Society & Culture

How Claude Found Zcash's Counterfeiting Bug

Unchained by Laura Shin

Jun 10, 202615:44Society & Culture

For three years, a counterfeiting bug sat live inside Zcash's shielded pool, and no one noticed. Then Taylor Hornby pointed a custom Claude Opus 4.8 agent at the code, and it surfaced the flaw in Orchard that had gone un...

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How Claude Found Zcash's Counterfeiting Bug is an episode from Unchained by Laura Shin. For three years, a counterfeiting bug sat live inside Zcash's shielded pool, and no one noticed. Then Taylor Hornby pointed a custom Claude Opus 4.8 age...

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Published Jun 10, 2026, 15:44 long, audio available.

How Claude Found Zcash's Counterfeiting Bug

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