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Copy-Paste Error Sends $36M In Crypto To Wrong Wallet
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Capture date15 November 2024
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“We f**ked up big time,” Daniel Hwang, one of the Juno (CRYPTO: JUNO) blockchain validators, told CoinDesk on Friday.
What Happened: A copy-paste error resulted in $36 million worth of JUNO crypto tokens getting transferred to the wrong wallet on Wednesday.
Programmers incorrectly pasted the wrong destination address into the blockchain’s Proposal 20 code. More than 120 validators failed to notice the error, which resulted in the incorrect transfer.
Proposal 20 was passed last week after 71% of the blockchain community voted in favor of it. The proposal sought to revoke the tokens from “Juno whale” Takumi Asano, accused …
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