to it in the next 5 years. Because you are understanding deeply about the situation everytime you wonder about it and how it all went by without much casualties.

Atimes things that never got us weeping when it occured, could cause a loud cry 10 years later when somebody else goes few layers back to make you understand better what really happened, and helps you see the dots, and at that moment you'll be able to see clearly why certain things happened in a period of time and the story turns out clearer and visible, enough to throw a person back on the floor, or scream at a loud voice.

There could be different examples to this, but each experience has unique contexts and if you could relate to this please share your contributions, thanks.

As the price the increase na em we de move from one fire source to another; Kero, charcoal, and gas. All of a sudden na the 3 we de use hold body as the price of gas the increase like Bitcoin, but this time, na frustration e de put for our body. All area way we for fit slide the issue don block, even Kero them increase to #1300 or 1400, depending on the area. Charcoal for help settle the matter but the smoke fit choke person for kitchen.

As I read Business day, I come see some varieties of prices per 5kg according to areas or states in Nigeria;

1. Delta state na em e cost past at #9243.38
2. Cross river come follow with #9193.16
3. Rivers state come be #9,188.51

Them say na south south get the highest regional average for 5kg cylinder way sit for around #8,871.63. So wetin you think say cause this price hike, because as of last year na like 15k them use the refill 12.5kg cylinder but today na over #21,000. One woman say she don de teach her children to adapt to chop cold food, area really red, but we gats know say the price no go ever come down if Naija no stop to the Import liquefied petroleum gas needs, e de expose price make e de volatile based on global market.

E be like na firewood go later settle this matter pass Nigerian government. Make we chook mouth for this matter abeg.

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These top 100 centralized bodies, groups or corporation now hold close to 1 million bitcoin, and from what I could say they started buying Bitcoin a little less than 5 years ago and look where they're at today. On the side of decentralized users: People who held since 16 years ago, which makes up some whales, and holders, then the lost Bitcoin. I'd want to center on the lost Bitcoin, as the real decentralized bitcoin since most holders and whales are moving back and forth from centralized to decentralized firms. So, we have about 4 million bitcoin allocated to the lost coins, and that has to do with the early adopters who bought at a much lesser rate and weren't lucky to safeguard their private keys.

Basically, lost coins boost the value of Bitcoin, and the centralized bodies are getting close to surpasing that threshold. Now, who is richer, is it the centralized body that may at some point sell their holdings after much accumulations, and affect the standards of Bitcoin price, or the decentralized groups that'll never sell no matter what, including the lost ones which will never be sold, just to keep Bitcoin price enticing for the centralized firms that's well known to sell and covert to fiat.

Richer in this context varies from wealth of money, fulfillments, to people, who owns the most people could go to the centralized body, but the decentralized group holds much Bitcoin mined from day 1, never to be sold. What do you think about this new emerging buying force in contrast to the OGs, and whales who can't access their coins.

[Bitcoin philosophy Sunday: obsession.]

This was part of the discussion in today's X space talk, topic: Bitcoin philosophy Sunday: obsession. The conversation held right on two terms 'extremism' and 'obsession' these two were dragged for a long time but the talk stopped at obsession. That it could drive people to healthy or unhealthy extremism. How do we get people to be obsessed about the technology? Or what is actually needed from a Bitcoin obsessed person?

These are some of the questions that was treated, but one good other person asked, if it's right to be obsessed about Bitcoin or whether it's much preferable to be obsessed about our skills. He continued; Bitcoin is just money, and why should people be obsessed about it, they're other things much worthwhile like staying dedicated to things we could create. The follow up to the above statement, centered on the value of Bitcoin being worthful of obsession. That it should be obsessive to hold a currency like Bitcoin that increases in value.

Let's discuss.

He didn't give an adequate personal answer to the question, but he kept on saying that if the US didn't get hold of crypto China would have done it and that was his main reason of investing into the industry. He even made mention of how he impacted the market positively, but wasn't sure if his kids or himself will deassociate, for a while, from participating in crypto, because the Democrats wouldn't vote on that bill if Trump's family is a huge part of the industry. The bill has been lingering for a little while.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdHE4-XB_JY

Over the years the only experience that matters as a bitcoiner are these two communication skills; Spoken and written. Having both is much more beneficial than holding one of it. Aside that being a bitcoiner doesn't mean you should know everything about the network and neglect the ability of sharing it amongst people around you, without shoving it down their throat.

Advocacy I would say does to us what membership is to the human body. It makes the whole process complete and natural, the best contribution about this technology could be from a close friend who knows nothing about it, but after a brief conversation on the ecosystem they pick up immediately and do something unique. Had Hal Finey hid his knowledge of Bitcoin from his wife, the running Bitcoin initiative would have a lesser performance by now, because that woman is doing a great job in maintaining the project left by her husband.

