But seriously, I can't stop chuckling over this. And I truly would love to know whether @dan has recovered from ROFL'ing already.
The digital wallet company Parity is warning users that a large volume of Ethereum funds have effectively been frozen after code contributor devops199 claims to have accidentally deleted the library needed to use multi-signature wallets (those that require more than one signature to move funds) created after July 20th. Devops triggered a long-unpatched bug that turned Parity's wallet contract into a standard multi-signature wallet, making every wallet "suicide" and erase the guiding library code.
Estimates range between $150m and 280m worth of $ETH.
That is a whole lot of frozen assets, to be still frozen after more than 100 days since the bug initially was triggered. Made only more difficult to unfreeze by the nature of smart-contracts.
More information over at Medium
