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by Sargos 1548 days ago
>Does this have implications for blockchain as a whole or was this company just dumb?

They were just dumb. The Ronin bridge where this money was stolen from wasn't decentralized at all and wouldn't even be recognized as a blockchain by even moderately experienced user. It was just a 5 of 9 multi-sig where the security was very poor and susceptible to social engineering. This was akin to a company keeping 100 gold bars in the closet by the bathroom and doesn't say anything about technology or things like DeFi or smart contracts.

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> It was just a 5 of 9 multi-sig where the security was very poor and susceptible to social engineering.

Taking this a step further, the article mentioned that 4 of the 5 were under one companies control and compromised together. It wouldn't shock me to learn that all 4 had the same access rules, and as such all were accessible if one was, essentially reducing the 5 of 9 to 2 of 9.

2 of 5.