Why is it that nowadays,,, ugliness is positively *prized* as an attribute?

Note:

Ugly clothes, ugly art, ugly fashion, ugly faces, ugly bodies ….

The will to ugliness?

Simple thoughts:

First, just paint it more bright colors! Bright orange, bright yellow, bright red.

Also— I feel bad for doctors who gotta work here all day… indoors ,,, so depressing?

Besides surgery .. would it be possible to do doctor related stuff outdoors or in a nice park?

Throw all the medicines into the sea! – Spartan saying

We all desire novelty. But instead of buying new stuff for novelty… a better idea is that you could just program things, or change things up in terms of the software and colors and lights, to make it feel new?

Note— the totally brand new redesign Tesla model 3, with the interior accent lights. What I find insanely great is literally… you can change it to any hexadecimal color scheme you want!

Especially since the new Tesla model three, the totally new redesigned one… has a new cool interior decorator accent light!! Superficially it looks gimmicky, but I think it is insanely cool, especially because you could literally change it to any RGB value you want!!!

Easier to change up your interior light color scheme than to buy a totally brand new car!

Programmable novelty?

Hospitals … why do they feel so ghetto!!???

The creation of Sub-Zero, like many characters in the “Mortal Kombat” franchise, was a collaborative effort primarily led by the game’s co-creators, Ed Boon and John Tobias. The process involved a mix of creative design, technical limitations, and cultural influences of the early 1990s. Here’s a brief overview:

1. Initial Concept and Design: Sub-Zero was conceived as a mysterious, cool, and powerful ninja character. The decision to give him ice powers was part of differentiating the various characters in the game, each with their unique abilities.
2. Influence of Technical Limitations: The original “Mortal Kombat” game used digitized sprites based on real actors. The use of palette swapping (changing the colors of an existing character sprite) was a cost-effective way to create multiple characters. Sub-Zero’s design was a palette swap of the ninja character Scorpion, with blue coloring instead of yellow.
3. Cultural Influences: The early 90s saw a surge in the popularity of ninja characters in Western media, influenced by martial arts movies and Asian culture. Sub-Zero’s ninja-like appearance and mystical powers were a reflection of this trend.
4. Character Backstory: The backstory of Sub-Zero was developed to add depth to the character and the game’s universe. This included his rivalry with Scorpion, his membership in the Lin Kuei clan, and his moral complexity as a character torn between duty and honor.
5. Evolution over Time: Sub-Zero’s character evolved over the years with subsequent games in the series. This included the revelation of two Sub-Zero characters (brothers Bi-Han and Kuai Liang), expanding their lore and roles within the “Mortal Kombat” universe.

The combination of a visually striking design, unique abilities, and a compelling backstory made Sub-Zero one of the most iconic and enduring characters in the “Mortal Kombat” series and in video gaming as a whole.

Sub-Zero is a fictional character from the “Mortal Kombat” series of video games, created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. He’s one of the franchise’s most iconic characters, known for his ice-based attacks and rivalry with the ninja Scorpion. Sub-Zero has appeared in nearly every “Mortal Kombat” game since its inception in 1992.

There are actually two characters who have taken on the Sub-Zero moniker in the series:

1. Bi-Han: The original Sub-Zero, appearing in the first “Mortal Kombat” game. He was killed by Scorpion and later became the undead Noob Saibot.
2. Kuai Liang: The younger brother of Bi-Han, who took over the Sub-Zero mantle from “Mortal Kombat II” onwards. He is the Sub-Zero most commonly featured in the series.

Sub-Zero is a member of the Lin Kuei, a fictional clan of Chinese assassins, and is characterized by his deep sense of honor and duty. His ability to control ice in many forms is a key aspect of his character, allowing him to freeze enemies and create weapons or barriers of ice. Over the years, Sub-Zero has been a central figure in the “Mortal Kombat” storyline, often playing a pivotal role in the battle between good and evil.

Subzero goals!

