That'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.
Makes 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?
It'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."
I wonder how much Aphyr charges for a Jespon audit
I look forward to reading that report!
Yes, 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.
I'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.