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The Chopping Block: Who’s to Blame for the Curve Hack? - Ep. 526

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The Zero Day of Cryptocurrency

Three versions of Viper had an issue in the way that re-entrancy lock was used. This is a zero day that's lived and died two years ago, you know, where this is its ancient history in crypto terms. It didn't have a flashing highlight that said hey, there's a bug here. The way that it was dealt with was fix allocation of unused storage slots in the releases. I think this is the first time that we've seen a wave of Bugs all around the same kind of topic based on a trust assumption. Does this mean there should be more? Financial incentive to look at the lower stack layer 0.5 if you were to consider the compiler to be

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