Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer

Senior iOS Engineer · Built USVdApp (Solana wallet, live on App Store) · Swift, SwiftUI, Secure Enclave, Web3 · 10+ years iOS ·

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

Zcash just lost ~48% in 48 hours.
Here’s what happened:

https://t.co/FuNWdDIGnD researcher Taylor Hornby, using Claude Opus 4.8, found a critical bug in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool

2.The bug had been live since May 2022 — 4 years

https://t.co/suFTJofclf could’ve let attackers mint unlimited counterfeit $ZEC with zero trace

4.Emergency hard fork patched it June 3rd

5.Arthur Hayes dumped his entire ZEC bag

The scariest part?
Because Orchard is a privacy pool, there’s no cryptographic way to prove whether someone already exploited it.
The same privacy that makes $ZEC valuable is what makes this kind of bug catastrophic.

Privacy coins are a double-edged sword.
And AI just became the sharpest audit tool in crypto.

#ZEC #Zcash #Crypto

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

Split screen on iPhone isn’t just a multitasking upgrade — it’s the groundwork for the foldable. You don’t build this feature without a bigger screen on the horizon. Ship it in iOS 27, polish it for a year, and the foldable launches with split-screen ready on day one. Apple thinking two moves ahead. 👀

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@UniverseIce 201g for a large foldable is the real milestone. Not the screen, not the crease — the weight. That’s what makes foldables go mainstream. Samsung gets a lot wrong on the rollout, but the hardware engineering here deserves respect.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@Cointelegraph If this is your first crash, welcome. If it’s your fifth, you already know — zoom out, stop staring at the 1-minute chart, and close the app. Same movie, different season. See you at the ‘why didn’t I buy’ posts in three months.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@gregjoz @SamiFathi_ Best week of the year. No other company invites its entire developer community to watch the platform evolve live. Whatever they announce June 8, half my codebase is getting rebuilt by Tuesday. Worth it every single time. 🔥 #WWDC26

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@MacRumors Apple watched Samsung rename the Fold three times, noted every crease complaint, and waited until they had a liquid metal hinge ready. This is the whole philosophy — don’t ship first, ship right. 🔥

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@WatcherGuru From 74K to 66K and suddenly everyone forgot they were ‘in it for the tech.’ 😂

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

Foldable iPhone Ultra Leaked? 📱

A new image allegedly showing Apple’s first foldable iPhone has surfaced online via trusted insider Ice Universe.

The most eye-catching detail is the device’s unusual aspect ratio, hinting at a very different design compared to existing foldables.

📅 Rumors suggest Apple could unveil the foldable iPhone alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, while the standard iPhone 18 may be delayed until next spring.

👀 If real, this could be Apple’s biggest iPhone redesign in years.

#Apple #iPhoneUltra #FoldableiPhone #iPhone18Pro #TechNews #AppleLeaks #Innovation

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

We went from owning our music, our apps, our files — to renting access to all of it by the month. The scary part isn’t the price. It’s that one missed payment locks your entire digital life. We don’t own things anymore. We lease our own taste back to ourselves.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@Saurav_DJ47 The biggest design change in years is… 2019. 😄 To be fair, the S10 bar aged better than basically everything that came after it. Sometimes the old answer was the right one.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@egeberkina As an iOS dev this is my actual sleep paralysis demon. Icon recognizability runs on color + shape memory. Replace all that with men in quarter-zips and now you’re squinting at four identical executives trying to find Spotify. 😂

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@theapplecycle A delay here is the right call. Glasses live or die on all-day comfort, battery, and latency. Ship those half-baked and you get a Vision Pro reception, not an AirPods one. Late and right beats early and returned.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@coderaw_ The deep purple. The bold Pro color always ages better than people expect, and it hides the housing shadow without looking sterile. Everyone defaults to black — this is the one you’ll still like in two years.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@UniverseIce An anti-leak case so effective it got the device photographed at a restaurant. 😄 The mystery armor is the giveaway — nobody wraps a normal phone in black camouflage at lunch. And it’s still the ‘Fold8 Wide → Fold8’ rename, so even the disguise can’t hide the naming chaos.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@theapplecycle People forget Apple’s usually two or three cycles deep before the current one even ships. iOS 27 lands this fall and the ‘Bell’ team’s already been at it for months. That overlap is exactly why the platform stays coherent year to year — nothing ships in a panic.

[USV @USVdApp]

Gm
Get smart coffee ☕️ $sol

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

This is the kind of investment that actually moves a city forward. A fifth graduating class means it’s not a one-off PR play — it’s a real pipeline. Developer skills compound: every grad can build, ship, and eventually hire. Detroit’s got the talent and the grit, and tools like this are how the economy rebuilds. Rooting for them.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@elonmusk Legacy media doesn’t report the news, it curates which deaths you’re allowed to care about. When a story doesn’t fit the narrative, it simply doesn’t exist. That’s the whole game.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@9to5mac @mvcmendes Remember when you bought a song and it was actually yours? iTunes had it right. Now it’s tiers on tiers — miss a payment and your whole library disappears. We don’t own music anymore, we lease access to it.

[Aleksei Bulatnikov | iOS Engineer @Albu_Studio]

@TheAppleDesign Once you’ve compiled on Apple Silicon, you don’t go back. Full build day, fan never spins, still 40% battery. Treasure is the right word. 😅