Re:Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack
by meowkit on Sunday May 16, 2021 @05:47PM
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In the future I think smart contracts will be standardized - these kinds of things won’t happen unless you’re trying something new. If that’s the case there will probably be services/testnets to properly vet it before launching on a mainnet.
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Re:Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack
by IncRnd on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:06PM
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> these kinds of things won’t happen unless you’re trying something new.
Unfortunately, that's probably not going to be what occurs. Even today, there are constantly bugs discovered and fixed, some critical, that have been latent in systems for decades - as in since the last century.
The recent FragAttacks against WiFi systems come to mind.
Re:Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack
by benplumley on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:08AM
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A bug-free version of ProfitSharingRewardPool is much more plausible than a bug-free version of WiFi, or SSL, because the former is less than 1000 lines of code and apparently had an unintended $10M bug bounty.
Re:Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack
by IncRnd on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:58AM
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We were dicussing errors in smart contracts not just errors specific to ProfitSharingRewardPool. Your comment is correct about ProfitSharingRewardPool but is incorrect about smart contracts. That goes to show that errors happen all the time.