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https://www.hermetic.ch/crypto/kalliste/money1.htm here's another layer deeper
Theres two other audiobooks from Paul but those were created with AI by me, Production vs Plunder and The Breaking Dawn
This is a book I reread almost every year for inspiration. I also suggest digging into Paul's other writing which is equally great
Btw there is a short book and blog posts about what where the events that inspired the book, i have old archive links collected on my blog https://disobey.dev/posts/the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever/
Max hilerbrand did the audiobook version https://towardsliberty.com/audiobooks/lodging
Nvk's attitude has a lot to do with this vulnerability because its a governance fail.
His ego, attitude and cronies doing his bidding are the reason that security researchers and others stayed as far away as possible.
He is a ceo of a company providing most critical services to the user and as such has responsibilities that dont include bullying, alienating and terrorizing everyone else in this space. And using his buddies (who are absolutely to blame for tolerating this fuckery for so long) to influence events, prop him up, give him even more visibility and make the blast radius of this shitshow even bigger.
his behavior is not a shock, the shitshow he was doing for years is not news to people around him yet american bitcoin mafia carried him as the second coming of jesus.
This was a complete failure and exposes the reality of bitcoin ecosystem - it is as rotten as anything else if not worse.
Past examples of how well nvk handles reports and feedback on lack of security in his products https://thecharlatan.ch/COLDCARD-Supply-Chain/ for anyone wondering why ppl didnt catch this before - because he was always hostile towards anyone not praising him for his godlike superiority and intellect
I gave most of my decently sized collection to various friends when I moved out of the country tho i kept a few shelves that I couldnt part with 😅
Also I always have books in bathrooms, i love reading while shitting 🤣 current place i'm staying has two bathrooms and both have multiple printed books in them that are designated pooping reading material (+ kindle)
I have reread the Daemon series many times as well as other books by Suarez, he is brilliant, its my most recommended scifi reading
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