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Benzinga
Benzinga
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Adrian Zmudzinski

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Infinite ethereum bug discovered in optimism by hacker behind iphone jaibreaks - The Untold Story

Jay Freeman — the core developer of iOS Jailbreak and Cydia tools and founder of decentralized virtual private network solution Orchid (CRYPTO: OXT) — discovered a bug in the Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) scalability solution Optimism that would enable attackers to create infinite Ether.

What Happened: Freeman pointed out the vulnerability in a Thursday Twitter thread in which he also disclosed that he won a $2,000,042 bounty for its discovery.

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