(a) we had a particularly type of logging turned on
(b) do to a bug in a maintenance process, Cloudflare accidentally routed logs to one of their shut-down servers
(c) this triggered their DDOS systems
Ok; let's say that your goal is to build the most ambitious plausible DeFi ecosystem: one that could end up with a substantial fraction of the world's economy on it.
a) challenge trials fix this
b) safety can be determined with ~1000 people; either you think COVID death >> 0.10% or the whole thing is stupid
c) efficacy was strongly expected
d) fine pay for 40k, it's a tiny fraction of the delay cost
3) On politics:
Both parties get failing grades here. They both flip flopped (remember the immigration wars a year and a half ago?). We transitioned from incompetent to poorly-thought-out.