Gnosis is considering a hard fork to recover funds from the Balancer hack.After the hack, ~$9.4M was frozen on Gnosis Chain via a soft fork.Funds cannot move from the attacker's address. The funds are stuck.Returning them to victims requires a hard fork.I think Gnosis clearly sits in the low-risk DeFi category (ironically), where protecting users comes first.Because Gnosis is positioning itself for neofinance and enterprise-focused Web3 services, not for Ethereum-style immutability absolutism.In any case, t ...

RT Mechanic #FixTheFilters #300kb (@GrassFedBitcoin)Mining is centralized.The concern around objectionable content is met with appeals to decentralization of mining - i.e a Bitcoin network that doesn't exist.Until now, what has already been "technically possible" with storing nasty stuff in the chain wasn't.1. "The" mempool was protected because everyone would filter a sick 100kb OP_RETURN along with *all* OP_RETURNs greater than 83 bytes.2. The blockchain was protected because the few miners there are in t ...