While here on Steemit people are going rogue about somebody hijacking their CPU power with browser mining (which is obviously not true) real people have real problems.
After solving a bug for multisig wallets on Ethereum, the developers realized the patch allegedly introduced another bug, which made one developer actually kill all the multisig wallets, in a "suicidal" operation.
Guess what? There was money in those wallets. Loads of money. Up to 300 million dollars.
I first found out about this by an email sent by Viewly this morning, which apparently lost 1399 ETH in this so-called exploit, or almost 420.000 USD. Then I read the news and got proof that the bug was actually real. It's hard to believe it's real, mind you, but hell, it looks like you can "accidentally" delete 300 millions dollars just like that.
Another convincing proof that human ignorance / stupidity is far worse than human greed.
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