A technical glitch in a crypto marketplace has just made some cryptocurrency users tens of millions of dollars richer â and the marketplace founder’s threats have ignited a debate about the rules of digital money in an authority-less world.
Compound, a popular cryptocurrency platform, last week put out what should have been a routine update to the code that governs users’ transactions. However, the update contained a bug that mistakenly sent up to $89 million worth of crypto tokens into some users’ accounts.
