Camilla/Lucivere

L33T - always! «Try anything once. If you like it - do it again! « IT - geeky and loving it! - if privacy matters!

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@Thoresen41 @nff_landslag @SAS @tv2sport @Fly_Norwegian @NRKno @JanToreKjr Har prøvd å riste i Forsvarssjefen, så får man se hva som skjer!!

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@alex_raxtix Yes: https://t.co/z0nLkHLtjZ

[Verus - The Internet of Value @VerusCoin]

From Discord:

We can confirm that 4052.4 ETH (around 75% of the stolen funds) have been returned to the funds return address by the bridge exploiter, and are now controlled by members of the Verus community. While we are hard at work on a plan to reintegrate those funds into the bridge and restore DeFi functionality, we would like to address a few key questions we have been seeing across public discussion and social media, invite everyone to participate in the community meeting taking place today at 19:00 UTC time [on Discord], discuss the plan going forward, and reflect a little on the events of the last few days.

Firstly, we would like to announce that we will be following our end of the publicly posted terms: we are ceasing any investigation we were previously conducting, and will not be pursuing the exploiters further or pressing charges. The 1350 ETH has been moved to another address by the exploiter, is a bounty and not viewed by us as stolen funds. To those asking how we came to the amount offered as the bounty, it was an amount that, along with the reduction of risk to them by considering this a bounty, we believed would be most likely to result in a return of funds. Out of respect for our end of the terms, we will not be engaging in discussion regarding the negotiation process.

Secondly, we need to acknowledge and learn from this experience as a community broadly, if we want a long and prosperous future for Verus as a project. Our success or challenges affect everyone in the community, and others indirectly through them. As mentioned in our breakdown of the exploit, it was both sophisticated and statistically fortunate. However, it was ultimately possible due to a chained together series of difficult to exploit software bugs, that on their own, could be considered minor. The few community developers that could have detected and fixed those issues before this event have been working, oftentimes as volunteers, tirelessly now for more than 8 years to bring the vision behind Verus to fruition. Although a small and appreciated number of core community members have listened and understood repeated attempts to sound the alarm about the need to fund development and continuous strengthening of a protocol as revolutionary as Verus, these discussions have often been overshadowed by marketing or other priorities first, even though the protocol, with unique capabilities and robustness, along with a breadth of core contributors make up the bedrock on which everything rests. Development donations even just to Valu's matching (Valu has offered to match up to 20k $ per month), a funded bug bounty program, or one or more extra pairs of skilled eyes developing on the Verus codebase may have enabled identifying and preventing this issue before it began, and would have cost a lot less than 3 million $. Although not exciting to hear or discuss, funding solid, sustainable development is as important as ever in the coming age of AI enabled exploits and quantum computing.

Finally, we would also like to mention that those looking to market or advertise themselves or their services (however well intentioned), whether that is auditing, investigation, etc. refrain from doing so in today's community meeting, and reach out to @lyonsnicholas1 ["Consilience" on Discord] directly instead. Today will be a chance to discuss how we plan to move forward from this event, and address any further questions regarding the incredibly stressful last few days. Although we can all breath a bit easier with the funds return having taken place, the hardest work to do to get Verus back on track is still ahead of us. Thank you all and we hope to see you here in the Verus Discord for today's community meeting at 19:00 UTC.

[Biz 💥 @BizMunny]

I dedicated most of the last two years of my time, toward realizing Verus’s DREAM app encryption model

Because I truly believe it can be the backbone for a safer internet

This entailed: learning full stack mobile development, zcash-style note encryption, and zip32 key management for the first time

while upgrading a rust backend, SDKs for both mobile platforms, a golang layer for lightwalletd, integrating these seamlessly with an existing mobile app, forging upgrade paths where none existed, & preserving backwards compatibility

The end result also now gives us easily attainable upgrades paths to: orchard, HD transparent addresses, and some other key scope privacy improvements too

Zcash R&D team was very helpful, but even they admitted the sheer volume of differences was hard to elucidate clearly

We are finally there. I’m quite proud of the work, and now have tons of experience at all levels of stack

Take some time to watch Michael Toutonghi’s Keynote Presentation, where he explains very cogently why you, too, should care

There are many reasons that I chose to spend my time learning and implementing on Verus. All the claims made are - put simply - gloriously true

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@daraobriain You should’ve asked me what I do, but he chose 7 instead of 1😂 #oslogig

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@torbae Under rydding av families eiendom, fant man Norsk Familie Journal fra 1909. Se på disse sjakkoppgavene da🤩

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk DA er det juleferie, når Magnus kaster jakka på NRK!

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@TheFlatEartherr This is an exerpt from 2019 video, from a Norwegian concept called "BliMe!" that has existed since 2010. Nothing at all to do with Covid!

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk Hjemmelaget pizza med årets julegave - pizzaovn! Og sjakk som årets romjulsunderholdning såklart!

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@Gamevid4

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@daraobriain Oh! The inhumanity! Teasing with a new tour, and no dates, no tickets? Wah! Looking forward to your return to Norway :)

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@MonicaHolmbukt Tvinner tomler her også!

[Cragorn (Cragorn.vrsc@) @Cragorn1]

My wife just texted me asking what this amazing stuff is all about, referring to the meeting we just finished. My reply was that yeah, it is actually "amazing stuff", but in the Verus community we call it "Tuesday". Happy about that one since she laughed, but it’s not a joke.

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk Gratulerer til vår mester fra Lommedalen! 🍾🤩

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk får vi se Johan Sebastian omvendt-kaste jakka? DET ville vært gøy🤩

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk Uten Bae-kommentarer hadde jeg ikke rukket å få med meg noen av svakhetene her, tusen takk for at du gjør dette så spennende!

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk Dette må gå veien for vfl! Hvite bukser og hvite brikker i siste parti - vinnende kombinasjon🤩

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk Ugla hukrer faktisk!

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk Mer sjakk i dag, også med flotteste Klokkis da! Hils til alle nerder der ute da😄

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

#nrksjakk Gratulerer med ti år🍾 Det gledes til en romjul med sjakk🤩

[Camilla/Lucivere @Lucivere]

@MikeToutonghi There were a few channels I could type in, so tried to warn. Got banned a few minutes later.