The celebration of birthdays has a long history and varies across different cultures. Here’s a brief overview:

1. Ancient Origins: The idea of celebrating the date of one’s birth is thought to have originated with the Egyptians, who celebrated the birth of a pharaoh, considering it their “rebirth” as a god. However, these celebrations weren’t on the actual day of birth, but rather when the pharaoh was crowned.
2. Greek Contributions: The Greeks added to the birthday tradition by honoring their gods and goddesses on their birthdays. The most famous of these was the celebration of Artemis’ birth on the sixth day of each month.
3. Roman Customs: The Romans were the first to celebrate the birthdays of the common man, but only the birthdays of men. Women’s birthdays began being celebrated around the 12th century. The Romans also instituted the celebration of the 50th year with a special cake made of wheat flour, olive oil, honey, and grated cheese, which could be considered an early form of the birthday cake.
4. Christian Resistance and Acceptance: Initially, Christians did not celebrate birthdays because they were associated with pagan gods. However, by the 4th century, Christians began to celebrate the birth of Jesus as Christmas. This eventually led to a more general acceptance of birthday celebrations.
5. Modern Times: In contemporary times, birthday celebrations can include parties, gifts, songs (like the famous “Happy Birthday to You”), and, of course, birthday cakes, often decorated with candles. These traditions vary widely across cultures and families.
6. Cultural Variations: Different cultures have unique birthday traditions. For example, in some Asian countries, a child’s first birthday is a significant event, involving a large gathering and rituals to bless the child. In Hispanic cultures, quinceañera, the celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday, marks her passage into womanhood.

The modern celebration of birthdays, especially in Western cultures, often emphasizes the individual and celebrates their life and achievements over the past year. The traditions surrounding birthdays, from gifts to parties, continue to evolve, but the core idea of marking the anniversary of one’s birth remains a significant milestone in many people’s lives.

Born 1988– Jan 31st. Gonna turn 36

Height — 6 foot tall even.

Body fat percentage … maybe 5%? I can see my 6 pack.

Mostly muscular — I think I may weigh around 170 pounds? Maybe +5 or -3 pounds? Either 165 pounds, 168 pounds… maybe 175 pounds?

46 years old … in 4 years he is 5 years old! Also height only 5 feet 8–

Wow Tim is old now!!

As of my last update in April 2023, Tim Ferriss, born on July 20, 1977, would be 46 years old. His height is not officially documented, but he is often listed as being around 5 feet 8 inches tall. Keep in mind that this information might not be entirely accurate and could change over time.

How old he was when wrote 4 hour work week

“The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss was published in April 2007. Since Ferriss was born on July 20, 1977, he would have been 29 years old when the book was published.

No —

Man ain’t the opposite of woman, and vice versa.

In fact, the notion of the “feminine” as a modern day construction? Perhaps from the French or the romantics?

The Iliad and the ancient Greeks… the notion of “feminine” is never even mentioned?

Morale of the story:

We men … we must only focus and should only focus on male matters. Ignore the female, “feminine”—

Super awesome.

8850 is the men’s restroom code

Go to the top floor at Margot, very good food and great view!

The Kensington’s brand, it looks all organic and shit, but they add cane sugar to it!!!

Heuristic: if it looks “healthy “, then it ain’t.

I like bitcoin precisely *because* it is so divisive and ‘bad’ for the planet?

Funny herusitc:

If people say it is ‘bad’ for the planet,,, then it might be a good investment?

Suggestions for Safari:

1. “Insanely fast”
2. Focus on “FOCUS”:– Chrome is insanely bad because it is so distracting!

In praise of Safari:

1. More beautiful

Simple thoughts:

1. First, don’t use Chrome. Chrome is for losers. Real men use Safari! Honestly at this point we should consider Google Chrome like Bonzi Buddy; adware.
2. When you start the day, re-start the day, just close all your damn tabs.
3. Carte blanche thinking and mentality!

