I'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers
> The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses.
3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.
> The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses.
3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.
My best guess is that people need to feel validated that crypto is smaller than its airtime, and that they didn't waste the last decade of their life in an echo chamber of things that went wrong in the space at the exclusion of the things working fine
A) no crypto enthusiast or speculator needs to be subscribed to the ethereum foundation’s blog since 2014, which was 10 years ago for reference. But even then forums and twitter worked well enough for resyndicating news.
B) Its more likely they pruned the mailing list multiple times after every bull cycle, asking people if they still wanted to be subscribed to reduce complaints and bounce rates. Crypto bear markets are deep doldrums.