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I don't think most people in HN are seeing the real story here. This is not another harmless stunt like left-pad to make us all wag our fingers at the Node comm
by tboyd47 8y ago
I don't think most people in HN are seeing the real story here. This is not another harmless stunt like left-pad to make us all wag our fingers at the Node community. This is a coordinated, targeted attack on a popular Bitcoin wallet software to steal private keys using a popular open source library and NPM as an attack vector.
This is potentially the biggest Bitcoin heist since MTGox and the biggest news in Bitcoin all year. The last time BitPay got scammed they lost 5,000 BTC and that was back in 2015. I wouldn't be surprised if this is causing the current mass sell-off. Does anyone know how to find real-time transaction volume stats broken down by client, country, etc.?
- danso 8y agoMost people on HN may not be Bitcoin investors. More HN people are probably programmers who depend on open source.