Colin Charles (bytebot)

It’s no longer if you’ll get scammed. It’s when. I’m building Mitsukeru, an always-on AI butler that protects against scams, bad contracts, and social engineering. 💸 $1.03T lost to scams in 2024. ⚡ AI is accelerating infiltration. 🛡️ We need proactive defences, not reactive training. Why here? Because this is grassroots Farcaster Capital Markets, an experiment for the 37 of us here. Raise: $350K Min ticket: $1K Beta ships in 90 days (macOS first) $20/month SaaS model - monetised from day one Your membership = - Utility token allocation at TGE - NFT access pass + perks - Governance + credits Open-source, privacy-first, auditable. Think antivirus, but for scams. Participation is simple. Check the slides, and information in the public pitch. Feel free to DM me here or reply to this thread! Slide deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ql2dFSpnllL9xAUNuN76xeuuuZ4nOKaW/view?usp=sharing Public pitch: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kW5K56kbUczBYilTR2naqqcueH-rF2Hr0isUdngFFtA/edit?usp=sharing Initial technical roadmap details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/178UDWGGReRyawXeYkOt56BMwmRcooX4Ti09G7pXUaAM/edit?usp=sharing

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More are coming. Wasabi. Today has been a tiring day. There’s actually an opportunity to get ahead of this. Is there gumption for it? https://x.com/peckshieldalert/status/2049787810237067382?s=46&t=iLSaYO2O7t6yPdmEXeqMdA https://x.com/blockaid_/status/2049768426181104095?s=46&t=iLSaYO2O7t6yPdmEXeqMdA

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Wake up to CopyFail. Bug in Linux cryptographic codebase. Present since 2017. AI assisted find. Patch your Linux boxes. Now. https://copy.fail/

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It’s no longer if you’ll get scammed. It’s when. I’m building Mitsukeru, an always-on AI butler that protects against scams, bad contracts, and social engineering. 💸 $1.03T lost to scams in 2024. ⚡ AI is accelerating infiltration. 🛡️ We need proactive defences, not reactive training. Why here? Because this is grassroots Farcaster Capital Markets, an experiment for the 37 of us here. Raise: $350K Min ticket: $1K Beta ships in 90 days (macOS first) $20/month SaaS model - monetised from day one Your membership = - Utility token allocation at TGE - NFT access pass + perks - Governance + credits Open-source, privacy-first, auditable. Think antivirus, but for scams. Participation is simple. Check the slides, and information in the public pitch. Feel free to DM me here or reply to this thread! Slide deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ql2dFSpnllL9xAUNuN76xeuuuZ4nOKaW/view?usp=sharing Public pitch: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kW5K56kbUczBYilTR2naqqcueH-rF2Hr0isUdngFFtA/edit?usp=sharing Initial technical roadmap details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/178UDWGGReRyawXeYkOt56BMwmRcooX4Ti09G7pXUaAM/edit?usp=sharing

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Gonna cast something that is probably an unpopular opinion, and might get me unfollowed, but it has to be said. Today I unfollowed someone who's on this network, who lives in Southern Malaysia, on an island near Singapore (I mean just say you live in Malaysia, ffs). 2.5 months away from this app, I don't care what your name is, you're active on X, there's no reason to say you think the network has potential when you yourself do not participate in it. Then I hobbled onto X to checkout people who birthed this very network. Realise there are a lot of very mid takes. I don't think being ex-anything makes you like the PayPal mafia in the end. Not that it really is a mafia, to begin with. Sometimes you just get lucky, right place, right time, right bet, but that doesn't make you great, it just makes you lucky. Winston Churchill once said, "If the present tries to sit in judgement on the past, it will lose the future." Your past does not define your future. Financial products always disclaim, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Remember that.

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Defi United seems like a fun operation. I mean, if I’m a state actor or just a criminal, I’m now encouraged to steal money, and we know that there will be a bailout. Satoshi and the Bitcoin paper would not agree to bailouts but here we are at a hyper-financialised state in cryptocurrency. This should really incentivize more criminal activity.

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Farcaster/Base news is quite a lot to digest. In the end, everyone gave up on gathering/rewarding creators. Ironic, but X/YouTube/TikTok still do. That could be problematic for decentralised social if people look at X because of reward potential. Miniapps still look like they have legs. Great. But miniapps need users, and if the users evaporated, that's a problem. Coinbase did TBA launch officially in mid-December. Its barely 2 months to say let's go back to trades, and remove social. Then why XMTP messaging? After all the mess for the last 2 quarters, its going to be fun to rebuild social + Farcaster (because it would seem like social is where it's at - trading is now defocused from what I can tell). Also, Merkle - excellent to have lived off interest payments. And most of the team at Tempo. So right before the acquihire (is it that, because similar investor), the shell of the company's output got moved to Neynar. All in, I do not know where we will be next month, or next year, but this is interesting to see where people will spend their energies. Will Pro still be a thing come end of May 2026? What else can we build on such a network, e.g. better reputation systems? Remember, cross-posting with no or minimal engagement is rarely the solution. Fun times, here for the ride, never leaving!

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