Before Brink hired him, Eugene had already quietly disclosed two Bitcoin Core bugs: a block stalling issue pre-v22.0 and an addrman integer overflow in mid-2024. The disk-filling DoS he fixed in v30.0 was triggerable by just sending invalid blocks with no connection required. When someone says they write everything by hand for security reasons, and they've actually found the bugs that prove why, that's worth paying attention to.
Before Brink hired him, Eugene had already quietly disclosed two Bitcoin Core bugs: a block stalling issue pre-v22.0 and an addrman integer overflow in mid-2024. The disk-filling DoS he fixed in v30.0 was triggerable by just sending invalid blocks with no connection required. When someone says they write everything by hand for security reasons, and they've actually found the bugs that prove why, that's worth paying attention to.