Two weeks later, the kasmiths forum is up and running, and there is now a dedicated repo for the standards effort as well: Kaspa Calls for Conventions (KCCs), a new kaspanet repo for converging on actual, formally defined specs and conventions.
Each KCC is a Kaspa Call for a Convention: a document specifying a convention around which independent ecosystem participants and implementations may converge. Topics may include covenant conventions, script-level ABIs, asset standards, wallet and indexer interoperability, based applications, and more.
The first KCCs are already taking shape. @manyfest_ just PRed KCC20, a fungible token covenant specification:
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and afaik @iziodev is working on KCC1, a script-bytecode ABI for stateful covenants. This should extract and lift the pure definitions currently living at compiler level (ie silverscript), into a shared reusable convention.
Together, the forum and repo provide a path from open technical discussion to actual specs, before incompatible assumptions turn into deployed fragmented implementations.
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🚀 KasCAP Holder Verification System Complete 🚀
The holder verification system has now been successfully implemented on the official website!
Holder-exclusive content can be accessed by connecting your KasWare Wallet and verifying ownership.
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The first feature to use this system is KASHIN Manga Chapter 2.
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The fundraiser to get #Kaspa at Imperial College London has reached its $8,000 milestone!
Its great to see the $KAS donations coming in: 138 transactions so far.
We are happy to have reached enough funds and can go to Imperial to create awareness about Kaspa.
The funds upto $10,000 will be used for the streched goals for additional visibility including merchandise.
ps. If it happens to be the case that the donations keep going and we reach Silver, a lot more can be done even. Silver includes a booth and a 30-minute keynote talk during the opening and closing ceremony as awell as a bounty for the hackaton. That will increase the exposure a lot.
We do expect to be signing off with the organizers coming week. If so, we will ofcourse give another update.
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since many (~4) asked me about the zcash bug - - - earlier this year I had this convo with a zcash core dev:
zk: it's weird that kaspa is pruning past records
me: why does it need to keep 'em?
zk: the whole point of ledgers is to prove correctness of all state transitions
me: the whole point of ledgers is to provide focal points for the consensus state
zk: the whole point...
me: hmm then why did you come work in zcash? you know the Sprout->Sapling counterfeiting bug
zk: Turnstile guarantees that the counterfeit could have been very limited
me: true but you still cannot prove or even reason about correct state transitions besides the total supply cap
zk: that's actually a good point
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the most hardcore cryptography coin is shifting away from correctness proofs to practical-enough proofs. I believe this is a step in the right+practical direction, yet the paradigm shift should not go unnoticed - -cryptography is giving way to consensus.
if you came to zcash for cryptographic integrity, reconsider. there are many good reasons to root for zcash prospering. zcash is serving a more important role than bitcoin, whose utility for the original mission is by now blurry. cryptographic integrity is/should not be one of those reasons.
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BTW the bug should definitely have been exploited. I don't know the personal values of Taylor Hornby, and I shouldn't be required to make the effort to learn them. I only know that if I found such an exploit, it wouldn't take me more than a few minutes to tempt myself into printing a longint amount of ZEC and deciding later what to do with it.
I wouldn't necessarily use it to exit the pool immediately and corrupt the supply, I'd wait to see if some portion of the broken pool does not seem to migrate on time (probably lost funds), in which case I would not think twice before claiming the funds myself.
you could argue that no harm done, and you might be right, but then again you are here -- in zcash / in crypto -- for its consensus dynamics, the ability to coordinate interests and convictions across different trust zones around some shared asset; not for some pristine mathematical integrity.