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RT @zooko: You have a problem. You ask the government to solve it. Now you have two problems.
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Zcash Ecosystem Digest | June 14th
🔸Zebra 5.1.0 Node Release @ZcashFoundation
🔸Applications open for Zcon7 @Zcash
🔸@AnthropicAI assists @ShieldedLabs with Mythos Zcash Audit
🔸ZCAP Poll Opens for @ZcashCommGrants Candidates
🔸PGPZ - (Pretty Good Policy) for Zcash Launches!
Full Digest:
zechub.substack.com/p/zcash-…
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Update: still no Fable, so I decided to take a nap too
Hey @AnthropicAI @DavidSacks, I was gonna try to get some work done today during my toddler's naptime, so it'd be great if I can have Fable back in the next 3hrs, k thx
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
Zcash Weekly #13
Two weeks after the Orchard bug:
- Anthropic audited the protocol. No serious bugs found.
- Ironwood spec finalized. New pool targeting late July.
- Zebra forcing node upgrades before activation.
From crisis to hardening in 14 days. Bullish.
cipherscan.app/newsletter/we…
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RT @theblockprof: @zooko Interesting to see how the economics of LLM evolve. It seems there will be a market for cutting edge LLM, that onl…
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dang it is complicated to build an efficient, lockless, quarantined linked list using compare-and-swap and it would be easy using load-linked/store-conditional. Weren't there some science papers decades ago proving those two are equivalent? Well if so I'm calling bullshit.
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I guess the equivalence is that you can always implement LL/SC with CAS plus a counter, right? Well I've been struggling without success to fit such counters into my data structure.
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If Intel and AMD had implemented LL/SC a decade ago, I would be done with this part. 😭
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Heartening to see.
The cloud rebellion against labs.
Microsoft is positioning as the neutral stateful aggregation layer for models. In tone, it is positioning pro-businesses building on top, whereas ai labs have self positioned as “intelligence eating everything”.
Microsoft’s position rings true from its track record. The other clouds will adopt this product positioning as well (bedrock has for some time).
It’s good to see multiple mega corps competing it can be an antidote to vertical integration.
We need open networks to win in order to maximize individual agency post AGI.
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You have a problem. You ask the government to solve it. Now you have two problems.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
While everyone is discoursing about what a "trillion dollars" means, take a moment to remember that time the United States spent $1.2 trillion for an "infrastructure bill" in order to build all this new and improved infrastructure we're surely now enjoying.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
One in four people worldwide does not have the Internet. I am always surprised at this stat. That's a lot of people.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
Privacy is not a narrative.
It's a human need.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
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How $2.1M got drained from Aztec Connect:
- Aztec Connect was a privacy based zkRollup on Ethereum
- Aztec Labs shut it down in 2023 to focus on newer tech
- Users were given over a year to withdraw their funds
- In 2024, Aztec gave up control of the system and removed admin access
- The contracts became fully immutable and could no longer be upgraded or paused
- Around $2.1M in assets remained locked up inside old smart contracts
- An attacker found a way to exploit the public rollup processing function
The exploit drained:
• 909 $ETH
• 270K $DAI
• 167 $wstETH
• Other assets
- Total losses exceeded $2.1M
- The attacker funded the wallet using Tornado Cash before the exploit
- Current users were not affected
- The incident is another reminder that abandoned DeFi contracts can still become targets years later
Attacker:
0x0F18D8b44a740272f0be4d08338d2b165b7EdD17
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RT @thefrozenfire: @zooko @alinush An important distinction here is that Dario doesn't actually reference the US government *as such*. In "…
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Mal: You called the feds.
Jayne: What? I got pinched!
Mal: Which is what happens when you call the feds.
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RT @archerships: @zooko My claims don't require that Amodei be insincere.
He could sincerely believe that an AI apocalypse is imminent…
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Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux…
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
Fable was the best model I have ever run for zk-autoresearch. Best quality out of ~500 iterations. Never triggered the safety check once on cryptography research. Its first iteration reinvented a known PCS construction from first principles, without reading the papers. It just reasoned its way there.
72 hours later the US government pulled it. Export controls. I'm in Budapest, so if maintained I lose access to the best tool for zk-autoresearch.
This is the AI arms race moving from papers to policy. If export controls hold, the research community splits in half. Open research that was becoming accessible through LLMs slows down overnight.
The alarmism-as-marketing crowd should take a hard look at this. They gave the government the perfect ground for exactly this outcome.
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