White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug
Prior discussion of this incident (and the $2M bounty) here on Hacker News:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30289240" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30289240</a><p>My (I&#x27;m the hacker) article &#x2F; post-mortem this blog post is referring to:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.saurik.com&#x2F;optimism.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.saurik.com&#x2F;optimism.html</a><p>At the time of this last getting traction a few days ago, some people were sad that the title of my article and the discussion that resulted focused more on the bug instead of the bounty (which my article gets into near the end as part of some high-level thoughts on ethics), which is maybe why I am suddenly seeing this appear here again this morning (as this news article is instead focussing on the bounty angle)?<p>FWIW, the $2M bounty--which was actually listed as $2,000,042 (as they wanted it to sort higher on the list at Immenufi, lol)--was potentially (none of us realized this at the time I &quot;won&quot;, and I am honestly still not 100% sure of it now, though I haven&#x27;t yet come across any counter-examples) the largest single bug bounty payout ever (...though, by only $42 ;P).