I've seen several projects like this pop up recently and all of them were mostly focused on a particular coffee roast. The problem with that is that it gets outdated very fast - typical roast exists for a month or so. What I like here is the focus on roasters and coffee shops, as they last longer.
Somewhat surprised asymmetric organocatalysis was awarded over asymmetric photocatalysis or photoredox chemistry. Photocatalysis is newer, has more demonstrated use cases, and holds more promise.
Perhaps one of the greatest Arabic, Middle Eastern, and Islamic contributions to world literature, the many stories of the Arabian Nights, in their various forms and genres, have influenced literature, music, art, and cinema, and continue to do so until our present day.
But this sure surprised me:Pierrick Gaudry, from Lorraine University, was able to break the Ethereum-based smart contract encryption in only 20 minutes using nothing more than an average desktop computer and free, publicly available software. Gaudry estimates more modern equipment and sophisticated techniques could crack the encryption in only 10 minutes."
Poor programming and cryptography by the contract developers is always going to be the biggest weakness of smart contracts. This one was developed by a government entity so the quality issue is not really surprising...
> It was developed in-house by the Moscow Department of Information Technology
The developers claim [1] they were only using a weak private key during a "trial period" which doesn't really make sense. Who releases a different public/private key scheme before launching into production?
If the development team doesn't hire outside security testing or request public review - to test the real software - then it's pretty useless. Their response notes a meetup in Moscow in Sept (which is the same month as the election?) which seems like a strange requirement if they were expecting solid public feedback.