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Productivity

Productivity by KIM 

1. Minimum Viable Nap (MVN)
2. OPTIMAL SIMPLICITY.
3. Never Do Anything Which Feels Like “Work“
4. THE MORE DEVICES YOU GOT, THE LESS PRODUCTIVE YOU ARE.
5. How to Become a More Efficient Photographer
6. Productivity Isn’t a Duty
7. Power-Expression, Not ‘Productivity’
8. Least Activation Energy
9. Efficient.
10. Adrenaline Seeking Towards What Ends?
11. Don’t Force Yourself to Write
12. CAREPOWER.
13. EXTREME ACTIVITY, EXTREME RECOVERY.
14. INFINITE CREATIVE PRODUCTIVITY.
15. Forcing Yourself *NOT* To Be Productive Takes More Skill than Forcing Yourself *TO* Be Productive
16. HOW TO ENCOURAGE FLOW
17. HOW I GET INTO THE ZONE
18. Via Negativa Productivity
19. My Personal Quest for the Simplest and Most Optimal Work Flow
20. In Praise of Productivity
21. Via Negativa Productivity
22. APEX PRODUCTIVITY
23. How I’m So Insanely Productive
24. Why I’m So Productive
25. Productivity Hack: Buy Treinta (30 Ounce) Cold Brew (No Water, No Ice) at Starbucks and ask for a Big Cup of (Free) Water
26. How to Be More Productive
27. Adblock for the Mind
28. The Best Phone is No Phone
29. As Late as Possible (ALAP)
30. Physiology and Artistic Productivity Tips: Intermittent Fasting, Meat, Powerlifting, Coffee
31. Productivity for Personal Freedom
32. The Origin of Productivity
33. The Physical Strength Required for Creative Productivity
34. Via Negativa Productivity
35. Why Do We Desire Perpetual Productivity?
36. Productivity is Physiological Strength
37. Perpetual Productivity
38. True Productivity
39. True Productivity is Powerful Work
40. How to Become Insanely Productive.
41. Meaningful Productivity
42. How to Become a More Productive Photographer
43. 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
44. How to Be More Creatively Productive
45. Offline Productivity
46. The Productive Photographer is the Happiest Photographer!
47. My Top 7 Photography Productivity Hacks

GLADIATOR RUSSEL CROWE VIBES HAHA

MONEY:

1. DELLA MONETA GALIANI PDF
2. DELLA MONETA V2

Letters from a Stoic Seneca:

1. EPISTLES SENECA
2. Seneca Letters

Just played with it in person at the Apple Santa Monica store;; really love the keyboard on it!

Thinking;; what would and what *should* consumerism of the future look like?

Consume:

With + take, consume.

hem:

To take, to distribute.

Essentially to get more people to do Apple Pay you gotta make it look sexy and cool.

To me, money was always a means to an end. A mean to purchasing your own personal freedom

Foxconn in Mainland China —

Not ‘socialism’ or even ‘liberalism’ or the left– but the Chinese communist party mainland china; CCP.

Or the PRC; people republic of china.

SECRETS TO HAPPINESS

Good ideas

if we’re focused on diversity questions—Are we supposed to be overly sensitive to various people of East Asian descent? Are we being too sensitive or not sensitive enough?—they divert our attention from the far more important communism question, which belongs front and center. So in conclusion—and this is a simplification, perhaps a distortion, but I think you know what I mean—it would be healthier that, whenever someone mentions dei, you just think ccp.

we should ask how communist China might benefit from an AI engine that deranges and polarizes our society. 

Atheist communism?

We used to self describe ourselves as ‘politically correct’:

By the 1980s, political correctness was something conservatives used as an epithet to describe deranged dittoheads on the left. If you go back to the 1970s, it was actually used by very progressive people as a term of self-congratulation. But if you go back to the 1950s, and strip away all the connotations that accrued over time—if you were a “politically correct” person in 1950, it meant that you followed directions from Moscow as a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. The totalitarian impulse, with its extraordinary demands on the individual conscience, is baked into the very notion of political correctness. We should think about that. Striving for diversity, especially diversity of thought, can be good. But anyone who prizes liberty—conservatives, libertarians, classical liberals, and the rest—must never lose sight of the cosmic battle against atheist communism.

The progressive, theologically liberal types, backed by institutional support and intent on dispensing their vision of social justice, have come to resemble the nasty money-changers in the temple.

It’s a very Nietzschean argument, as I said, but there’s also a very Nietzschean counterargument, perhaps more biographical than philosophical. At the end of his life, when Nietzsche was going insane, he said something along the lines of, “God of the Jews, you have won.” By this remark he meant that the modern West would be a world ruled by the victim.

they are so closely related that we might call wokeness a particularly Christian temptation.

