What interests me this week

I've been a builder of software for two decades. There's a sense of egoistic pride that building something out of nothing is like performing magic.

When it comes to crypto though, I wonder if what got me here will get me there. If I set the financial endgame purely on money (as opposed to advancing civilization), is the act and craft of building smart contract as valuable as hacking them?

The math works out entirely different. Building a new defi protocol is a speculative entrepreneurship enterprise.

The bounty though is fixed in an existing smart contract honey pot. It's not truly a business, it need not be sustainable. One windfall will probably be enough.

Pragmatically, a lot of smart contracts are done in Solidity, an immature language that's ripe for exploitation. So there is a marco business case for it.

But breaking things is a different skillset; something a lot of people mistake for being the same. What I want to find out is how the breaker-psyche works. It's possible that I'm not cut out for it at all; or that I have some undiscovered talent there.