Endowments are independently run and the last thing the money men would do is give the admins or academics a say, or they’d fritter it all in short order, like how Larry Summers lost Harvard a cool billion dollars through ill-judged investment strategies for its operating funds.
Why would this prove the necessity of regulations? This occurred within the realm of regulations, not in the wild west. FTX.US is a regulated entity in the US, and FTX Intl wasn't available to US customers. Doesn't this prove that calamity happens even despite the regulations
Note that the technical problems made it more complicated and messy to reproduce the build, but didn't outright prevent it. Mainly the executable binaries were reproducible, but other metadata in the disk image changed each time. https://github.com/zcash/mpc/issues/2
As you know, my complaints with regard to the reproducible build were not that the scripts themselves didn't work - indeed I fixed an issue related to that - but that the direct dependencies of the build were both high entropy (e.g. very specific nightly builds of a niche Linux distribution) and themselves not at all reproducible.
Your reply here is highly misleading, even lying by omission.
Even more recent changes have made this better too. The research in the paper only goes up to Apr. 2017 or so. Since then, the "recent zone" has been a) reduced from 5 days to 3 days, and b) more recent zone mixins are included. We haven't quantified what improvement that makes, but it should help.
This isn't a good explanation. The result of this research is actually that even if you opted in to privacy during mid 2016 to jan 2017, you wouldn't have gotten it.