Beyond science and economics lies the question of wokeness as a religion. On one level it is a distraction from religion: God is the biggest thing there is, it might be observed, and thinking about diversity makes us forget about God. This is true as far as it goes, but on a deeper level the multicultural agenda is very entangled with the Judeo-Christian tradition. That tradition is strongly identified with the side of the victim; much of the Bible presents moral reversals in this vein, in a sort of antimythological move. The Cain and Abel story, in which the murderous Cain is duly punished for the sin against his brother, is the flipside of the story of Romulus and Remus, in which the slayer Romulus is celebrated from the point of view of the city he goes on to establish. The Jews are the marginalized people in the desert. Christ, of course, is the ultimate victim.

the dorms and residences are the profit center driving an elaborate real-estate racket. 

In the university context, such an inquiry might explore why student debt has gone up from $300 billion in 2000 to $2 trillion today. The cop-out answer is that the $2 trillion of student debt went to pay for $2 trillion worth of lies about how great education is. In my view this reading is too generous. How much of that $2 trillion actually went to education as opposed to room and board? If you analyze the universities in economic terms, you might even conclude that the dorms and residences are the profit center driving an elaborate real-estate racket. And this is not to mention the web of offices and administrators tasked with overseeing not education but “student life.” Scale this model up, and you begin to understand why it’s so hard to exist outside of a big city in the United States—a vast country with swaths of empty space and lots of affordable housing—and why those deplorables who leave the reservation are viewed with such disdain.

cui bono?

My second candidate theory—and this is where I have some sympathies with Marxist and Randian types—amounts to an economically reductionist line of questioning. It’s the classic cui bono: Who’s actually benefiting from this stuff? How does it all play out? An old-school Marxist critique of what we call “cultural Marxism” would say that all these identity politics, the whole diversity agenda, has only served to divide the working class. People are supposed to focus on their real economic interests, and they’ve been diverted into all these other questions. So from a classically Marxist point of view, dei initiatives are a fundamentally reactionary form of politics. A historian might point out that, since the diversity agenda took off in the 1970s, it has coincided with a massive increase in inequality in this country. Correlation, of course, doesn’t prove causation. But were they somehow linked?

dmv–

This question of scientific and technological stagnation is in some sense the Achilles heel of the universities. It’s hard to uncover. Right now the humanities are transparently ridiculous. You might think of the humanities as the Department of Motor Vehicles. And the physics department is sort of like the self-proclaimed rocket scientists at the National Security Agency. The crypsis makes their activities look more intelligent and more advanced. But my belief is that the dmv is probably better run than the nsa. The fact that you don’t have a clue what’s going on at the nsa gives you a hint as to which of the two is worse. Something like this is going on with the sciences more broadly.

The diversity myth;

A few years after The Diversity Myth came out, a Stanford physics professor, Bob Laughlin, got a Nobel Prize. And he began to suffer from the supreme delusion that, now that he had a Nobel Prize in physics, he also had academic freedom and could investigate anything he wanted. Now, there are a lot of controversial topics in science. You could have a heterodox view on stem-cell research, or you could be a skeptic of climate change or Darwinism. But Laughlin hit on a topic that was far more taboo than any of the above. He had the idea that most of the scientists were doing no work at all. They were actually stealing money from the government, just creating all these fraudulent grant applications. Laughlin had done a lot of work studying the physics of super-high temperatures (superconductivity and the like), and he once told me that, of the roughly fifty thousand papers written on the subject, maybe twenty-five of them were any good at all.

Laughlin’s team started with the biology department at Stanford, launching a sort of inquiry into what, exactly, it was doing. They didn’t actually publish the results—they just had a public hearing and generally denounced all the professors as having stolen money from the government. The generous conclusion would be that the department wasn’t fully fraudulent: just an incredibly incrementalist exercise in groupthink that wasn’t really moving the dial forward. This was a line of thinking that was completely, completely taboo. I don’t need to tell you how the story ends.

He discussed the fervor of advocates for “wokeness” as religious. “If you think of ​​wokeness as a form of Puritanism run amok or something like that, where the self-proclaimed saints are using it as a stick to beat everyone else,” he said.

