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Recovering a TRON wallet with an Android exploit and brute force

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:00:00 -0300

Client shows up with a problem I see a lot: they have a TRON wallet on their phone, the seed phrase ended up in the trash years ago, and they don’t remember the app password. The money is still there, they can see it on the blockchain, but they can’t use it. Luckily they didn’t lose the phone or wipe anything in all this time. We agree on a fee and I start looking at what can be done.

Don't invest in yourself

Sun, 12 May 2024 09:03:20 -0300

I was reading Finance Twitter and saw someone ask a well-known Twitter user the same tired “what should I invest in” question, clarifying he was young, to which he replied it was better not to think about that and “invest in yourself” instead.

Run, Think, Shoot, Live

Wed, 18 May 2022 05:33:50 -0300

Half-Life changes the way you think about life; it’s not a normal first-person shooter. As someone who grew up playing Doom, the first time I played Half-Life I had one of the most important realizations as a child: you don’t need that much skill if you actually think, and running from problems is super useful and acceptable sometimes (one of the reasons that I also loved playing Resident Evil on my PSone back then, but it scared the hell out of me).