Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital discusses how hackers likely got $40 million price of Bitcoin in a hack on Binance, how the leading crypto alternate might perhaps perhaps even have incentivized miners to reorganize the blocks, and what the likelihood says about the game thought of Bitcoin. We protest about why Binance not straight away determined in opposition to making an are attempting to spin this route, and whether or not exchanges must mute, not straight away, are attempting to utilize reorgs straight away after alternate hacks with a belief to every undo the hack moreover deter future hackers. Plus, we protest about how this thought would have differed from the Ethereum onerous fork after the DAO and whether or not this implies that instant finality is preferable to probabilistic finality.

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Episode hyperlinks:

Tushar Jain: https://twitter.com/tusharjain_?lang=en

Multicoin Capital: https://multicoin.capital

Binance’s announcement about the hack: https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028031711

Bitcoin core contributor Jeremy Rubin’s recommendation to are attempting the reorg: https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/jam/1125919526485254144

CZ’s Periscope AMA after the hack: https://twitter.com/binance/jam/1125959459782553600

CZ’s resolution not to diagram the reorg: https://twitter.com/cz_binance/jam/1125996194734399488

CZ tweeting about the controversy that resulted: https://twitter.com/cz_binance/jam/1126088279261007875?s=20

Jeremy’s express after the controversy over his recommendation of a reorg: https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/jam/1126391126619971585?s=20