William Allen

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It's been four months since our acquisition by Casa, and we’re thrilled to announce the latest milestone in our tech integration and market innovation: you can now use a YubiKey to self-custody your Bitcoin. Our work at Chamber with passkeys and applied cryptography combined with Casa’s unparalleled expertise in Bitcoin security and self-custody made this possible. More info here: https://blog.casa.io/secure-your-bitcoin-with-yubikey/

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Keep an eye out for an announcement from Casa in Nashville this Friday 👀

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The WazirX $230m hack was executed via upgrading their Safe multisig to a malicious contract, then draining the funds. Companies should seriously consider using a more restricted interface than Safe to protect against this. Casa's implementation of Safe is highly restricted for this reason. Most treasury operations are very simple. You need to send or receive money. You need to replace a signer or a lost key. That's it for normal operations. Most people don't have the knowledge to verify whether a random signature request is malicious. If they have the knowledge, they often don't have the time, especially if they are signing transactions frequently. Don't put your signers in a position where they have to be vigilant about malicious transactions. Just use a product that puts guardrails in place for you, so you don't have to worry about it - you just run your business. We're newer in the ETH community - what am I missing? How can Casa better serve businesses managing a crypto treasury in self custody?

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congrats, fantastic investors!

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no longer true, thanks to Meta.

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It wavered for a brief moment, but crypto is fully partisan in the US gov't. You can find a few exceptions who cross the aisle, just like you can with 2nd amendment supporters. But those are an endangered species.

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thanks - am curious about how you go from 'this is a valid passkey signature' here https://github.com/base-org/webauthn-sol to 'this signature controls the smart contract'. any pointers in the documentation would be appreciated!

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where does the coinbase smart wallet store the EOA private key? sorry for being dense but I've read it a few times and didn't see it.

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don't trust, verify

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enjoy!! will be there for dead & co in June.

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that's 9-19 more than me :) but adobe express is good (and getting better) and I imagine we'll see lots more photo innovation coming to Lightroom

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+1 to making money (ie, Behance for creatives)

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biased since the leaders of it are friends. but it is really incredible. and they are true believers in a) reducing annoying tasks while b) helping everyone be more creative.

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I had a front-row seat to Adobe's AI work in both product and research, so I felt pretty strongly that it would be quite hard for any startup to compete with the incumbents distribution, data, and budget for compute. I'm still not sure if I was right or wrong.

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a former colleague started https://www.taxgpt.com/

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