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Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch

Jon 37

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People: We don't trust banks, we want to entrust our money to rules set out in a computer program, which are impossible to bypass. Normally the rules would be impossible to change, but the computer program we're using has this amazing new feature: a software update routine! If the majority of people using this computer program agree, we can upgrade it to a new computer program with different rules!

Later: Oh no! The computer program had a bug in it's software update routine, now we can't update it! Whoever would have thought that a computer program that hadn't been reviewed or properly tested would have a bug in it?!!!

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