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Sleuth ZachXBT Blasts Ripple’s Cheap $250K Payout for 18T XRP Bug

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What happened

The renowned blockchain sleuth criticized the reward the Ripple Ledger Foundation gave Cayden Liao and Veria Labs after a bug that, if exploited, would have let someone issue 18 trillion XRP in a single transaction, 184 times the original capped supply.

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