blockbird

it serves the seller? 🤷‍♂️ they get the best price available. if you offer something closer to market value, the bot won’t see an arb opportunity and try to beat you 🤷‍♂️

Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen after spending just 12 days in the country. Then he bought 193 hectares on Lake Wānaka, in the mountains near Queenstown, and filed plans for a 330-meter compound built INTO the hillside. Grass roof. Room for 30 people. The council rejected it, the court rejected it again. Officially, nothing was built. But in 2016, Sam Altman told The New Yorker his pandemic backup plan: fly with Peter Thiel to Thiel's house in New Zealand. In the same interview he listed his stockpile: guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, gas masks. That part is documented. Rumor has it the real bunkers aren't on any map. The owners only get GPS coordinates. And Thiel isn't the only one. New Zealand has become the super-rich's favorite bolthole. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman said telling someone you're "buying a house in New Zealand" is "kind of a wink, wink, say no more." Look at what surrounds this place: 🏔 Mt Aspiring / Tititea – 3,033 m 🏔 Mt Earnslaw / Pikirakatahi – 2,819 m 🏔 The Remarkables (Single Cone) – 2,319 m 🏔 Ben Lomond – 1,748 m Solid rock overhead. Glacial lakes. Snowmelt water. One of the most isolated countries on Earth. If the Geophysical Event comes, with crustal displacement and oceans spilling over the continents, this is exactly where you'd want to be: deep inside a mountain, with your own clean water. They're not preparing for nothing.

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to Africa. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

Bored apes were $500000 at their peak. Now they are worth $13300 If you had sold 27 apes at the top, you could now buy back the entire collection at this price Crazy 🤯

How it feels to avoid all recent DeFi exploits, phishing scams and ledger leaks because you’re too lazy for self custody and keep everything on a centralised exchange

This will sound super crazy, but I see a path to SpaceX being worth orders of magnitude more than the current Earth economy

Artificial Intelligence

Just discovered art on Tezos. WOW.

Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.

justin drake wrote a long post today and he's telling us to move all our gay nfts into a bunker or something

you need to be smart enough to buy roughly the right bags at a good price but then retarded enough to let it go up a lot without selling

the average person has become incredibly mean.