cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

Manufacturer of home remedies for market inefficiencies in crypto. Sydney Joined January 2018

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

4 years ago

Was bored so I dug up the major Hacker News threads about Bitcoin from 10 and 11 years ago, when it hit $100 and $10. No surprise, the arguments/debates/discussions in those threads are the exact same ones you'll find in $BTC threads on HN today. Intrinsic value, crime, etc, smh

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

4 years ago

Wonder what percentage of $GAS fell into the hands of people like me, who used to run bots to arbitrage minting and selling $CHI and $GST2. Nice to have keepsakes beside all those screenshots of being on top of the "gas spenders" leaderboard. Not that I plan to "keep".

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

With @infura_io and gas prices down, I'm seeing a flurry of new pending transactions to mint $CHI. Do people not realise that at any given time (including now) you can just buy $CHI for the same price as it costs to mint it? All without needlessly clogging up the network, too.

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

If looking for smart contracts to exploit, the best opportunities probably lie in the arbitrage/market-making/liquidation/etc bots, most of which were likely hacked together in haste by a single dev without a semblance of an audit. The challenge is that they're not open-source.

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

There's a lack of documentation for how to do flash loans with @dydxprotocol out there, so I wrote the simplest possible (yet complete and extensively documented) single-file Solidity implementation for use as a starting point for anyone who wants it: gist.github.com/cryptoscopia/1…

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

If you haven't yet migrated your $LEND to $AAVE, right now you can get a 15% bonus on your holdings by selling your LEND and using the proceeds to buy AAVE, instead of using the migration contract. That number usually ranges between -1% and +3%, so this 15% offer won't last long

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Test transaction successful. Now to wait for a proper profit opportunity. Thanks @DegenSpartan for the alpha, hit me up if you ever need something like this built.

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Disappointed how @mooniswap claims to improve on @UniswapProtocol, yet chose not to replicate its handy swap() logic, which allows smart contracts to trade any ERC-20 tokens without needing to approve() them first. Not to mention the lack of flash-loaning.

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Wow, the current price of the $CHI gastoken makes it profitable to mint at over 100 gwei gas price. The minting bot army is currently paying as much as 120. etherscan.io/txsPending?a=0…

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Wild theory: current crypto market upswing is caused by @Garmin market-buying crypto to pay off its ransomware attackers.

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Damn, I wish this was real :D

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Wow. Sneaking in a vulnerability under the guise of an innocuous pull request, then exploiting it for profit. It's an attack vector every dev has thought about at some point, but seeing it successfully executed is mind-blowing. An amazing read. medium.com/@tronblack/rav…

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

So the @aaveaave web interface has been down for over 6 hours now, during which time $SNX went up by 20%. I wonder how many users were tech-savvy enough to invoke repay() on the smart contract manually to avoid liquidation. I'm guessing not many.

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Let's hope none of the people who borrowed $BAT on @aaveaave to lend it out on @compoundfinance went to sleep thinking they made a sound financial decision, without considering what happens when everyone else gets the same idea. The money lego pendulum is swinging in full force.

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Parsed 3 months of trades of a random crypto on a small exchange (with no washtrading). Graphed order size against the percentage of all orders that were below that size. Almost a perfectly straight line on a log scale. Not sure if this information is useful in any way.

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cryptoscopia @cryptoscopia

5 years ago

Incredibly thorough and insightful, yet concise, research effort by @adamscochran on $ETH distribution and movement patterns/data. One of the most worthwhile things I've read in a while. adamcochran.substack.com/p/32-findsing-…