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An interesting quirk in Ethereum is that a contract address is determined by deployer address + nonce. So, you can send ETH to a contract that does not exist, t
by Stevvo 1y ago
An interesting quirk in Ethereum is that a contract address is determined by deployer address + nonce. So, you can send ETH to a contract that does not exist, then later deploy a contract there and recover it.
- tripplyons 1y agoIt is also the same address on many forks of Ethereum, which has led to some strange circumstances when Optimism sent tens of millions of dollars to a smart contract address on the wrong blockchain, and a hacker was able to create a smart contract they controlled using the same address on the blockchain it was accidentally sent to and steal the funds.
- trhway 1y agoBug or feature. Could it have been a transfer of funds organized to look like a hack?
- hiatus 1y agoDo you have a link to read more about this?
- maxbond 1y agohttps://gov.optimism.io/t/message-to-optimism-community-from-wintermute/2595 https://gov.optimism.io/t/message-to-optimism-community-from... I've never seen a corporate announcement whipsaw from technical incident report to tentative job offer to a threat paraphrasing the IRA before but I guess that's because I don't spend time in the cryptoasset community.