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2026-09-07

I respect Andean Medjedovic for the balls and ability to act solo with no social support

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personal
target audience - strictly myself
If anyone is reading this, no I am not a fan of hacking lots of random users and stealing their funds, morally speaking. I would much rather force the DAO to pay up, not the users, in such a situation. If I was literally in Medjedovic's shoes, I would probably just taken the 10% offer that Kyberswap offered. Offence is winning and defence is losing, when it comes to keeping secrets, especially lifelong secrets. Not sure though, haven't done my research to offer a strong opinion though. (I would do a lot of research on previous case studies if I was literally in this situation, and use the case studies to decide what to do.)

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Medjedovic's negotiation message is not that well thought out but it takes balls to write that.
Also takes balls (and skills) to get a fake passport (presumably from dark web?) and travel.
Also massive balls (and skills) to get arrested and then escape.
And this guy is way younger than me, to top it all off.
Reading about people like this reminds me that I could also become one of these people.
To be clear, I think Medjedovic is playing the whole game suboptimally, but I can respect it regardless.
I have been studying a bunch of exploits based on floating points (I think this is OK to write publicly but unsure, we are getting into dual use territory here), so I studied the Kyberswap exploit too. It is not that unimaginable that future Samuel uncovers a similar exploit.

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