DeFi protocols depend on a handful of oracle networks for critical pricing data, creating centralization risks that undermine decentralization promises. Opinion by: Will Fey, Co-Founder and Smart Contract Developer at Ammalgam We talk about oracles like they’re plumbing: an invisible utility that keeps prices flowing into protocols. Oracles are not neutral infrastructure. They’re dependencies. Over time, they’ve become political ones. DeFi is built on a promise: permissionless markets, composable systems and minimized trust. Read more
Learn how DCA works in crypto: when to use it, key risks, fees, El Salvador’s example and how it compares to lump-sum investing and other strategies. DCA is a trading strategy that uses automated, small, regular buys to stay invested without trying to time every move. There’s a clear precedent for scalability: El Salvador has been publicly DCA’ing 1 BTC per day since Nov. 17, 2022. However, lump-sum investing often wins in uptrends — historically outperforming DCA about two-thirds of the time. Read more
Researchers have uncovered a new Android vulnerability that allows malicious apps to reconstruct on-screen content, such as recovery phrases and two-factor authentication codes. A newly discovered Android vulnerability enables malicious applications to access content displayed by other apps, potentially compromising crypto wallet recovery phrases, two-factor authentication (2FA) codes and more. According to a recent research paper, the “Pixnapping” attack “bypasses all browser mitigations and can even steal secrets from non-browser apps.” This is possible by leveraging Android application programming interfaces (API) to calculate the content of a specific pixel displayed by a different application. This is not as simple as the malicious application requesting and accessing the display content of another application. Instead, it layers a stack of attacker-controlled, semi-transparent activities to mask all but a chosen pixel, then manipulates that pixel so its color dominates the frame. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more