February 21, 2022       /       Unchained Daily       /       Laura Shin

Daily Bits ✍️✍️✍️

  • Nexo, a crypto lender, has stopped paying ardour on recent deposits from US customers.

  • The Fed approved a rule restricting officers from proudly owning particular particular person stocks, bonds, crypto, and other sources.

  • A assume ordered Terraform Labs to conform with SEC subpoenas.

  • Coinbase rewarded a researcher $250,000 for discovering a trojan horse which will need been “market-nuking.”

  • Worn Presidential candidate Andrew Yang launchedLobby3, a DAO targeted on organising a crypto lobbying push in Washington.

  • In light of the Canada protests, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell suggested users pondering about authorities seizure to switch their funds off crypto exchanges (in conjunction with Kraken).

This present day in Crypto Adoption…

  • Senator Cynthia Lummis thinks it may per chance perchance well be a “big idea” for the Federal Reserve so that you just can add BTC to its balance sheet.

  • Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, said the utter will gain crypto for taxes in costs by this summer.

The $$$ Corner…

  • Helium raised $200 million in a Series D valuing the network at $1.2 billion.


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What’s Poppin’?

OpenSea Became Hacked – However No longer Genuinely

By Trace Murdock

Slack Saturday evening, reviews surfaced that NFTs on OpenSea were being transferred from addresses without the householders’ permission in what appears to be a phishing rip-off.

“It appears 32 users to this point maintain signed a malicious payload from an attacker, and some of their NFTs were stolen,” wroteOpenSea CEO Devin Finzer. “Now we maintain self belief that this modified into as soon as a phishing assault,” he added. “We don’t know where the phishing happened, but we’ve been able to rule out plenty of things in step with our conversations with the 32 affected users.”

In step with Finzer, the assault did no longer occur on any OpenSea-linked web online page, honest contract, or electronic mail.

The hacker modified into as soon as able to grab plenty of precious NFTs, in conjunction with…

  • 17 Azuki NFTs (fee flooring = 13.64 ETH)

  • 3 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs (flooring fee = 93 ETH)

  • 1 Doodle NFT (fee flooring = 12.8 ETH)

OpenSea CTO Nadav Hollander, in a tweet thread recapping the phishing rip-off, explained the rip-off modified into as soon as almost definitely a “targeted assault instead of a systemic declare.” He believes that the phishing rip-off originated from off-chain messages (i.e., signing a message to affix a whitelist, raffle, or token gated Discord group). Hollander moreover worthy that OpenSea may per chance perchance well be helping victims of the assault, despite the undeniable truth that it stemmed from initiate air the NFT marketplace.

Punk6529, a worthy NFT influencer, and threadooor, suggested that users revoke all permissions to OpenSea. “As soon as you happen to are concerned, the most rep factor to discontinue to revoke permissions to opensea for precious NFTs to your pockets right here: revoke dot cash (it may per chance well fee gas).”


Instructed Reads

  1. NYT’s Nathaniel Popper on how he fell down the NFT rabbit hole:

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  1. Galaxy Digital on Avalanche:

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  1. @gonbegood on whether stolen BAYC NFTs restful belong to the current proprietor or no longer:

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On The Pod…

Congressman Ro Khanna: The correct diagram to Salvage More Democrats into Web3

Congressman Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, discusses crypto and decentralization, his recent e book, Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us, and the diagram in which to govern the crypto industry. Display cloak highlights:

  • what Silicon Valley needed to discontinue with Congressman Khanna’s trip down the crypto rabbit hole

  • why Congressman Khanna is so obsessed on decentralization

  • why Congressman Khanna thinks crypto may per chance perchance well declare tech jobs across the country and world (in diagram of staying in hubs like Silicon Valley)

  • why Congressman Khanna thinks a recent regulatory regime is major for crypto sources, like stablecoins

  • what Congressman Khanna would like vocal crypto opponents like Congressman Brad Sherman or Senator Elizabeth Warren to grab referring to the crypto diagram

  • Congressman Khanna explains the adaptation between figuring out if an asset is a security and regulating an asset

  • what Congressman Khanna is doing to declare predictability to crypto regulation

  • how regulators may per chance perchance well incentivize Bitcoin miners to make exercise of less strength

  • what Congressman Khanna thinks about know-your-buyer/anti-cash-laundering mechanisms within the DeFi world

  • how Congressman Khanna believes crypto taxes needs to be handled

  • what actions Congressman Khanna recommends for bringing extra Democrats to the crypto side

  • whether Congressman Khanna thinks crypto is a bipartisan declare


E-book Change

My e book, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Enormous Cryptocurrency Craze, is now readily available for pre-direct now.

The e book, which is all about Ethereum and the 2017 ICO mania, comes out Feb. 22. Pre-direct it currently!

It’s possible you’ll perchance well have the ability to get it right here: http://bit.ly/cryptopians