Trivia is on in the Discord this evening, 9 PM CET.
Usual format: questions about privacy tech, a scoreboard everybody insists they don't care about, and at least one round where the correct answer turns out to be attestation again. Somebody with a cartoon avatar is going to
1/ Decoded: why a private swap can't be front-run
Front-running gets discussed like somebody is cheating, but nobody is cheating.
You published the exact trade you were about to make, the size of it, and how much slippage you'd tolerate, and then acted betrayed when a stranger
The mempool is a group chat where everyone can see what you're about to do and you're the only one in it who thinks this is private, and somewhere along the way we all agreed that was fine and started calling it transparency.
This week we're getting into what changes when
Food for thought: "trust me" and "check for yourself" can produce the same result for years.
One holds because someone keeps choosing to keep their word. The other holds because it cannot do otherwise.
Usually you only learn which one you had when it stops working.