White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug

Post by pg5 » Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:10 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #98

birracerveza wrote: post #88

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>But sorry to be that person, just a timely reminder of the truth: All cryptocurrencies and 'DeFi projects' are ponzi scams including Orchid. Seems like just an opinion to me, and a poorly opinionated one at that.

Can you name any examples of cryptocurrencies being used that are not scams, ponzi schemes or for speculative purposes? All I see are people holding coins and not using them at all for anything else other than 'I want coin to go up'.

Post by colesantiago » Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #92

colesantiago wrote: post #73

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I have no problem with white hat hackers, I'm saying more power to them in the broken web3 space, which that is a complete scam. However, I can use USD, GBP or any fiat currency in my local grocery store. Can I use Bitcoin, Shib, Doge, or even Orchid at my grocery store without waiting hours in the queue for the transaction to complete and no huge fees?

Not yet, but I don't think that we're too far away from using USD, GBP or any fiat currency as a unit of account at the POS and letting software handle ensuring that the buyer loses whatever assets they want to pay in and the seller receives whatever assets they want to be paid in. But that's orthogonal to how quickly the maintainers of these tokens can make changes in response to threats.

Post by saurik » Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:17 PM UTC

mhitza wrote: post #87

saurik wrote: post #21

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Hah! When I added SSL to my site a few days ago, I really cranked those settings hard trying to optimize for "security" on the Qualy's SSL Server Test. Do you know what the most secure cipher suite you actually support is (and are you sure the issue isn't that you aren't merely using a particularly-out-of-date copy of Firefox)?

Seems to be because of Fedora hardened policy and your site might be supporting SHA1 for use in signatures. One of the three changes with the default tweaks policy that probably makes sense https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StrongCryptoSettings2... When I set the crypto policy in Fedora to Legacy, which lifts those restrictions, I can visit your website. Chrome doesn't have this problem in Fedora because it ship…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:18 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #93

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Not sure it's actually applicable. That Reddit comment is about poor people winning lots of money by chance, not smart people earning lots of money by working. The risks are very different, not to say that the scale between 2 million and 170 million is way bigger than you seem to think.

Poor people aren’t stupid

Post by mymllnthaccount » Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:21 PM UTC

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Rich people of HN, is this true? I’d always heard each million is worth about $50k a year. Was that just during boom times, or simply mistaken?

Not even close. There's no reliable way to get a fixed income, and inflation is very high.