Ellie

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Oh, thanks YouTube, this is a great playlist suggestion.

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Chat GPT helped me with this one, though it is a stretch. Imagine that each mailman was like a Bitcoin node. There might be a few bad mailmen out there that like to steal people's packages, or look through their packages. So long as there aren't too many of these bad mailmen, they can't cause much harm because the post office will catch their behavior. But if 51% of all mailmen start acting bad, then the post office loses control and these bad mailmen take over. And now no one uses the mail, just how like a 51% attack on Bitcoin could make people stop using Bitcoin.

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It's a bit of a stretch, but you could have an analogy where a flashloan is like shipping insurance. Either your package gets delivered (your flash loan executes successfully) or you get your money back (your flash loan failed).

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I don't quite follow why courier diversity doesn't fit here? (A bit of a stretch) Different couriers (proposers) offer their services. Online shops generally choose a single courier company to deliver their goods (e.g. a proposer getting a winning execution ticket). In your case, the lost shirt was like a proposer that failed to propose during their slot. 😀

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Alright, people have some good examples, but I'm still convinced 95% of crypto things can be related to the mail and/or post office.

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AMMs are like shipping fees. Depending on what you are shipping (a book vs. a piano) you will have to pay different fees (like the different fees on different pairs of tokens on Uni). Plus, shipping fees will vary depending on where you are shipping from or to (shipping within the same city is cheap, analogous to a pool with lots of liquidity, vs. shipping to another country is expensive, like a pool with low liquidity). ChatGPT helped me with this one. UTXOs are like what's inside an envelope. If someone sends you a letter (a UTXO), you have to read (consume) the letter before you reply back (spend the UTXO). It's not any use to aggregate all your letters into an account because each letter is unique and related to its predecessor letter.

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There could be some analogies here, I think! SSF is like mail today - once you receive it you always have it. Reorgs would be like if the post office delivered your mail, and then came back later and demanded it back. BIP32 is like an address. The top level key is the country, followed by states as children. The states have cities as children, the cities have zip codes, etc. Eventually you end up with each leaf in the tree representing a specific address. Since this tree represents all the addresses that exist, you can derive a specific address using the root (country) + path.

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The post office gives you a preconf that your mail will eventually arrive at its destination (settle)

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That's a good one. 😀

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Alright, alright, that's a good one.

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Name a crypto-related technical concept that can't be explained using an analogy to mail. I'll wait.

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I do not want to turn on reactions, the X on the popup does not work, and it shows up every time I use my camera. This is new "automatically start using your phone as a camera when you join a meeting" setting.

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ChatGPT is getting better and better, but it still wasn't able to find which movie out all the ones ever made had a character say a specific phrase that I might have misremembered.

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That's how I was thinking someone would crack it! But I hoped someone would use AI to match the bounty's writing voice to my own writing voice based on other posts I've done. Being anonymous is really hard (if people have an incentive to figure out who you are)

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Also, I see someone contributed 25 USDC to the bounty - do I need to do anything for @netnose to claim it?

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Following up on this, it looks like this riddle has been solved and the @bountycaster bounty claimed! @netnose used the hash that was provided in the anoncast post and found it in a database, allowing him to decode that the author of the cast was @ellied, and claim the bounty of $128 USDC. (Important to note that this wasn't a vuln in anoncast or anything, it was only possible to solve using the breadcrumb hash that Ellie included in her cast.) Still, a nice bit of anon fun, and congrats to @netnose on the steak dinner! cc @linda

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@linda Can you help close this bounty since I wasn't the one who made it, technically? 😀

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@netnose figured it out! I completely didn't think of looking the hash up in a database. Doing anonymity is hard! https://basescan.org/tx/0x759d23b7327b6fb55a6ccc22928476832ea5839758891ecf0689b4bb199f66b6 @bountybot This bounty is complete.

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Yes, it’s me! 😍

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Hot take: Thieving is the second best skill (behind Woodcutting). Cool take: Agility is the worst skill.

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