Talk

Thiel argued there’s a culture of suppression that undermines truth. “I always have this shortcut: where if there are things that are taboo, things you’re not even allowed to say, my shortcut is it’s probably just true,” he said.

Thiel closed his remarks with a discussion of the term political correctness, which he said had already been adopted by conservatives in the 1990s as an epithet, used by liberals to describe themselves in the 1970s and it “just meant you were a communist.”

He ended with the line “This is you know, a simplification of sorts, I think it would not be altogether unhealthy that if every time you hear the word DEI, you just think CCP.” 

BITCOIN & THE MOON!

Still not too late to jump on the Bitcoin band-wagon!

I still think a lot when I saw Bitcoin at only $300 USD a Bitcoin,,, then getting (first) into it at around $6,000 USD a Bitcoin (which seemed like a lot at the point).

Now at around $60,000 a Bitcoin,,, I wonder when it hits $600,000 USD a Bitcoin, a lot of people are going to be punching themselves in the butt for not getting in when it was ‘so cheap’?

CRYPTO BY KIM

Brave new world for photographers and crypto:

1. BITCOIN THOUGHTS
2. Bitcoin is Sexy
3. Fuck the Banks!
4. Ethereum?
5. Why Chainlink?
6. BIG AMOUNTS, SMALL AMOUNTS?
7. CRYPTO, CRYPTOCURRENCY THOUGHTS.
8. The Philosophy of Crypto
9. BITCOIN SHALL BE THE LAST CRYPTO STANDING.
10. Bitcoin Price Prediction
11. Trust chainlink for the most accurate prices for bitcoin or any other crypto
12. BITCOIN
13. There is No Web 3.0
14. 2 cents to 2 dollars?
15. Crypto.com?
16. Speculation vs Investing
17. Building with Bitcoin
18. DYNAMICS VS STATICS.
19. How Do You Know if the Timing Is Right?
20. BITCOIN IN THE NEWS
21. BITCOIN & UNCERTAINTY
22. Fake Money
23. Why I Bought More Bitcoin (Again)
24. How I Made Money with Crypto
25. Better to buy Dogecoin then buy a Tesla
26. NO LIMITS.
27. ALL DIGITAL FUTURE.
28. Digital over Physical Possessions
29. DIGIBYTE.
30. CHAINLINK.
31. The Excitement of Starting from Zero
32. HAPTIC INDUSTRIES NOW ACCEPTING CRYPTO AND BITCOIN
33. In Praise of Crypto
34. JUST BUY IT.
35. Why I’m So Bullish on Bitcoin
36. Bitcoin as the Simplest Cryptocurrency
37. Why I bought (more) bitcoin
38. Once You Become a Crypto Billionaire, Then What?
39. Why Crypto is Under-Hyped
40. The Joy of Speculation
41. BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
42. Why I Bought Bitcoin
43. Crypto Photography
44. Crypto Thoughts
45. On Making Money from Nothing
46. BITCOIN THOUGHTS
47. Bitcoin is Sexy
48. Fuck the Banks!
49. Ethereum?
50. Why Chainlink?
51. BIG AMOUNTS, SMALL AMOUNTS?
52. CRYPTO, CRYPTOCURRENCY THOUGHTS.
53. The Philosophy of Crypto
54. BITCOIN SHALL BE THE LAST CRYPTO STANDING.
55. Bitcoin Price Prediction
56. Trust chainlink for the most accurate prices for bitcoin or any other crypto
57. BITCOIN
58. There is No Web 3.0
59. 2 cents to 2 dollars?
60. Crypto.com?
61. Speculation vs Investing
62. Building with Bitcoin
63. DYNAMICS VS STATICS.
64. How Do You Know if the Timing Is Right?
65. BITCOIN IN THE NEWS
66. BITCOIN & UNCERTAINTY
67. Fake Money
68. Why I Bought More Bitcoin (Again)
69. How I Made Money with Crypto
70. Better to buy Dogecoin then buy a Tesla
71. NO LIMITS.
72. ALL DIGITAL FUTURE.
73. Digital over Physical Possessions
74. DIGIBYTE.
75. CHAINLINK.
76. The Excitement of Starting from Zero
77. HAPTIC INDUSTRIES NOW ACCEPTING CRYPTO AND BITCOIN
78. In Praise of Crypto
79. JUST BUY IT.
80. Why I’m So Bullish on Bitcoin
81. Bitcoin as the Simplest Cryptocurrency
82. Why I bought (more) bitcoin
83. Once You Become a Crypto Billionaire, Then What?
84. Why Crypto is Under-Hyped
85. The Joy of Speculation
86. BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
87. Why I Bought Bitcoin
88. Crypto Photography
89. Crypto Thoughts
90. On Making Money from Nothing

