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Whitehat Helps Recover $2M in ETH Stuck Since 2016 ICO
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$1,732.98
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$5,519,655,656.01
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Decrypt Editorial(03:32 PM UTC)
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- A whitehat helped return $2 million worth of ETH frozen since HongCoin's 2016 ICO.
- HongCoin’s team used the developer’s fix to unlock refunds that had been bloced because of a smart contract bug.
- Such recoveries are rare but may unlock dormant value, Decrypt was told.
An Ethereum developer helped recover more than 1,000 ETH, worth about $2 million, from a failed 2016 crypto project…
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