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by tripplyons 297 days ago
It is also the same address on many forks of Ethereum, which has led to some strange circumstances when Optimism sent tens of millions of dollars to a smart contract address on the wrong blockchain, and a hacker was able to create a smart contract they controlled using the same address on the blockchain it was accidentally sent to and steal the funds.
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Bug or feature. Could it have been a transfer of funds organized to look like a hack?
Do you have a link to read more about this?
https://gov.optimism.io/t/message-to-optimism-community-from...

I've never seen a corporate announcement whipsaw from technical incident report to tentative job offer to a threat paraphrasing the IRA before but I guess that's because I don't spend time in the cryptoasset community.