When a founder and a visionary starts wearing a suit?

why

The “why” behind the Ronin Bridge hack can be analyzed from two main perspectives: the motivation of the hackers and the underlying vulnerabilities that made the Ronin Network an attractive target.

1. Motivation of the Hackers

• Financial Gain: The primary motivation appears to be financial. The Ronin Bridge handled significant volumes of cryptocurrency, making it a lucrative target. By stealing $625 million in Ether and USDC, the hackers aimed for a massive monetary payoff.
• Exploiting Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Systems: DeFi systems, due to their relatively new and sometimes experimental nature, can present security gaps that are not as prevalent in traditional financial systems. Hackers often target these platforms to exploit such vulnerabilities.
• Anonymity and Laundering Potential: The blockchain and cryptocurrencies offer a level of anonymity. Hackers might perceive this as an opportunity to launder large amounts of money with lower risk of being traced compared to traditional banking systems.

2. Underlying Vulnerabilities

• Centralization of Validator Nodes: Although blockchain is touted for its decentralization, the Ronin Network’s reliance on a small number of validator nodes created a central point of vulnerability. Compromising just five out of nine nodes allowed the hackers to take control.
• Security Lapses: The network may have had inadequate security measures for protecting the validator nodes. This could include weak access controls, insufficient monitoring systems, and a lack of robust authentication mechanisms.
• Social Engineering Tactics: The success of the spear-phishing attack suggests a potential underestimation of social engineering risks. Employees or individuals with access to critical systems could have been better trained or equipped to recognize and resist such tactics.
• Rapid Growth and Scaling Challenges: Axie Infinity and the Ronin Network experienced rapid growth. Sometimes, rapid scaling can lead to oversight of stringent security practices, as the focus might shift towards growth and performance enhancements.

Broader Implications

• Highlighting Security in DeFi: This incident served as a wake-up call for the DeFi sector about the importance of security. It emphasizes that while innovation is crucial, it should not be at the expense of robust security protocols.
• Regulatory Attention: The size and impact of the hack drew attention from regulators, indicating a need for better oversight and perhaps standardized security protocols in the DeFi and blockchain space.

In summary, the Ronin Bridge hack was likely motivated by financial gain, taking advantage of the unique opportunities and vulnerabilities present in the DeFi sector. It exposed significant security flaws and highlighted the need for more stringent security measures and possibly regulatory oversight in the rapidly evolving landscape of blockchain and cryptocurrency.

The Ronin Bridge hack, which resulted in the theft of approximately $625 million, was executed through a sophisticated exploitation of the network’s security vulnerabilities. Here’s a breakdown of how the hackers carried out this significant cyber heist:

1. Exploitation of Validator Nodes

• Validator Nodes: In blockchain networks like Ronin, validator nodes are responsible for verifying and authorizing transactions. Ronin’s design required the approval of at least five out of nine validator nodes for a transaction to be valid.
• Targeted Attack: The hackers targeted these validator nodes. They managed to compromise private keys controlling five out of the nine validators.

2. Method of Compromise

• Social Engineering and Spear Phishing: The attack was likely initiated through a spear-phishing campaign targeting specific employees associated with the network. This indicates that the hackers had done extensive preparation and research to identify their targets.
• Use of Backdoor: Once they had access to the network through compromised credentials, the hackers were able to implant a backdoor, giving them control over the validator nodes.

3. Execution of Unauthorized Transactions

• Bypassing Security: With control over the majority of the validator nodes, the hackers could authorize fraudulent transactions without being detected.
• Transfer of Funds: They executed multiple transactions, transferring huge sums of Ether and USDC (a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar) from the Ronin Bridge to external accounts controlled by them.

