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oneoff786 · 4 years ago
> The bug caused a misplacement of decimal points when refunding pavladiv.near’s USN. Instead of returning 4.9995 USN (about $5), the smart contract bug minted 4.9995 trillion USN

Don’t worry guys, we fixed the regex in our currency conversion code, so your money will be fine now.

Mo3 · 4 years ago
.. and we did so in a “decentralized” manner. Because we’re the Decentral Bank, of course, and everything is possible if you believe in it, including arbitrarily modifying and fixing bugs in “immutable” constructs in a centralized manner. Thank god we didn’t have to halt and roll back the blockchain again, that always forces Joe to put in decentralized overtime.

These people are slowly but surely building a shitty carbon copy of the regular financial system and don’t even realize it.

aaaaaaaaata · 4 years ago
The ones doing that are getting fucked. The headlines are here weekly.

How does this keep being repeated?

Is Loopring doing a shit carbon copy of the existing financial system?

How about FTX? You can claim some of the same bad characteristics, but certainly not the same systemic weaknesses, and frankly, types of disrespect.

jwitthuhn · 4 years ago
It's always some mundane detail like a decimal point in the wrong place.
simmerup · 4 years ago
So they destroyed someone’s coins because they can’t code.

What a joke. So much for code is the contract.

mrjin · 4 years ago
Worse than that. If they are really decentralized, how come they can ever destroy somebody else's coins?
jackblemming · 4 years ago
The icing on the cake is their name is Decentral Bank. What a joke.
killingtime74 · 4 years ago
Crypto has the worst parts of regular finance without the safeguards
Anunayj · 4 years ago
and this project seems to have the worst part of crypto without the decentralization.
randomhodler84 · 4 years ago
Yes. And this is precisely it’s benefit. This is by design. Safe guards are artificial, and ultimately distort markets. Extremely volatility is present right now, because this asset class is so new and poorly understood.

Some of us want to play with the safety off. Life is a dark forest. We pretend it isn’t with “safeguards” but they only mask its true nature.

Rainymood · 4 years ago
Very decentralized, until we don't like it anymore, then very centralized.
senttoschool · 4 years ago
"Code is law". LOL. As a software dev, I would never trust any code as the law. Nothing is ever fool-proof.
bmilleare · 4 years ago
Putting the central in decentral since '22.

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mrjin · 4 years ago
Oh well, de-centralizing by centralizing. Catch-22.
ejanus · 4 years ago
Do they do unit test at all?