In Bitcoin 2025 conference, CEO of mIcro strategy, Micheal added communication amongst his 21 ways to wealth as a bitcoiner. He used himself as an example, saying that a lot of people knew Bitcoin before him but today he's an advocate and speaks to CEOs, Top business men across the world about Bitcoin. However he never mentioned what made him change his mind, because he must have been among the people who knew Bitcoin earlier and didn't consider doing it immediately.

In the forum, here, every member advances in written communication as it's a must have skill needed to show full membership in the community. I bet you a lot of people have been here before a lot of us, but chose not to write. Maybe they prefer talking or doing what the domain name says. But in the real world, spoken communication has shown a much better impact on the ecosystem. People watch conferences at home and some attend, it's a solid skill to consider practicing, the first move and they'll be no going back.

On the other hand, The AI is distracting our loved ones and we've learnt how bad it is to our families who don't get taught about it, as bitcoiners allowing those tools to take all of our social currencies from us could put us in a bad shape or in the hand of a market manipulated by something we wouldn't be able to convince to stop from doing what it's doing.

In a nutshell, being able to address a room filled with thousands of people about Bitcoin is a thing that's coming to everyone of us at a fast speed, soon these conferences will be done close to our societies and it'll be fun to attend and talk as well. So, it's best it doesn't meet us as a surprise.

What are your advances in spoken communication, especially when answering questions asked by a fella about crypto or Bitcoin. Share your thoughts,  cheers.

Yesterday, 30th of May marked the celebration of a well known crop 'potato, farmed across the world. Also recognized for its availability in times of frugrality and hunger. Potatoes are crops that lifts zero hunger in the world, I could remember a time in my state when they was a high price of imported goods, people went back to eating potatoes and it saved us all from being hungry. Moreover, this day is remembered to signify that this crop provides employment to millions of farmers in the world; mostly women.

In past unforgettable events like the world WAR II, - Potatoes helped to feed humans during shortage. It's been a lifelong food and have been a type of crop I enjoy eating, do you farm this crop or only feed on it?



https://www.fao.org/international-potato-day/en

Trump in a meeting with the South African President got easily aggressive on the NBC reporter after he asked an off topic question regarding the Plane gifted to the US Airforce by the Qatar government, after seeing the Genocide video of white south African farmers. In as much as the reporter's question wasn't in line with the current conversation in the oval office, he shouldn't have embarrassed him that way. Presumably Trump hates the NBC news, in general, and even extended his anger on Brian Roberts and all other people who run the platform.

What do you think about such a reaction in the midst of the South African President?

https://youtu.be/nbt3W_cWspg?si=QiJtcAkOuj3-4yCW

The SEC has always stayed abstracted on crypto yet own little understanding of the system. The 60 days pause on the Binance 2023 court filing is to accentuate the new laws placed by the crypto taskforce on digital assets and reach out to a term on ways it could work for both parties, and the general crypto users or investors.

Who knows exactly the kind of settlement the SEC are proposing within this interval? The SEC are uncertain of what they want to do with crypto or digital assets regulation, their officials need to read further about how it operate - one sec official mentioned, during the crypto round table yesterday, that she doesn't understand how the prices work. If placing laws on digital assets was that simple they wouldn't have been any need for the 'taskforce'



https://x.com/EleanorTerrett/status/1910794348435820620

Twoscore and 14 years ago, (an archaic way of saying 54 years ago ) when fiat was no longer fixed to gold, and the beginning of the end of Bretton Woods system, investors never gave gold a real going over anymore. On a recent note, because Gold is undervalued and also the new highhanded attitude of world leaders on trade, renowned investors are now going about holding gold as a capable hedge to inflation.

The first time it happened was in 1980s during the great inflation, gold price per ounce got to a high standard rate of $850. Today Gold did $3200 per ounce, which means that investment analyst may have foreseen hyperinflation, and is advising investors to run back to gold.

Moreover, experts presume that if people embraced gold, it’s expected to hit $7500 per ounce. What do you think about investing in Gold?



https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/gold-prices-climb-over-1-trump-hikes-china-tariffs-2025-04-10/

The chaos small businesses will encounter within this tough tariff moment, won’t halt the great relationship the both leaders share. Maybe it would, when pigs fly, yet their goals should be questionable. Are they trying to reap off the big companies and replenish the small businesses in future for the losses they’ve gone through…Robinhood.

I saw a meme that showed planes flying apple phones to the united state to avoid tariffs. Ackman said in his interview, small businesses will get crushed, then the medium sized companies would follow. The government is trying as much as possible to avoid peanuts, only the billion-dollar companies could stand this dog and cat fight - apple invested $500 billion in the United States.

This amount of money sound too large to Trump such that peanuts won’t move his attention.  He’s likely to use the generated funds to clear debts. If he does that the economy may get affected for a while, it’s best to channel the wealth back to the nation and increase business opportunities for the people. My question is; what do you think the ongoing economic joke of raising tariff to more than a 100%, would result to?

   

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