R.I.P: Crypto’s Infinite Money Glitch Just Got Patched
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You already know that one Australian dude who found an infinite cash glitch on a sure kind of ATM?
The place, so long as a sure collection of withdrawal requests had been made between 12am-1am at evening, it wouldn’t be debited from his account?
All he needed to do was go to an ATM as soon as an evening, kind in a couple of numbers, hit the massive inexperienced withdrawal button — and BAM!
Cash in his pockets.
Yeah, effectively — that is kinda just like the crypto model of that:
A handful of airdrop farmers just lately found the net equal of that ‘massive inexperienced withdrawal button,’ within the far reaches of the web.
The button in query was the ‘remark’ button on sure Github code repositories.
See, these farmers realized that some Web3 tasks not solely airdropped crypto as a reward to their early customers — but in addition to their early contributors.
And that these ‘contributions’ had been tracked and quantified by the quantity of feedback every individual had left on a crypto venture’s Github repository.
What’d they do subsequent?
We are able to’t make sure, but when we needed to guess, we’d wager it went a little bit one thing like this:
They wrote a chunk of code that…
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Recognized a bunch of crypto tasks
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Discovered their Github repos
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Hit ‘em with a bunch of feedback routinely
Excellent news/unhealthy information (relying on the place you stand):
This airdrop glitch now not works.
Initiatives have gotten clever to the tactic and restricted the quantity of feedback that may be left on anybody Github repo.
R.I.P. 🙏
