The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
@Samwise_Ganji Fiat is a sham, the banking class is corrupt, decentralized digital currency and the blockchain are the inevitable future, and the incumbents will fight it to the death.
If you connect the dots hard enough — the exploit went through, and the optimized route for the exploiter to offload their newfound infinite supply was to pay for a coordinated pump of the coin, which we witnessed via the biggest names in this space, all at the same time.
@kerrinnaude@DrOsitaMba@derJamesJackson She’s the actual definition of girlboss in a sarcastic sense, you wouldn’t believe how well she fits the role and how many naive stupid women support her bs
Just for the record - ZODL, a for-profit entity funded by VC firms, secretly coordinated an entire soft and hard fork of a network, and now are using it for marketing purposes tell you NOT to use open source wallets who aren’t VC funded.
The full story:
1. As one of the largest ecosystem participants in Zcash (both as a wallet and a merchant via Cake Pay), we had to find out about the bug from an X post and were never contacted to start patching our nodes or wallets ahead of time.
2. Every question we sent on X and DMs to ZODL folks was ignored until after they had the opportunity to patch in secret before releasing code.
3. The fix was (understandably) obfuscated and commits were held back until the release was out, so we had no way to see what was necessary to resolve client-side until long after ZODL and who knows who else.
4. We were only able to get a response and talk to those in the know on the bug/fix as of 3h ago, despite repeated efforts on all platforms for two days, but they have been helpful since then.
I understand the need for doing things quietly when critical bugs are found in consensus code, but refusing to notify or communicate at all with your FOSS ecosystem partner (likely because they feel threatened by our competition) is absolutely insane and an abuse of the insider access that ZODL has, EVEN MORE SO now that they’re a for-profit company that has to serve its VC interests.
This is not the way decentralized networks should be run, is not the way FOSS communities should coordinate responses to responsibly disclosed bugs, and is yet another frustrating saga in Zcash having good tech but an immensely frustrating social layer.