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Rules and Referees

Dev brought the tax notice in a manila envelope. He set it on the bench between us, with the careful gravity of a man delivering bad news, and then sat down beside it without opening it. The envelope had been opened already, and re-folded along the same crease, and re-tucked, in the way of documents that had been read and put away and read again. "From the tax office," he said. "Three weeks ago. They want to talk about my crypto trading from last year." "Are you in trouble?" "I don't know yet...

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Security for the Rest of Us

The wisteria was gone. In the two weeks before this meetup, the long pale clusters had dropped, browned, and been swept up by the park's groundskeepers, and the wall where they had hung was now bare green. The hydrangeas were beginning to come in, fat blue buds tightening at the tips of the bushes. The temperature had climbed by ten degrees in a week. Tokyo had the soft, slightly damp warmth of early summer, and Dev - for the first time in months - had taken his coat off entirely and was wear...

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The Re-entrancy Weekend (Curve, 2023) - A Bug in the Translator

The wisteria was out. Along the long wall that runs beside the path on the east side of the park, the wisteria had begun, that week, to drop its long pale-purple racemes from its trellis - the second-favorite bloom in the Tokyo year, after the cherries, and the one that nobody crowds to see in the same way. The petals smelled faintly sweet, faintly like soap. The bees were back. The bench, when we arrived, was warm. Moolah was in a more settled mood. She had a latte. She seemed, after the hea...

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FTX (2022) - The Exchange Wasn't DeFi After All

It rained the day Moolah told us about FTX. Not heavily. Not the kind of spring downpour that drives everyone indoors. A slow, fine, almost uncommitted rain that fell at an angle and made the streets darker than usual without quite making them wet. The kind of rain that you walk through without bothering to open an umbrella, because you know it will stop in twenty minutes anyway. The kind of rain that, in Tokyo, falls in late April when the cherry season is over and the wisteria is just begin...

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Ronin (2022) - When the Guards Were Too Few

We walked. Moolah had picked a route - north out of Ueno, up through Yanaka, around the cemetery, down through the small streets that smell of incense and old wood - and we walked it at her pace, which was slower than I had expected. She had told us to wear walking shoes, and Dev had taken her literally, and so he was wearing what looked like a pair of brand-new running sneakers that he kept glancing down at with embarrassed pride. The petals from last week were mostly gone now. Only a few st...

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Terra / Luna (2022) - The Stablecoin That Wasn't

It was the height of the cherry blossoms. By the time we met for what Moolah had warned would be the slow story, the trees in the park were at their fullest - that brief week of complete saturation when the branches look almost solid white from a distance, and the petals begin to drift in small constant flurries even on still afternoons. The hanami crowd had reached its peak. Tarps everywhere. Children running. Old couples sitting on benches and saying very little to each other. The kind of w...

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Black Thursday (2020) - The Day MakerDAO Almost Died

The cherry trees were starting. It had happened over the course of three or four days - a few isolated branches in the south end of the park, then more, then almost overnight a thousand small white explosions all at once, and now in the first week of April we walked under them on the way to the bench. People were everywhere. Tarps spread under the trees. Bento boxes. Beer cans. The annual brief delirium of hanami already in motion, a full week earlier than the long-term average. The bench was...

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The DAO Hack (2016) - The Original Sin

We met at dusk. Moolah had asked for it specifically - come at the hour the light goes amber, not before, not after - and so we arrived at the bench at five forty-five on a Sunday in late March, when the plum blossoms had already begun their slow, slightly sad transition from full bloom to drift. The pond was dark and still. The first cherry buds were out, tight little fists at the ends of the branches. The children who usually played in the park were being herded home by their parents. A sin...

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Introducing slisXAUE Launch Rewards: Earn Extra Yield for Backing Gold, Early

Hey Lista Fam! with the launch of the XAUE Gold Season 1, we’re kicking off a 60-day rewards campaign for the community members who back it early and hold it steady! A Quick Recap on What Exactly is slisXAUE: slisXAUE is a yield-bearing gold token issued by Lista DAO in partnership with XAUE Protocol. Deposit XAUt, and Lista handles the rest: subscribing to XAUE on your behalf and wrapping it as slisXAUE, to help you earn passive, gold-backed yield without lifting a finger as slisXAUE carries...

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