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The test was a price tag on the claim that AI makes PHP exploitation trivial. Within hours strangers had topped the wallet up to $2,000 and the prize was still unclaimed.
One commenter had an LLM-generated proof of concept that crashed the site. A crash is not a shell.
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Stephen Diehl's essay follows a composite kid, Mike, down a pipeline from a meme coin to leveraged options to a Kalshi account to a 2 a.m. sportsbook, poorer at every stop and sure he is investing. The line underneath: the price of Bitcoin measures only the price of Bitcoin.
The thread didn't fall in line. People who worked inside crypto analytics and Web3 confirmed the rot, but savers in Venezuela pushed back hard: a stablecoin is the only thing between them and a currency that halves overnight.
