Austin Griffith Demonstrates How Fast Bots Can Drain Weak Ethereum Keys
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The Ethereum Foundation’s Austin Griffith put about $1 behind an easy-to-guess private key, and bots tried to take it within seconds. Austin Griffith of the Ethereum Foundation put about $1 in an Ethereum wallet whose private key was the number 6969 , and bots went after it almost at once. “As soon as the dollar landed, there were three transactions in the mempool pending trying to steal it,” Griffith said on Oct. 21 on Uneasy Money, the Unchained show he co-hosts.
Source: Unchained
