Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed
If you're a user -- owner? -- of this cryptocurrency, this is important: On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in…
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If you're a user -- owner? -- of this cryptocurrency, this is important: On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He found one fast enough to be embarrassing. The Orchard pool is the newest and most advanced shielded transaction system in the cryptocurrency Zcash.