Ethereum Bug Discovery Averts Exchange Issues
A bug discovered last month could have potentially emptied exchange accounts holding digital tokens used to power the ethereum-based distributed application Golem. However, due to the nature of the bug, it could also have been used on other ethereum tokens listed at the exchange. That's because it used the platform's ERC-20 standard, a feature that has won advocates in the exchange sector due to its ability to reduce the time it takes exchanges to add new coins. However, a Golem supporter and a GNT holder found the bug on 18th March and reported it to the developer team before it could be....
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