The Mayflower wasn't a ship full of explorers chasing gold. It was a ship full of people who'd given up on a system that couldn't be fixed from the inside.
Before they landed, they wrote the Mayflower Compact. Forty-one signatures binding them to rules they made themselves, enforced by nothing but the document itself. No crown. No court. No appeals process.
The contract held because the math of survival required it to. That's the bet we're making. Markets that hold their contracts without anyone's permission. Floors that exist because the code says so, not because a foundation promises so.
A protocol where the rules are the rules, and they apply to everyone equally.
The Pilgrims didn't pick the Mayflower because it was the prettiest ship in the harbor.
They picked it because it was the one that could carry them through.
Same idea. New ocean.
WILD moment for Zcash here..
Not being able to know 100% will haunt $ZEC for eternity, but logically, it makes no sense to think someone found an infinite mint bug, exploited it, and didn't just instantly nuke it to 0..
Would be a first anyways..
HTF Fib pong. Just bear market tings imo. The not knowing part will make these mid-late summer dip buys extra sweaty🤪
No wonder $ZEC nuked 25%, pretty wild to not know whether the token was mass printed
Privacy becoming a bug not a feature
TL;DR
i) Bug found: May 29, 2026 by Taylor Hornby (AI-assisted audit - Opus 4.8 showing us what it’s made of!) in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool
ii) Issue: Under-constrained circuit (present since 2022) allowed unlimited undetectable counterfeit ZEC creation
iii) Response: Fully disclosed & fixed ecosystem-wide by June 2, 2026
iv) Exploitation risk: Unprovable due to privacy, but considered unlikely
v) Next steps (Shielded Labs):
New shielded pool + turnstile for verifiable supply
Hopefully there’s a clearer image in the coming days
@ZanderRails Yea.. ngl, only found out about it from the QRT's post, and the more I think on it, does seem like a non-starter for the grand thesis of global private money/store of value.
CaN DeVs Do SomEtHinG?!
@AdamZiz Could argue that someone smart enough to find that exploit would also be smart enough to be subtle with their sells and optimize for a long term extraction that the privacy bit enables..
Just seems improbable to me..
This will be the forever ZEC fud though regardless
First round of the year has been my best for 3 years running.
2023 - 94
2024 - 92
2025 - 96
2026….. 92
Set for a repeat this year 😆
Earning 3000 pts with #golfn App 💪
So @nockchain is going to reuse AI inference that is already happening at scale, to secure their blockchain
Inference providers earn block rewards and Nockchain's security goes way up. Win/Win
On Bitcoin, the mining work secures the chain only
Nockchain replaces hashing with zero knowledge proofs. Consensus does not care what you computed, only that you produced a valid proof below the difficulty target
So the miner and the inference provider become the same entity!
Lets walk through an example
🕐 You run a GPU
🕑 A customer pays you to run their AI inference request
🕒 You serve them the answer, and in doing that you produce a ZK proof of the computation
🕓 That same proof is your lottery ticket against the block reward
🕕 If it lands below the target, you just secured a block while getting paid by the customer
🕖 One job, two payouts, and the network gets secured by real economic work instead of wasted hashing
Nockchain already made chain improvements recently with Phase 2 (2.5 minute blocks and a protocol fund) but this update moves taps them into a huge existing increase in security supply while hitting the privacy aspects well
@Delphi_Ventures are proud $NOCK holders and we really like @loganallc, @chiefgrug and the team. They have persevered through some big hurdles and delivered.
Watched most of the Enhanced Games last night, I've been excited about this concept since hearing the founders on @joerogan pod last year.
Thoughts:
- Kicking things off with a bunch of aged, podium adjacent ex-Olympians was the best they could do for the initial event
- Top athletes in their prime won't touch these games (yet), it would nuke their Olympic aspirations
- Only seeing one world record broken doesn't disprove the model.. Enhancements work (obviously), they just didn't have the best athletes competing
- If they survive long enough, more top tier athletes will draw into the event, for the salary and prize money
Overall it was an interesting experiment, despite being quite underwhelming the first time around..
I'm hopeful they made enough to stick around and do a few more. It's nice to see career athletes in these events getting paid training, and achievement incentives that reward them for the effort
I remain cautiously optimistic about the future of the @enhanced_games 🙏