How a $64M hack changed the fate of Ethereum, Bitcoin's closest competitor

Sunday, August 28, 2016 - 08:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Picture this: A thief steals millions of dollars by hacking into an investment fund, and the whole theft is undone with a simple software update. That is, in effect, what happened recently at Ethereum, an upstart digital currency platform second only to Bitcoin in dollar value.

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