💰 Crypto hacks are down big in February: only about $49M lost. No miracle security breakthrough though.

Attackers realized it is easier to trick users into signing approvals than to break smart contracts.

Social engineering remains the best exploit in the industry.

🧠 Everyone on the internet is very confident about what will happen next. But give us a chance to put money on our prediction and suddenly the confidence becomes… more precise.

100% certainty goes to 63%, and turns out forecasts look very different once there’s something at stake.

🫠 Every time technology makes work more efficient, companies discover a new miracle: more work.

A new analysis of 443 million hours of workplace activity found that AI tools are NOT reducing workloads. People send more messages, switch between more apps, and spend less time on focused work.

Anyway, happy weekend. Hope your notifications take a day off.

💥 When Bloomberg strategist said Bitcoin could fall to $10K, other analysts responded that it would take something like a nuclear war to get there.

Apparently, the Geopolitical Apocalypse Index is a thing now.

💸 Someone swapped $50.4M in USDT and received about $36K worth of AAVE.

This is what happens when a huge order goes through a thin liquidity pool. The algorithm keeps filling the trade at worse and worse prices until the swap finishes.

In other words, the market happily sells you the most expensive tokens on Earth.

Small reminder for anyone using DEXs: set a slippage limit.

🤖 Have you heard about China’s “cyber confession rooms”?

They’re posts or livestreams built around an empty room, where people anonymously share everything from procrastination to debt and personal struggles.

Apparently, the most relatable content on the internet is everyone struggling at the same time.

🤦‍♂️ Apparently someone “finally” figured out who Banksy is, again.

At this point just tell kids about Santa too and get it over with.

🔍 The case of the vanishing keys. In 2014, Clifton Collins lost 6,000 BTC. Private keys written on paper were thrown out during a house clearance.

$423M were gone... Or so the story goes.

Last week, after 10 years of complete silence, the wallet labeled "Clifton Collins: Lost Keys" moved. 500 BTC straight to Coinbase.

Someone has those keys.

The question is — did they just find them? Or did they never lose them? 👀

☺️ Work from home might be the most effective population policy.

Stanford says remote work is linked to higher fertility. Turns out cutting the commute leaves people with better ways to spend their time.

🦘 Crypto payments are rising in Australia while banks keep blocking transfers.

Nothing makes people question the system faster than being told they can’t use their own money.

💳 Mastercard is launching a system to turn crypto payments into fiat instantly for businesses.

I wouldn't call it disruption, more like integration. Which is usually how things win.