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View More NewsTwo of Bitcoin’s most influential figures came out against it on Saturday. Strategy founder Michael Saylor posted that “there are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam,” arguing the proposal “turns a spam dispute into a consensus change that would invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions.” The precedent, he wrote, is the real danger.There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam.BIP 110 turns a spam dispute into a consensus change that would invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions.That precedent is the danger. We should save our energy for threats that really matter. $BTC https://t.co/LoSkl9XSo1— Michael Saylor (@saylor)…
Hedera-based lending protocol Bonzo Lend lost about $9 million after an attacker manipulated the price of SAUCE used as collateral, allowing the account to borrow assets far beyond the value deposited.In a preliminary incident report published Saturday, Bonzo said the attacker deposited 250 SAUCE, worth only a few dollars, before submitting a price update that inflated the token’s value by roughly 12 orders of magnitude. The wallet then borrowed 6.63 million USDC and 34.5 million wrapped HBAR from the lending pool.The case illustrates how oracle failures can turn low-value collateral into a tool for draining large amounts of liquidity from…
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A review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven; 384 pages; Verso (May 2026)Although the True Crime genre of publishing and documentary television is replete with accounts of murderous spouses, serial killers, Mafia wars, and financial scams, rarely do the subjects transcend the headline immediacy of police procedurals to deliver the long-term import of critical analysis. The Victorian predator Jack the Ripper and the Depression-era exploits of Bonnie and Clyde are two such exceptions; a third is the countercultural carnage wrought by the Manson family. As such, Claudia Verhoeven’s new book Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History…
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