Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake

Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by powerhour on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:32AM (#32319907)

I don't remember Gibson but I wonder if we can get to the point that outlaw hackers limit damage to the wealthy and send "refunds" to the exploited. That would be worth celebrating.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by rchaud on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:14PM (#32320620)

That would be the part at which these books go from sci-fi to straight up fantasy.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by Ekaros on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:17PM (#32321567)

I would say that anyone who have enough time and money to investing in crypto is by definition wealthy.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by jeffgreco on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:43PM (#32321945)

I wish that were true. The Celsius and Voyager fallout has shown otherwise:

https://blog.mollywhite.net/celsius-letters/ https://blog.mollywhite.net/voyager-letters/

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by Ekaros on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:46PM (#32321990)

Only read voyager letters, but those sums listed point towards people being very wealthy.

I could see point if we were talking of hundreds, but we are talking of sums of over hundred of thousand. Which to me is very wealthy on global scale at least.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by wiredfool on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:15PM (#32323045)

My kitchen contractor was in crypto -- when we were talking a few months ago he was down 20% but waiting for it to come back. That was pre meltdown.

It's not just the wealthy, it's the cab driver giving crypto tips now.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by drc500free on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:07PM (#32323642)

I mean, sure, in the sense that a janitor in the US is wealthy when considered globally.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by dagw on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:51PM (#32324731)

is by definition wealthy.

Or at least they where before investing in crypto...

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by cynusx on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:05PM (#32320490)

Like communism, that idealism fails on the part where the one stealing a lot of money (or appropriating it in communism for the greater good) has to actually give it back to somebody that is not himself

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