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Re:Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century by grubles on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:17PM (#15285965)
"On Wednesday 19th July, 2017 a bug found in the multi-signature wallet ("multi-sig") code used as part of Parity Wallet software was exploited by parties unknown. As of the time of writing, three wallet accounts holding large balances of ETH have been compromised and the balances moved into accounts held by the attacker."

https://blog.ethcore.io/the-multi-sig-hack-a-postmortem/

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Re:Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century by StronglyTyped on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:30PM (#15286108)
Parity is a 3rd-party wallet application and is not Ethereum.
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Re:Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century by grubles on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:12PM (#15287256)
Parity accounts for roughly 5,000 of all Ethereum nodes (of which there is no "official" "1st-party" implementation) [0]. As a result of being so popular, Parity users were collectively robbed of $30,000,000 of Ether due to the multisignature (typically used to secure funds versus single-signature-required transacting) smart contract bug.

[0]https://www.ethernodes.org/network/1

[1]https://www.coindesk.com/30-million-ether-reported-stolen-pa...

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