The bug they mentioned apparently was not shipped to customers. Even if it was it makes no sense. I believe NVK slipped when talking to Odell. Everyone's quiet because the liability is off the charts. This "bug" doesn't happen by accident. They even joked about a retirement bug.

"AI, explain what utxo meant by this post"

@Laser

The way it was described on air implies remote theft. Not consistent with the bug they cite which requires physical USB access.

I doubt Odell knew. But I think NVK Slipped and it is more likely than not that it was an engineered "retirement attack". Many in the space refuse to acknowledge this theory because it is inconvenient. Laser is over the target and has nothing to gain either way.

https://www.pullthatupjamie.ai/app/share?clip=e8e39508-1a5e-47c2-a1e3-4d04d4c43b96_p247

"It looks like a mistake it doesn't look like a malicious thing"

I wanna see a debate on this. I don't buy it.

https://www.pullthatupjamie.ai/app/share?clip=e8e39508-1a5e-47c2-a1e3-4d04d4c43b96_p19

I will give credit to for bringing it up but the FROST Snap guys are saying "aww shucks he just trusted some random on the internet using micro python".

I can't tell if there's collusion/concerted effort to suppress the malicious theory, if these guys are all afraid of litigation or if they're really this high on the elation of being "smarter" than NVK/Gray.

It isn't just plebs though it is very skilled developers.

In a sense I respect the humility behind "I could see myself making this #ifdef error". But IMO it let's the CTO off cheap. This is exactly the type of obfuscation I would introduce if I were up to no good. This is exactly the plausible deniable I would manufacture.

Being real with myself: I could definitely see myself making a fatal error like this that got into an engineering sample lot but NEVER into production. I would lose sleep and probably come up with an empirical way to measure the entropy of seeds produced on the production line itself to detect just such an error.

These are the rebuttals I hear:
1. "Ya but they were just trying to make it seem like they had a lot of contributors."
2. "Well this could have happened to anyone it was a sneaky bug"

I personally don't buy it but I'm trying to figure out how to break through to those people.

link?

Credit where it's due: Danny on WBD did cover it and insert it in his convo with the FROST Snap guys.