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Jepsen is most certainly not "tearing apart crypto" nor is that even remotely the intention of this post. From the very first paragraph: >"This work was funde
by bogomipz 5y ago
Jepsen is most certainly not "tearing apart crypto" nor is that even remotely the intention of this post.
From the very first paragraph:
>"This work was funded by Radix Tokens (Jersey) Limited, and conducted in collaboration with RDX Works Ltd ..."
The post also links to RDX Works Ltd's blog post on this collaboration. Also in the first paragraph.
- wmf 5y agoThat's the best part: they paid him to throw such savage shade on their blockchain. One transaction per second, one million transactions per second, what's the difference? It's just the roadmap, man.
- raphlinus 5y agoMakes you wonder why they ended the collaboration in November and didn't continue to retain him to validate that the new stuff lives up to its claims, doesn't it?
- Mleekko 5y agoIt's not a secret at all. The response from the Radix CEO: "We re-used the part of his testing harness, and then re-created the other critical tests to determine if the errors detected where still present. He is fantastically expensive and booked 3-6 months in advance on average. We'll definite re-deploy this kind of testing again, but we'll save it for another bigger release, rather than a patch where the identified errors can be tested against."
- bogomipz 5y agoYes, generally you pay third parties for their consulting services which is exactly what RDX Works did here. Are you familiar with the history of Jepsen tests? Because this report is a pretty standard analysis of his. I think if you read some of the other distributed systems analyses he has done this would be quite clear. Your take away that this was some sort of a "shade throwing" event is pretty bizarre.
- wmf 5y agoI'm familiar with Jepsen. Most consultants may not be willing to lie, but they'll take care not to mention what you pay them not to mention. If this work was done by anyone else they'd probably say something like "performance was not evaluated because the contract only covers correctness", but no, Aphyr has to dissect the false marketing in detail. And Radix had the balls to hire him presumably knowing that this is what he does.