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Towards a Positive Peer to Peer Reputation-based Economy: Quantified Prestige

Quantified Prestige is a concept for a positive peer to peer reputation-based economy. Its motto is "Positive reputation done right". The system is highly experimental, but theoretically sound - or is it not?

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What are Field Notes? The White Space Between Articles

We all know about footnotes. Field notes are similiar in that they enhance the authors conceptual framework about the articles that get written - conside field notes as the hidden message that are peaking between the words themselves. Read more about field notes..

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Der Laborursprung von SARS-CoV-2 wird immer noch von einer grossen Interessengemeinschaft gezielt vertuscht

Die Laborhypothese von SARS-CoV-2 kann heute kaum noch ernsthaft widerlegt werden. 3 Nobelpreisträger, darunter Luc Montagnier, haben die Zusammenhänge früh erkannt, wurden aber in einer präzendenzlosen Kampagne diffamiert und mundtot gemacht.

Почему Россия - лучшая ферма гавваха

Какие причины послужили кратным увеличением норм выработки гавваха для жителей России, относительно других стран и народов?

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How to Configure AI Providers in Shakespeare

Shakespeare's flexible AI provider system gives you maximum flexibility to choose from dozens of AI providers. With support for 40+ models across cloud providers, local installations, and custom APIs, you're never locked into a single vendor.

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The Economy of Access

DeFi / Crypto - Imagine a world with smart locks on property, biometric gates on money, algorithms that execute without appeal. Early experiments already left people locked out, stranded and starving. Now it could be tokenized at scale. Forster, Orwell, Dick, Postman were they writing fiction or prophecy?

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USPD - Rekt

DeFi / Crypto - An attacker front-ran USPD's proxy deployment in September using a CPIMP attack, installed a hidden middleman, waited 78 days, then minted 98 million unbacked tokens for $1 million. Security researchers had documented and patched this exact attack vector months earlier.

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The Big Blind

DeFi / Crypto - After VC bets $1 billion on Kalshi. Paradigm drops research 6 days later, halving Polymarket's volume. Both platforms hire desks to trade against users. Wall Street backs both. The tech changed. Maybe the skim just learned to code. Welcome to the new Vegas.

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Aevo - Rekt

DeFi / Crypto - Dead code still bleeds. Aevo, formerly known as Ribbon Finance, took a $2.7 million hit on old vaults. A proxy admin vulnerability enabled a full oracle hijack, allowing the attacker to rig prices to infinity and drain the old contract in one atomic loop.

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Yearn - Rekt IV

DeFi / Crypto - Deja vu, as Yearn suffers its 2nd hack in 6 weeks and its 4th exploit overall. A recycled 2023 error drained $293k. The archives are fast becoming a shopping list - Yearn x2, Balancer, Abracadabra. Could we have DeFi relic hunters aiming for old code?

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Zakat on shares - Open Letter to the North American Fiqh Council, Shariyah Review Board and Sh. Joe Bradford

A new methodology to calculate zakat on long term shares has been growing in influence. It argues for a 70% discount on zakat obligations against long term shares. In the below letter, I question the precise illah by which minority corporate shareholding is treated as if it were a direct partnership in zakatable assets, despite the corporation’s separate legal personality and the shareholder’s lack of tasarruf over underlying assets.