A single person once minted over 184 BILLION Bitcoins
In 2010 someone exploited a bug in Bitcoin's code and generated 184,467,440,737 BTC in a single transaction on a blockchain that was only supposed to have 21 million total supply
Satoshi and the developers caught it within 5 hours and pushed Bitcoin's first ever emergency fork to erase the transaction
🏴☠️ Europol and FBI took down the SocksEscort proxy network – press release
Operation Lightning: 34 domains seized, 23 servers confiscated, and $3,500,000 in cryptocurrency frozen.
The network infected home routers with malware and sold access to scammers – for hacking crypto wallets and hiding their location. Since 2020, 369,000 IP addresses across 163 countries have passed through it.
Examples of victims: ▪ A New York resident lost $1,000,000 in cryptocurrency. ▪ A company from Pennsylvania lost $700,000. ▪ US military personnel suffered losses of $100,000.
The operation involved: FBI, IRS, Europol, Eurojust, police forces of Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Romania.