Since my original post and the update, a lot of clones have emerged. I decided to report all of them in a periodical update. If you have additional information about those Ponzi schemes, please share them in the comments. In this month update a new player have surfaced: 12x12.io. It…

Since my original post and the update, a lot of clones have emerged. I decided to report all of them in a periodical update. If you have additional information about those Ponzi schemes, please share them in the comments. Polygon Network Similar scams, different network. Number 7 (StableOne) on the list…

If you followed my previous posts about BNBFactor, you would have noticed that the contract balance is 0. Someone is watching all the new investments in this depleted contract and withdraws the invested amount immediately. What’s disturbing is that the withdraw is happening on the sam block of the investment…

Since my original post and the update, a lot of clones have emerged. I decided to report all of them in a periodical update. If you have additional information about those Ponzi schemes, please share them in the comments. DYOR. If you do decide to participate in any of…

Lately I was involved in a few BNB yield farms on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). These were high risk yield farms, that are based on rewards paid from the dapp smart contract, as long as the balance of the contract is positive. In most cases this is done by recruiting…

For the past 20 years or so, I’ve been posting here and there on my personal blogs. In English: https://blogs.ophir.org.il And Hebrew: https://blogsh.ophir.org.il As work/life load increased over time, the frequency of my posts have reduced, until it came to almost complete stop in recent years. My blogs were just…

Tracking a mysterious address from the past It is a well known secret that I am the family historian. I research the family origin, history and where about. It is also known in our family, that my grand father lost most of his family in the Holocaust. …

Where did they came from? Any computer science’s graduate knows that Foo and Bar are the stars of programming examples, object oriented demos and lecturer’s slides. But where did they came from? When? And who gave them these funny names? In many exercises these star as variable names. However some people think that the origin of Foo and Bar are in the US military during the WWII era. It stands as the acronym for “Fucked Up Beyond All Repair”, “Fucked Up Beyond Any Recognition” or the most common translation “Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.”