Anthropic

Opinion: From nothing bitcoin came, and to nothing it will return theglobeandmail.com/business…

🚨 Canada’s institutional capture is now complete. Since 2015 the Liberals have appointed: ⚖️ 740 of 1,000 federal judges 🏛️ 7 of 9 Supreme Court justices 📜 100 of 105 senators 📰 Fund 30% of every reporter’s salary in Canada And that’s just the foundation. Add to that: 📺 CBC: $1.4B annually to defend the Liberal narrative 🏦 Bank of Canada: Redefining recession in real time 📊 StatsCan: Counting Census workers as permanent jobs 📬 Senate: Hiding 240,000 democratic postcards in a warehouse 🌐 Bill C-8: MPs can delete you from the internet without a judge 🎙️ Carney on tape: Admitting central bankers bypassed voters on ESG They control the courts. They control the Senate. They control the Supreme Court. They control the media funding. They control the state broadcaster. Now they want to control the internet. Not one institution left standing independently. This is not democracy. This is managed decline with Canadian characteristics. And most Canadians are still waiting for CBC to tell them about it. 🇨🇦 Repost and Bookmark🔖 this post. 🇨🇦💀 #CdnPoli #Democracy #InstitutionalCapture #Carney #DefundCBC

Denmark publishes crime by country of origin, not nationality. I looked at 2021-2025 data. Overall: Somali-origin 7.8x the Danish rate. American-origin 0.34x. Thread of Top Five and Bottom Five.

You have absolutely disgraced yourself publishing this, globe. We all clearly don’t hate the media enough.

If only we had money the government couldn't control.

I find the 2 most insufferable group of people on the planet are lifetime educators and lifetime politicians. Both live in a fantasy world that lacks common sense and would not survive a day in the real world

The scary part about Anthorpic's Fable nerf is not that it refuses to answer biology or cryptography. It's that it foreshadows what's coming. A world where a couple companies decide what you can and cannot do. They're building a new ruling class and you're not in it...

If you’re building meta agents Pivot to Agentic Indians

BREAKING Liberals SHUT DOWN my motion for the Privacy Commissioner to testify on Liberal Surveillance Law C-22. The Commissioner has SOUNDED THE ALARM on a Bill that gives the Govt SWEEPING new powers to collect personal data & surveil Canadians. Now they want to SILENCE him.

bought the bottom and shorted the top on everything depending how it moved btw

I'll believe in Santa Claus before I believe that LA’s mayoral election is legitimate

California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including: -Gym membership card -Employer ID card -Credit or debit card -Prescription drug label -Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants) Full list: sos.ca.gov/elections/hava-id… This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look. We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies. On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot. For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections. @AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed. What are they afraid of?

Everyone can use @elonmusk's "Magic Wand Number" and "Idiot Index" They're universal ideas, helpful in any industry.

Maybe the top is in and we’re about to head back to the Stone Age

Deribit Executive: Bitcoin Break Below $60K Could Trigger Liquidations CoinDesk reported that Deribit Chief Commercial Officer Jean-David Péquignot said $60,000 is a key Bitcoin level, with more than $1.2 billion in notional open interest tied to put options at that strike on Deribit. He noted that a move below $60,000 could force market makers to hedge short gamma exposure by selling spot or futures, while elevated leverage may trigger a cascade of long liquidations.

Turns out ZEC did have a hidden infinite inflation bug. The price action historically was consistent with it. If someone is sitting on infinite ZEC they had minted, they’d slowly liquidate to not reveal this fact.

Oh you mean $ZEC the coin whose HQ is 5min from CIA had an "exploit" in it that could mint infinite coins And was mentioned multiple times in the epstein files? HAD AN "SECRET" EXPLOIT SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUREEEEE

👉For 4 years, 1 day, and 10 hours, anyone who understood the Orchard circuit could have minted ZEC out of thin air, silently, with no on-chain signature. The bug was disclosed this week. It was found by an AI-driven audit running Opus 4.8, not by an attacker. 1. Call the bug what it is Two lines in halo2's variable-base scalar multiplication gadget used assign_advice() where copy_advice() was required. As a result, the diversified-address integrity check pk_d = [ivk]·g_d could be satisfied for arbitrary inputs. A malicious prover could spend the same note multiple times with different nullifiers, i.e. counterfeit ZEC inside the Orchard pool, undetectable on-chain because the privacy of the ZK proof hides exactly the inputs that would reveal the attack. We do not know whether it was exploited. We will probably never know. 2. Four years. Multiple audits. Top-tier reviewers. Orchard was reviewed by some of the strongest cryptographers in the field before activation. They missed it. Earlier automated audits with Opus 4.7 missed it. Opus 4.8 catches it in roughly 1 in 4 runs when prompted generically. The bug is hard. And ZK inflation bugs are not new. Zcash itself shipped a counterfeiting vulnerability in Sprout (BCTV14) that survived years before being silently neutralized during Sapling. Similar soundness issues have appeared in circom, halo2, and rollup verifiers since. The pattern is consistent: when the protocol is private, exploitation is undetectable. You patch the bug and hope. 3. What Zcash did right This was a textbook decentralized incident response: ▶️Audit: a full AI-assisted soundness audit of halo2 Orchard, scoped end-to-end. ▶️Discover: the agent flagged the missing constraint and worked out the algebra to turn it into an exploit. A working RPC-level PoC in ~6 hours, mostly waiting on tokens. ▶️Coordinate: a soft fork disabling Orchard, prepared and distributed without leaking the bug, activated 2 days and 15 hours after acknowledgement. Coordinating a soft fork across miners, exchanges, and nodes without disclosing why is genuinely hard. They did it. ▶️Disclose: timeline, code lines, math, open questions. No spin. Worth naming explicitly: Zcash's turnstile invariant caps the value that can ever leave a shielded pool by the value that entered it. Privacy and verifiability inside the same protocol. That is not an accident. That is good engineering, and it is what kept the worst case bounded. 4. The economics of security just changed AI does not change whether bugs like this exist. It changes the cost of finding them. I wrote about this x.com/P3b7_/status/203643721…: a missing constraint in a 4-year-old production ZK circuit used to require a top-tier cryptographer with months of context. It now requires a few tokens, an API key, and a well-framed prompt. The defender benefits. The attacker benefits more, they only need to find it once, and they never disclose. Orchard is the optimistic version of this story: defense got there first. The pessimistic version is the one we cannot rule out, because the chain is private by design. 5. The only real exit You do not patch your way out of this asymmetry. You raise the floor. Formal verification of consensus-critical circuits, every assign_advice audited by SAT solvers and AI for under-constraint, as the reporter himself recommends. Proof-grade engineering that used to be too expensive is now cheap enough to be mandatory. Hardware roots of trust, secure enclaves, certified secure elements, WYSIWYS. Cryptographic guarantees the user can actually verify, not promises a host can lie about. Continuous AI-assisted audit of every consensus-critical commit, re-run immediately on the release of any new frontier model. Zcash didn't just patch a bug. They demonstrated the new defensive playbook: AI-driven audits, decentralized coordination, radical transparency, verifiable invariants. That is the direction the rest of the industry needs to follow. And those who don't raise the bar for security will be rekt in this new world. Stay safe. Stay honest about your trust assumptions.

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