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The Operational Security Gap Behind 2026's Web3 Losses
Roughly ~200 hack and exploit incidents in the first half of 2026, and about $900M stolen in total. Operational and infrastructure compromises took…
Jun 12
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Burn Notice #4
A Laptop That Cleared Two Multisigs, Opus 4.8’s Four-Year Zcash Bug, and a One-Vote DAO Takeover
Jun 10
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The Expensive Failures Live Above the Code
Web3’s most expensive failures come from the opsec and infrastructure layer. The audits are still pointed at the contracts.
Jun 5
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Burn Notice #3
Gnosis Pay's Delay-Module Signature, StakeDAO's setPeer Mint, and a Bridge Down to Its Signing Key
Jun 3
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Burn Notice #2
A $76M Paper Mint, 86 Drained Safes, and a 43-Day Dwell Time
Jun 2
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May 2026
Burn Notice #1
Drift $285M, KelpDAO $292M: Bridge Exploits Explained
May 27
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March 2026
Reclaiming the Spark. On Burnout, Passion, and the Longer Road Back
I'm writing this from the middle of it, not from the other side. The spark that used to fire automatically now takes effort to find.
Mar 28
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Boredom Is a Skill. What Happens When You Actually Practise It.
Most of us haven't been genuinely bored in years. Not because life is full — because we've built a system for avoiding it. What you lose when every gap…
Mar 27
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