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James Prestwich
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crypto unc programming and deprogramming
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    James Prestwich
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    Feb 17
    Replying to @standotsui
    hot take my takes are hot because i'm hot
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    James Prestwich
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    Apr 8, 2021
    BitClout uploads your keys to their server on every API request. Any employee with access to that server can steal all the money on the platform at any time @nadertheory and team are too incompetent to build a browser wallet, so they decided not to 🤷‍♀️ 10 pbkdf iterations 💀
    private key material being uploaded to a server
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    James Prestwich
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    Oct 21, 2018
    Think of a blockchain as a DB but writing to it sucks and querying it also sucks and also the maintainers hate you
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    James Prestwich
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    Oct 9, 2022
    crypto is hard money - hard to use - hard to understand - hard to custody - hard to program
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    James Prestwich
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    Jun 29, 2022
    PoS staking withdrawal delays: Near & Solana - 3 days Cosmos - 21 days Polkadot - 28 days Eth2 - til the sky turns to ash and melkor breaks the doors of night and turín meets him in battle and the silmarils are returned from sky earth and sea and men join in the song of ilúv
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    James Prestwich
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    Jan 19, 2021
    btc is energy storage in the same way shit is food storage
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    James Prestwich
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    Sep 13, 2021
    Happy to say that the Optics Bridge is live on Ethereum, Celo, and Polygon. You can bridge any ERC-20 token between any supported network Read down for more info 👇 medium.com/celoorg/optics…
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    James Prestwich
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    Dec 26, 2022
    Wrote down my experience with MEV research, and the people who drove it to maturity
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    MEV: The First Five Years
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    James Prestwich
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    Dec 15, 2019
    Satoshi is literally the only founder who didn't sell the top
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    James Prestwich
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    Aug 13, 2020
    YAM Summary 🍠😭🍠😭 - There was a severe bug in the rebase logic - Governance CANNOT HAPPEN anymore - $750,000 in Curve y tokens are locked in the governance - Staking pools are safe as far as we know - Every 12 hours more y tokens are locked - Get out of the YAM uniswap NOW!
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    James Prestwich
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    Oct 21, 2021
    every chain you make every coin you stake every arb you take every TEZ you bake I'll be watching you
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    James Prestwich
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    Oct 6, 2021
    a16z team page getting crowded
    crowded smash brothers roster page
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    James Prestwich
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    Mar 20, 2021
    For anyone wondering about bitclout it's just your standard influencer-pandering tirefire 1. "Shoot yourself in the foot to log in." 2. Connect your phone number to your private key 3. It's like a twitter clone but everyone is an ad 👇More thread 👇
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    James Prestwich
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    Jan 30, 2023
    Hello, today we are disclosing two critical trusted-party vulnerabilities in the LayerZero smart contracts. These issues allow the LayerZero team to completely bypass the Oracle and Relayer for most applications (including stargate).
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    prestwich.substack.com
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    Admin Forgery in LayerZero
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