waxwing on Nostr: A guy is claiming a 750K bounty for finding the zcash infinite inflation bug and not ...
A guy is claiming a 750K bounty for finding the zcash infinite inflation bug and not exploiting it.
A lot of gushing in the comments about how great this guy is.
But he literally, logically, cannot prove he didn't steal any zcash. Maybe if they turnstiled 100% then there would be retroactive proof but that seems practically impossible, for the same reason they couldn't do it for Sprout.[1] There was over $2B at stake, zero chance it'll all be cleaned out.
Sure, the great unwashed are not going to get this. But there are no experts correcting them.
https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/retroactive-grant-application-orchard-counterfeiting-vulnerability-bug-bounty/57008[1] same reason we can't post-quantumize 2009 btc!
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