An independent examiner has revealed shocking details surrounding the inner workings of Celsius – a crypto lender that filed for bankruptcy in July 2022. The examiner claimed that Celsius did not operate by the business model that it presented to customers. He likened it to a Ponzi scheme, much like FTX – a company that happened to have used the same accounting software: QuickBooks. The Truth About CEL Token Per a filing from examiner Shoba Pillay on Tuesday, Celsius had…
Underflow Attacks
Understanding Overflow and Underflow Attacks on Smart Contracts
One of the best outcomes of blockchain is smart contracts, a computer protocol that facilitates, verifies, and sometimes implements a contract or negotiation. Smart contracts' exciting uses are record keeping in healthcare, real estate, property ownership, insurance, and voting systems. Despite the preference for smart contracts, one cannot claim that it is a fully secure system. Any unexpected and unwanted elements in a smart contract can have enormous consequences. For example, a bug in a smart contract may trigger it…
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