Electroneum (ETN) saw a robust price increase after the project patched up the “burning bug” inherited from Monero (XMR). It allows a malicious actor to fund an exchange balance multiple times, so the platform ends up owning invalid coins marked for attempted double spending. In the meantime, the exchange balance could be traded for other assets, leaving the operator to shoulder the losses. So far, there has been no report of someone managing to exploit the bug for Electroneum or Monero.
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As exchanges opened wallets and trading renewed, the ETN price moved up from its traditionally low levels, rising...
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