4. Delayed Detection

• Lack of Immediate Awareness: The attack initially went unnoticed due to the stealthy nature of the compromise. It was only discovered almost a week later when a user reported an issue with a withdrawal.

5. Post-Hack Response

• Freezing of Assets: After discovering the hack, the Ronin Network froze the bridge to prevent further unauthorized transactions.
• Investigations and Security Measures: Law enforcement and cybersecurity experts were involved in investigating the breach. The Ronin Network and Axie Infinity developers initiated measures to bolster security and prevent similar attacks in the future.

Lessons and Implications

• Security Vulnerabilities: This incident highlighted the vulnerabilities in decentralized finance platforms, particularly around the reliance on a small number of validator nodes.
• Need for Enhanced Security: It underscored the importance of robust security practices, including regular security audits, employee awareness training against phishing, and more secure management of private keys and access controls.
• Regulatory Scrutiny: The hack also brought regulatory attention to the DeFi space, with calls for better oversight and standards to protect users’ funds.

The Ronin Bridge hack serves as a cautionary tale in the cryptocurrency and DeFi sectors, emphasizing the need for heightened security measures and vigilance against sophisticated cyber threats.

• Losses: Approximately $625 million in cryptocurrency (Ether and USDC) was stolen, making it one of the largest thefts in the history of decentralized finance (DeFi).

The Ronin Bridge hack was a significant cybersecurity incident in the cryptocurrency sector, involving the Ronin Network, an Ethereum sidechain developed for the popular blockchain game Axie Infinity. Here’s a detailed overview:

Background

• Ronin Network: Designed to support Axie Infinity, a game where players earn cryptocurrency through gameplay. Ronin was developed to facilitate faster and cheaper transactions than the main Ethereum network.
• Bridge in Blockchain: A bridge in blockchain technology connects two different blockchains, allowing the transfer of assets between them. In this case, Ronin Bridge connected the Ronin sidechain with Ethereum’s main blockchain.

The Hack

• Date of Incident: The hack occurred in late March 2022.
• Method of Attack: Hackers exploited security vulnerabilities in the Ronin Network. They gained control over a number of validator nodes, which are critical for verifying and authorizing transactions on the network.
• Losses: Approximately $625 million in cryptocurrency (Ether and USDC) was stolen, making it one of the largest thefts in the history of decentralized finance (DeFi).

Consequences and Response

• Immediate Impact: The Ronin Network temporarily froze all transactions to prevent further losses.
• Investigation: Law enforcement agencies were involved, and an investigation was initiated to trace the hackers and recover the stolen funds.
• Security Measures: The Ronin Network and Axie Infinity developers worked on enhancing security measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Significance

• Impact on DeFi Sector: This incident highlighted significant security vulnerabilities in DeFi platforms and the need for improved security protocols.
• Regulatory Attention: It attracted attention from regulatory bodies, emphasizing the need for stricter oversight in the cryptocurrency and DeFi sectors.

Current Status

• Recovery Efforts: There have been ongoing efforts to recover the stolen funds and improve the security infrastructure of Ronin and similar networks.
• Updates and Changes: The Ronin Network likely implemented changes in response to this incident, but for the most up-to-date information, a recent search would be necessary.

This hack serves as a stark reminder of the risks associated with decentralized finance and the importance of robust security systems in the blockchain and cryptocurrency domains.

chainlink blog;

We love the outdoors!

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Anti indoor living:

Just make this up:

Average American wakes up, maybe 6-7am?

Eat breakfast, coffee, drive to work?

At work from 7am-8:30am.

Work all day,,, maybe quick lunch break go outside for 15-20 minute, maybe if lucky 1 hour?

Back into work

Work until 6:30, 7:30pm

Jump into car, drive back home

Home at 8pm ish— dinner, clean, shower, maybe Netflix and or TV, sleep.

This at least 5 days a week??

Even gym going is indoors

Even let us consider, going to the gym is now a modern day indoor activity? Where are all the open air gymnasiums of Ancient Greece and Sparta?

I seek to do the opposite

I seek to spend 90% of my waking hours outdoors, and only 10% indoors?