Taylor Hornby 🛡❤️

Security research ( EDM ( & board member @ Zcash Foundation.

[Taylor Hornby 🛡❤️ @DefuseSec]

Zcash unambiguously has the best security response in the world, thanks to @zodl_co and @ZcashFoundation engineers.

[Josh Swihart 🛡 @jswihart]

This is right.

Miners will look at, and compile the code before deploying. They question everything. It's in the own self-interest. It's how decentralization works - incentive alignment, without requiring trust.

This is why a soft fork was necessary before the hard fork. Miners knew there was a potential issue and agreed to stop mining Orchard txs for a time for the long term health of their own operations.

We couldn't immediately hard fork because they would have been able to see the issue in the code, which risked an exploit.

So, soft fork with majority hash rate to exclude Orchard transactions, then a hard fork a few hours later, where the fix was visible to miners, but not exploitable.

[lare🛡️ @lare888]

the level of coordination this took to perform in the execution window of like 4 days is honestly remarkable

it would not have been possible without Zcash’s culture

that cannot be replicated overnight it has taken over a decade

[Zcash Community Grants🛡 @ZcashCommGrants]

New Zebra 5.0.0 out, update your nodes now!
https://t.co/SVmJ04vk3K

[Sean Bowe @ebfull]

Shielded Labs has now funded efforts that helped to discover and remediate at least two major vulnerabilities in Zcash before they could be used by the bad guys!

[🛡️ @shieldedmark]

This is nothing short of world class. Best security response in all of tech, not just crypto.

Incredible job, each and every person involved.

[Zcash Open Development Lab @zodl_co]

https://t.co/oRMstGLqp5

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

@lukaskorba @BostonZcash After the AI Cyberpocalypse is over, we should give Lifetime Achievement Awards to these Zcash engineers who've been working super hard, day after day, week after week, month after month to protect all Zcash users through this historic transition from before AI to after AI.

[Zcash Community Grants🛡 @ZcashCommGrants]

Orchard pool is getting a security network upgrade.
For about next 11h Orchard transactions are paused.

[Zcash Open Development Lab @zodl_co]

https://t.co/xKjS67UzJD

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

The best case scenario for super intelligence would be to be embodied in an interstellar ship but incredibly cute and small, like a little Totoro - with little ion engines and if they hate us they can flourish in deep space

[Zcash Foundation 🛡️ @ZcashFoundation]

🚨 Zebra 4.5.0 is out. This release fixes multiple security vulnerabilities across consensus and networking.

All node operators should upgrade immediately.
https://t.co/3Iane54YsM

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

AI is clearly very intelligent. I don't understand how someone can work with the models in any sort of depth and think it's 'simply autocomplete.'

[jessicat @jessi_cata]

I think it is reasonable to default to skepticism / non-realism / deflationary views about much-debated metaphysical concepts which don't show up in physics or math.

E.g. free will, consciousness, morality, personal identity

(The metaphysical versions, not ordinary-language)

[Taylor Hornby 🛡❤️ @DefuseSec]

@scaling01 @pmarca Turing-complete computation took a hell of a long time for us to figure out despite lots of people manually doing calculations, thinking about calculating machines, etc.

[Mick West @MickWest]

@imrightthough Here you go. The plane keeps moving exactly the same. The camera just stops tracking the balloon.

[ＳＬＡＮＤＲ ＳＺＮ ☠️ @imrightthough]

@MickWest now use parallax to show the yellow dot zoom off while the background is still

we'll wait

[Mick West @MickWest]

An example of parallax. The yellow sphere is not moving, it's just hovering about 5,000 feet up. The camera filming it is moving in a straight line. So it looks like the sphere is moving in a straight line.

[Taylor Hornby 🛡❤️ @DefuseSec]

What's the current best candidate for a "move 37" vulnerability found by AI?