This morning I was reading news on bitcoin.com, and I was shocked when I found a press release with the headline You Can Now Earn 200% on Your investments with ETHx2.io. That is a phenomenal profit, and what is EYHx2? It got my undivided attention, and I started to read their just released newsflash.
Bitcoin.com was the best crypto news site of the year 2019, and it is one of the cornerstones of information sources in the cryptocurrency world.
So it came quite behind the trees when I realized there is a scam project in their press releases. That revelation gave a thought to my mind instantly, how the fu.. this was possible? The first thing i did was inform the press of ot the news giant.
ETHx2 fked up their moment in the press release because their website is full of mistakes and lapses. They are so numerous that I have to write a sequel to this blog post if I mention all of them. So here comes the best few, in my opinion.
There was a link to etherscan.io, a good thing usually when examining a site, but not in this case. When checking the contract section, the yellow warning tells possible bugs. You cannot have them in audited code. After that, I checked the place where the contract security audit should be, and there was nothing, KABOOM. The last evidence is the "safeguardFunds" function, in the actual contract source code, that they can use to withdraw all the assets.
After the etherscan, the audition part deserves checking. When following the link to the audits company webpage, the truth hits me again straight to the face; smartauditpro.com is fake too. The only good thing about it was that it was even a worse quality site than their etherx2 friends have.The company claims that they have made 60 audits, but not even one leads anywhere when backtracking the links.
Talking about the audits, sometimes even multiple audits cannot find the actual vulnerabilities. It happened with harvest.finance, the company that I mentioned in the last blog post. The flash loan based market manipulation fraud hit the platform and topped up its masterminds wallet by 24 million USD. If you want the full details of this incident, here is an astoundingly excellent and accurate blog post of it: https://news.bitcoin.com/you-can-now-earn-200-on-your-investments-with-ethx2-io/Both of these two different kinds of cryptocurrency scams raise thoughts in my mind. Why is market manipulation almost acceptable in the crypto communities? It is a grave crime in the real world, and if you get caught in it, you face severe punishment. When harvest.finances crook filled his pockets with millions, the comments were not blaming, but more like that the thief was "using the system," or "he was capable user", in the attacker's defense, I have to say, that could have taken a lot more if he wanted, 400 million USD. But because the reason we don't know, he didn't. Maybe the reason was that his wrist got tired of clicking the mouse for 7 minutes what he did collecting 45 million. But the victim of this "economic attack" harvest.finance, did something unbelievable. They let everyone know that they know the attacker. Here is the picture of their comments. In this case, they certainly did know his face.
The second thought was if anything can be almost accepted, forgiven, or even rewarded with hundreds of thousands of dollars, what are we to expect next?
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