So it’s even worse than I previously thought.
- Noone can prove the integrity of Orchard pool.
- Implementing a new shielded pool and applying turnstile on Orchard moving to the new shield pool will take a lot of time + if exploit had happened and the hacker is fast enough, they will be able to move their fake coins to the new shielded pool BEFORE real coins are moved.
- Codes are made by humans and non-perfect AI. NOONE can be 100% sure that the any shielded pools are 100% bug-free all the time. This time maybe we are lucky that our guy with Opus 4.8 found it before a North Korean hacker with Opus 4.8, but next year what if the North Korean hacker finds another bug first with Opus 4.9 / Mythos / whatever smartest AI out there? In the age of AI, anything can happen. Unless we achieve AGI with 100% accuracy and uses that AGI to build 100% bullet-proof codes, no way ZEC or XMR or any other cryptos can become private store of value.