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The host is back after a two-week hiatus — and Episode 29 is a big one. After explaining exactly where he's been (recovering from a nasty bout of food poisoning courtesy of a 2:30 a.m. street-vendor sandwich, landing his first paid agentic-coding consulting gig, and getting locked out of his own podcast dashboard by a sneaky $180/year "paid ads" sign-up on his distribution platform), he dives into four weeks' worth of stories he missed while offline.
The Zano inflation bug, deep dive. Hardfork 6's new gateway addresses feature introduced an issuance flaw that let attackers mint unauthorized Zano and FUSD. Detected September 25th, fixed by a full chain rollback to block 3,833,000 on September 28th — roughly three days, with full reimbursements promised to affected users. Price dropped 20–36%, but the host argues the team's response earns trust: compare it to the Coldcard wallet hack, where customers still haven't been made whole.
Inflation bugs are nothing new. A tour through the history books: Zcash's Orchard pool flaw (undetected for four years, ZEC down 30–50%), Harmony's ~$4 billion ONE minting incident, Bitcoin's legendary 184-billion-BTC block in 2010, and Bitcoin's 2018 near-miss. The takeaway: it's software, and we haven't seen the last of it. Plus a pointed argument that wallet and chain vendors should be moving marketing budgets into AI-assisted security auditing — attackers are already using AI against your stack.
PS5 "Relapse" jailbreak. Someone finally jailbroke the PS5 — a low-effort, DNS-change exploit covering firmware 7.00 through 13.60, built on a two-stage WebKit memory-corruption + kernel race-condition chain that completes in seconds instead of the 50 minutes older methods took. The timing is perfect: it lands weeks after Sony conceded in court that players don't actually own their digital games, amid an active class action.
Bitget hit for $387.5M — and the hacker is laundering through Zcash. The irony is thick: the attacker has moved ~2,700 ZEC into Zcash's shielded pool, while CEO Gracy Chen — a vocal Hyperliquid critic — points fingers at North Korea-linked actors. Chainalysis and TRM track the hops across cross-chain swap services, Thorchain halts swaps under emergency protocol, NEAR's Shields system rejects $50M+ in tainted swaps, and Bitget puts up a 5% bounty on frozen/recovered funds. The age-old "permissionless" debate reignites.
Shiny Hunters vs. the FBI. The FBI told staff that every employee's personal data may be compromised after Shiny Hunters breached FBIJobs.com through an unpatched PeopleSoft zero-day — 2–3 terabytes of agent and applicant data,
This episode contains strong language and adult themes, listener discretion advised.
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