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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by panarky on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:31AM (#30189050)
> Could be that the Wormhole team spotted the bug, patched it, but the attacker got to it before the patch could be rolled out.

It's a dark forest. Many predators who are smarter, faster and better connected than you are silently watching, ready to exploit your mistakes and ignorance for their profit.

Dark Forest -> https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest

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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by motoxpro on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:24AM (#30190043)
Ugh this is the coooolest thing ever to see the ideas in that book come to life.
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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by edf13 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:04AM (#30190326)
Huh? Why didn’t he use flashbots to avoid the mempool???

https://docs.flashbots.net/

His super-devs may not be so clued up after all

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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by T0Bi on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:25AM (#30190454)
He didn't need to since the actual attack happened on Solanas side. The Ethereum transaction was completely legit.
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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by edf13 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:41AM (#30190552)
No - I’m referring to the comment above regarding some LP tokens…
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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by xearl on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:32AM (#30191619)
was flashbots a thing back in aug-2020? i think they only launched a few months later.
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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by TimJRobinson on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:52PM (#30202214)
Flashbots wasn't around when this was written. It's relatively new.
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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by ComodoHacker on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:18AM (#30190408)
Insider leak seems more likely to me.
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