Trust everyone but cut the cards

I have built a spreadsheet. It has 847 rows. Each row is a community bank in the United States with a market cap below $200 million, a price-to-tangible-book ratio under 0.85, a non-performing loan ratio below 0.4%, and a CEO who has been in the role for at least twelve years. I update it every Sunday from 6 AM to 11 AM while my family attends church without me. I have visited the headquarters of nineteen of these banks in person. I have eaten a complimentary lobby cookie at each one. The cookies are how you can tell. A bank with a good cookie is a bank that respects its depositors. A bank with a stale cookie is a bank that will be acquired within 36 months at a 40% premium. I am never wrong about the cookies. The cookies have never lied to me. The cookies are the only thing left that tells the truth.

A security researcher just documented a large-scale counterfeit Ledger Nano S Plus operation selling compromised devices across multiple online marketplaces. The fake units look identical to the real thing but contain completely different hardware. Instead of Ledger's secure element chip, the counterfeits run an ESP32 microcontroller with modified firmware labeled "Nano S V2.1." Seeds and PINs are stored in plain text and transmitted to attacker-controlled servers. Any wallet initialized on the device is drained. The operation goes beyond the hardware. The sellers also distribute a fake version of Ledger Live built with React Native and signed with a debug certificate. It intercepts transactions and exfiltrates sensitive data to multiple command-and-control servers. The campaign spans five attack vectors: compromised hardware, Android APKs, Windows executables, macOS installers, and iOS apps distributed through TestFlight to bypass App Store review. This comes days after ZachXBT documented a separate fake Ledger Live app that made it through Apple's Mac App Store review process. That operation drained over $9.5 million from more than 50 victims, including musician G. Love, who lost 5.92 BTC after entering his recovery phrase into what he believed was the legitimate app. The pattern is clear: the attack surface for hardware wallet users has shifted from firmware exploits to supply chain and distribution fraud. The devices themselves remain secure. The problem is that users are being intercepted before they ever touch a real one. Ledger's own "genuine check" feature can be bypassed when the hardware itself is compromised at the source, which makes where you buy the device as important as how you use it. The rules haven't changed, but they've never been more important: buy hardware wallets only from the manufacturer. Never enter your recovery phrase into any software. If a companion app asks for your 24 words on a screen, it's a scam. Every time.

Why don’t they just tokenize the oil in the Middle East and transport it across permissionless financial rails, thereby avoiding the Strait of Hormuz altogether

We never should have let CZ out of prison

This is the coldest life advice you’ll hear

i can't believe this shit actually works

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My Plan B if my crypto plan won't work out

How I'm splitting my stablecoin yield farming. 1. 20% 'degen looping' aiming for 45% APY. I use mostly @Contango_xyz and @eulerfinance here. High-maintenance, have to keep a close eye on supply and borrow rate. 2. 30% 'fixed' yield with @pendle_fi PTs aiming for 12% PY. I go for anything that is over 3 months long and with enough liquidity that my yield doesn't get rekt by slippage. 3. 50% 'set and forget' aiming for 6-8% APY. Previously used Aave or Compound. Now all in @gauntlet_xyz USD Alpha. 8.03% and planning to have this one run long term without changing as it auto allocates to vaults, claims and compounds rewards and I don't have to keep an eye on it. I've been able to maintain a healthy 14 % APY on stables which I've been super happy with. I mean DeFi is so much superior than whatever you can get in TradFi savings it's crazy. I may rebalance, mostly down-risk, depending on how much time I can allocate to keeping an eye on rates, opps etc... Always mindful of smart contract risk so hedging across multiple strats.

The Conviction Market just got funded! Led by @cyberfund & @Delphi_Ventures with backing from some of the sharpest minds in the space with the highest conviction ;) Prediction markets were the prototype. Conviction Markets are the evolution. @xomarket Here is my story: 🧵

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In 2022, McKinsey was paid $55M to advise Warner Brothers to combine with Discovery. From 2022-2025, McKinsey charged Warner Brothers Discovery $37M by advising the company to change HBO to HBO Max, then to Max, then back to HBO Max. In 2025, McKinsey billed Warner Brothers Discovery an additional $63M to determine that Warner Brothers and Discovery should be separate brands again.

Elon knows the games the media plays, so he decided to mess with them at the cabinet meeting by writing "Top Secret" on his note pad, knowing they would be snapping pics of his notes / phone. 😂

crypto bros cooking dinner tonight

PayPal 🤝 Solana SOL is coming to Venmo and PayPal — bringing Solana to users around the world with just a few taps.

1/ New episode – Building the Infrastructure for Onchain Fixed Income Products with @mytwogweis from @TreehouseFi Hosts: @richhomiecon and @jimmyfpe We discuss: - Discovering the risk-free rate onchain - Liquid staking, rehypothecation, and capital efficiency - Why DORs (decentralized offer rates) > LIBOR/SOFR Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 03:09 - Brandon's Transition from TradFi to Crypto 05:12 - Core Concepts of Borrowing Rates in TradFi 07:59 - On-Chain Rates and Their Implications 09:05 - Comparing Bitcoin and Ethereum as Risk-Free Rates 12:22 - Staking Yield as a Risk-Free Rate Analogy 14:08 - Liquid Staking Explained 21:34 - Treehouse's T-Asset Product Overview 23:46 - Decentralized Finance and Risk Considerations 29:30 - Institutional Involvement in DeFi 31:12 - Expanding to Other Chains and Market Strategy 32:34 - Introduction to Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR) 41:34 - Building a Decentralized Benchmark Rate 48:09 - Incentives and Accuracy in the DOR Framework Watch on all platforms below ⬇️

🚨🇪🇺 Geo-Political Scholar Jeffrey Sachs Schools the EU Parliament on the reasons behind the Russia Ukraine Conflict. Every-time Legacy Media or a Politician states the was is “unprovoked” is a complete lie. This doesn’t even include some of the more grotesque activities Ukraine has been well documented as being involved in.

While everyone’s focused on Trump, Microsoft created a new state of matter. It's going to change everything. Here's what you need to know about Microsoft's Majorana 1 Quantum Chip:🧵