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MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says (slashdot.org)

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Doesn't sound a huge deal different to High Frequency Trading, and Wall Street nobheads fall over themselves to exploit that.

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[–] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

Sounds to me that the difference is they exploited a bug to get private information in order to game the bots.

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