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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by Scoundreller on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:20PM (#19333664)
I’m a bit sympathetic to their loss.

They were supposed to use 0x notation for a particular hex value, but the software always worked without it.

Then some tiny x.x.1 patch upgrade changed the functionality, now requiring the 0x, without documenting the change.

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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by tim333 on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:33AM (#19336230)
It's scary that with crypto such things can make it so hard to get your money back. I know there was talk of fixing it with a fork to the Ethereum chain one day. Not sure what happened there.
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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by Scoundreller on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:05AM (#19338071)
They did that once. I guess this exchange didn’t have enough pull to change the whole “code is law” principle.
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