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Re:How smart contract upgrades fail in practice on Friday September 07, 2018 @03:21PM (#17936947)
Did you mean "cannot do"?

It does seem like a tradeoff.

To clarify for those not familiar: Google Upvote is a management server for the enforcement agents that run on the endpoints, like Bit9 or Google's own Santa.

It's good that they released this interface, because Santa was difficult to configure manually.

Re:Our suite of Ethereum security tools on Saturday March 24, 2018 @04:04AM (#16665451)
Yea, Solidity is not the only language of code that compiles to EVM bytecode. There are other languages that also do so: Serpent, LLL, and Viper. "Better" is subjective, but it looks like Viper is intended to be more audit-able. But it's also still a work in progress.

Serpent and LLL are apparently lower-level than Solidity.

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@balzss/the-many-languages-of-e...

Re:Heavy lifting with McSema 2.0 on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:35PM (#16217407)
Decompiler authors should take a look at the library, Remill, released with McSema 2.0. It lifts more of x86-64 than RetDec or fcd currently do.