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  1. Percentage of currency by belthize · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Hackers Stole Over $20 Million From Misconfigured Ethereum Clients (bleepingcomputer.com)

    The first thing I wondered was what percentage of the currency is that.

    According to this site: https://etherscan.io/stat/supp...

    The total market cap of etherium is $52B so $20M is about .2%. (1/5th of 1% in case the '.' is hard to see) of all etherium in circulation.

    There's about $1.6T US dollars in circulation, so as a percentage of total money in circulation that $20M etherium heist is the equivalent of a $6B USD heist.

    Admittedly an odd way of looking at it but it's hard to imagine somebody making off with $6B due to something as mundane as an RPC vulnerability.

  2. $160k? Bzzt. Nope. Try again. by Zocalo · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Suspicious Event Hijacks Amazon Traffic For 2 hours, Steals Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com)

    Try following the "Out" transactions. Eventually (five or six hops) you're going to end up at this wallet, which currently contains over $17 MILLION USD of ETH. Not bad for a couple of hours work...